Thursday, August 19th 2010
MSI Readies New 870A Fuzion Power Edition
MSI is readying yet another socket AM3 motherboard that features the Lucid Hydra chip, called the 870A Fuzion Power Edition. MSI had earlier launched a motherboard with nearly the same features called the 870A Fuzion. The 'new' motherboard from MSI uses the AMD 770 northbridge with the SB850 southbridge, a confusing name. The Lucid Hydra LT22102 chip that lets you pair two different ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards in ATI+ATI, NVIDIA+NVIDIA, and ATI+NVIDIA configurations. What's new with this board, however, is that a few components have been relocated, and the CPU VRM has been upgraded to 10+1 phases with high-C capacitors.
Expansion slots include two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (full-bandwidth), three PCI-E x1, and one PCI. Connectivity includes 8-channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF connectors, USB 3.0 (one on the rear panel, one internal port), gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. With the SB850 southbridge the motherboard has six internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports. The pricing of this board is expected to be around the 170 EUR mark, which is about 45 EUR more than that of the 870A Fuzion.
Source:
SemiAccurate
Expansion slots include two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (full-bandwidth), three PCI-E x1, and one PCI. Connectivity includes 8-channel HD audio with optical and coaxial SPDIF connectors, USB 3.0 (one on the rear panel, one internal port), gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, and a number of USB 2.0 ports. With the SB850 southbridge the motherboard has six internal SATA 6 Gb/s ports. The pricing of this board is expected to be around the 170 EUR mark, which is about 45 EUR more than that of the 870A Fuzion.
25 Comments on MSI Readies New 870A Fuzion Power Edition
Where are the boards that use Lucid's higher-end chip for some 3 or 4-way mixing?
GTX480+HD5870
Then again a hd5970 + GTX 480 would be uber.
An AMD Mobo with Nvidia Sli capability......that makes what, about 3 available to choose from out of the dozens and dozens of AMD Mobo's on the market....:rolleyes:
Why Mobo manufacturers seem to think you should be limited to Crossfire rather than Sli when choosing an AMD CPU is indicative of rigging the market IMO......:rolleyes:
If Nvidia release the Dual GPU Fermi then it will be godlike teaming up with 5970
"Military class" OK MSI. OK
Then you will think the opposite :p :laugh:
Pretty snazzy heatsinks, though. :pimp:
Thats why i have a Phenom II 955 and a Radeon 4890 then is it?....
The point i was trying to make, which you so obviously missed, is that i would like the choice to have an Nvidia SLi setup without having to search high and low to find an AMD Mobo that supports it...as it is there are hardly any which do.
Is that clear enough for you....:rolleyes:
1.\ you get 32//32 PCI-E out of it.
2.\ 870 performs as fast as 890FX with a 5970 for instance.
3.\ all amd chipsets are the same on the NB side, the diffrence is:
IGP support
IGP Speed.
Pci-e Lanes.
there isnt any other diffrence, understand them fully to use lower end for higher end, and btw, its just like having a P55.....
People underestimate AMD NB..... they're good! very very good!
Sb's... good enough, major changes is happening 750 is okey 850 is pretty good. intel ahead on sb.
And I didnt buy anything else than nforce chipsets to the 5 series, 6 series was horrible, fixed up one for my friend, 3 rma's and got another chipset (amd) and later the e-tailer pulled most of the 6 series chipsets.
Colleagues having issues, work computers have issues...
They will earn money on SLI licence cost, unless hydra kills that.
good luck trying not to get squeezed by amd and intel nvidia, but how could they be joining in on the fusion stuff?
And doesn't matter about brand vs brand its not even a deciding factor. Most ppl who chose AMD already chose a camp and don't care about Phyx the bigger news is Lucid boosting graphics 30% in any configuration. (at least at ASUS )
And maybe they chose 870 to keep the cost down cause they dont have the same "deal" With lucid other companies do, or that what they chose cause they know it dosnt matter. So They cut it down to 2 PCIE and optimize it. After u fill those 2 slots thats it.
So if say MSI was to make a motherboard with four PCI-E slots could you put four 5970's in them or no?