Tuesday, August 13th 2013
GIGABYTE Readies Cost-effective Socket AM3+ Motherboard with FX-9590 Support
Only a select club of high-end socket AM3+ motherboards come with support for AMD's FX-9590 5.00 GHz eight-core processor, with a gargantuan 220W TDP, and even among some of them, support is 'unofficial,' and through use of beta BIOS (use of which is generally not covered by motherboard warranties). GIGABYTE plans to change that, with a new cost-effective motherboard with out of the box support for high-TDP AMD CPUs, such as the FX-9590, FX-9370, and FX-8770. Called GIGABYTE 970A-UD3P, the motherboard is built in the standard ATX (244 x 305 mm) form-factor.
The 970A-UD3P features an AM3+ CPU socket, with a 10-phase VRM tuned for high-TDP CPUs. It is based on AMD 970 + SB950 chipset. The CPU socket is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR3-2133 MHz memory; and the AMD 970 northbridge. The northbridge gives out the board's sole PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, and three other PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots; the other physical x16 slot is electrical x4, and wired to the southbridge. Two legacy PCI slots take seats. Storage connectivity includes six SATA 6 Gb/s ports. The board provides four USB 3.0 ports (two on the rear panel, two by header). 8-channel HD audio with optical SPDIF output, gigabit Ethernet, and a PS/2 combo port make for the rest of connectivity. The board is driven by AMI Aptio UEFI BIOS, backed by dual-UEFI. It wouldn't surprise us if GIGABYTE prices this board under $100.
The 970A-UD3P features an AM3+ CPU socket, with a 10-phase VRM tuned for high-TDP CPUs. It is based on AMD 970 + SB950 chipset. The CPU socket is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots, supporting up to 64 GB of dual-channel DDR3-2133 MHz memory; and the AMD 970 northbridge. The northbridge gives out the board's sole PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, and three other PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots; the other physical x16 slot is electrical x4, and wired to the southbridge. Two legacy PCI slots take seats. Storage connectivity includes six SATA 6 Gb/s ports. The board provides four USB 3.0 ports (two on the rear panel, two by header). 8-channel HD audio with optical SPDIF output, gigabit Ethernet, and a PS/2 combo port make for the rest of connectivity. The board is driven by AMI Aptio UEFI BIOS, backed by dual-UEFI. It wouldn't surprise us if GIGABYTE prices this board under $100.
20 Comments on GIGABYTE Readies Cost-effective Socket AM3+ Motherboard with FX-9590 Support
what was they thinking, however this may be a clever strategy. lets face it, no one spending $900 on a cpu will buy a $100 mobo. so I bet this is actually targeted at people buying 8350's and wanting an inexpensive board, knowing its designed for higher TDP.
Gigabyte has known about their mobo VRM circuit issues for several years and has consistently advised owners that the VRM issues were not an issue for Gigabyte and that they were NOT going to fix their AM3+ mobos. This new low feature mobo is a face saving effort as their other AM3+ mobos don't have a chance in Hell of running the FX-9590 or similar or even an well OC'd FX-8350, without VRM throttling.
Gigabyte will get someone to use this featureless mobo to achieve some high overclock and then sell a ton of them to the sheeple who don't know any better.
Some Enthusiasts are not chasing the best efficiency rating guys, some are after pure FPS and are not assed about economy yet dont have enough money to buy an intel top end system either, and some wanted more pciex lanes then intel provides(on lower boards), its horses for courses simples.
AMD Rules!! :rockout:
I got a feeling this isn't really for the 9590 etc.
for its price and proposed features I bet itll make a pretty good AM3+ LN2 board.
220W heater would take a while to heat up a room like yours. There is a reason why they make those little foot heaters at 1000-1500W and all... :toast:
This is good news for people thinking overclocking their FX processors.