Monday, December 29th 2008
ASRock M3A790GXH AM3 Motherboard Pictured
Following ECS, ASRock will be one of the first ones to be out with an AM3 socket motherboard supporting the upcoming 45nm processors by AMD, as well as support for the newer DDR3 memory technology. The M3A790GXH-128M motherboard has been pictured by the guys at OCWorkbench. It is based on the AMD 790GX + SB750 chipset and features 128 MB of DDR3 Sideport graphics memory for the onboard Radeon HD 3300 IGP.
The most significant feature of this motherboard is support for up to 16 GB of DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory. What's even more interesting according to the specifications OCW listed, is that the motherboard supports a range of AM3, AM2+ as well as AM2 processors that include Sempron and Athlon64, while featuring only DDR3 memory slots. There are three PCI-Express x16 slots ,which depending on the devices installed, arrange in lane configurations of (x16, NC, x4) or (x8, x8, x4). The IGP provides output from DVI, D-Sub and audio-routed HDMI ports. The SB750 southbridge provides six SATA II channels. The board also integrates a high-grade 7.1 HD audio CODEC, the Realtek ALC 889, which comes with a rated SNR of 110 dB. Overall, the motherboard features a simplistic construction. The cooling isn't extravagant, with heatsinks for the chipset. The CPU is powered by a 4+1 phase power circuit whose MOSFETs have no heatsinks. Pricing and availability isn't known at this point in time.
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OCWorkbench
The most significant feature of this motherboard is support for up to 16 GB of DDR3 1333/1066/800 MHz memory. What's even more interesting according to the specifications OCW listed, is that the motherboard supports a range of AM3, AM2+ as well as AM2 processors that include Sempron and Athlon64, while featuring only DDR3 memory slots. There are three PCI-Express x16 slots ,which depending on the devices installed, arrange in lane configurations of (x16, NC, x4) or (x8, x8, x4). The IGP provides output from DVI, D-Sub and audio-routed HDMI ports. The SB750 southbridge provides six SATA II channels. The board also integrates a high-grade 7.1 HD audio CODEC, the Realtek ALC 889, which comes with a rated SNR of 110 dB. Overall, the motherboard features a simplistic construction. The cooling isn't extravagant, with heatsinks for the chipset. The CPU is powered by a 4+1 phase power circuit whose MOSFETs have no heatsinks. Pricing and availability isn't known at this point in time.
40 Comments on ASRock M3A790GXH AM3 Motherboard Pictured
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153129
But it says in mem specs as DDR2 1066, so bit confusing, may be egg typed it wrong.
AsRock or Jetway which one will OC more?
hell my 780a is only 8x/8x/8x and my 790FX was 8x/8x/8x/8x there are no budget boards with tri 8x pci-e
and just FYI $160 ain't budget mobo
AM3 will work in an Am2+ board that would make sense.
because they would have a combo memory controller.
AM2+ proc working in Am3 board??? makes no sense at all
first off the physical package wouldn't work I swore AMD stated that socket AM3 will be 938 pins rather than 940pins on AM2+
also Am2+ and Am2 procs lacking a DDR3 controller.
thats imposible unless they hacked the 790gx to have a built in memory controller