Monday, January 12th 2009
Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 Motherboard Pictured
Following announcements by most motherboard manufacturers about their AM3 CPU compatibility lists, plans of motherboards based on the new DDR3-supportive platform socket have been coming to surface. After a list of eight motherboards by ASUS under the M4A and M4N series, Gigabyte's first motherboard based on the AM3 socket has been pictured. The GA-MA790FXT-UD5P is the company's first AMD motherboard that uses the Ultra Durable 3 construction, with 2-oz copper layered PCB, high-grade conductive polymer capacitors, and MOSFETs with lower RDS.
As the name suggests, this motherboard is based on the AMD 790FX chipset. It features two full-bandwidth PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots supporting ATI CrossfireX, four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting DDR3-1600+ MHz memory. The motherboard supports AM3 socket processors with TDP of up to 140W. A total of 10 SATA II ports are provided, six of which are routed to the SB750 southbridge, four to an additional SATA II controller. Other features are common with Gigabyte motherboards in its class, with high-quality 7.1 ch audio, two gigabit Ethernet connections, twelve USB 2.0 ports (8 external), and FireWire. Gigabyte is planning two more AM3 socket models: GA-MA770T-UD3P and GA-MA790X-UD4P based on the AMD 770 and 790X chipsets respectively.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
As the name suggests, this motherboard is based on the AMD 790FX chipset. It features two full-bandwidth PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots supporting ATI CrossfireX, four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting DDR3-1600+ MHz memory. The motherboard supports AM3 socket processors with TDP of up to 140W. A total of 10 SATA II ports are provided, six of which are routed to the SB750 southbridge, four to an additional SATA II controller. Other features are common with Gigabyte motherboards in its class, with high-quality 7.1 ch audio, two gigabit Ethernet connections, twelve USB 2.0 ports (8 external), and FireWire. Gigabyte is planning two more AM3 socket models: GA-MA770T-UD3P and GA-MA790X-UD4P based on the AMD 770 and 790X chipsets respectively.
33 Comments on Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 Motherboard Pictured
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The 790FX chipset should have 4 PCIe slots, 790X should have only 2...
Aren't these supposed to be triple channel capable? Seems odd that there's 4 DIMM slots. I'd rather see 6.
No, the 790FX has 32 PCI-Express 2.0 lanes to spare towards graphics, apart from other connections and its A-Link to the southbridge. So those 32 lanes go into making two x16 slots, or four slots that, when populated, arrange as x8, x8, x8, x8; or in 3 slot boards, as x16, x8, x8.
No, the K10.5 features a dual-channel memory controller, hence four DIMMs.
let the DRAGON OUT....
i guess they realized that it will be more economical to put 2 since most people that do crossfire only uses 2 cards