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I'm not dumping, just watching and reading. I said my share on this stuff, now I'm pretty much shutting up about supposed performance and whatnot until the chip is out. After all, I'm kinda like chew, a huge AMD supporter but got disgruntled after much frustration and went intel this round. Though I didn't get more than an 'ok' average chip anyway, so I'm more than ready to upgrade to Deneb AM3 when it gets here and put my q6600 as a dedicated cruncher :)
I know, and I miss Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by chew*
People just have to stop taking this stuff so damned personal.
I'd be classified as an 'Intel guy" by most here but that would be them not seeing the XP1600 machine I built, or the 700mhz slot A machine that was my first "home built" machine, or the FX51 that was here and was a hell of a machine for it's time.
What board options are there for these chips at this point in time in the extreme cold department?
Has anyone seen any mobo companies putting out bios with support for Phenom 2?? I have a feeling we will see these cpus in December. Theres a couple companies in Europe already putting them up for preorder.......I dont know if I ever seen preorders go up 2 months in advanced?? i cant remember?
I think Asus, MSI, and DFI have released some bios updates, maybe others have already as well.
I been on the MSI site and I got the latest official but it doesnt say anything about Phenom 2 I guess the next one.......do the DFI and ASUS mention anything about Phenom 2 in the bios?Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
Not to sound s.l.o.w..but what do you mean...? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by chew*
Techreport posted this...Quote:
Originally Posted by Titan7171
Hmm well a good cold board has a preety clear socket area and most importantly doesn't bug out when frozen. I know they used a gigabyte and thats definitely clear in the socket department but from what i saw the only choice for a non integrated graphics board is a sb600.
These three have no onboard graphics and SB750, don't know how they are for cold though
Foxconn http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186149
DFI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813136057
Asus http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131339
Hmm well the asus has caps in the way, still can't forgive DFI so it looks like foxconn or gigabyte with integrated graphics is the only option for now. Hopefully there will a product refresh close to release.Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
I'm holding out for AM3, maybe by then there will be some nicer boards out. I don't know why so many have to have the onboard graphics, I couldn't care less about it for my rigs :shrug:
Asus....http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13405Quote:
Originally Posted by Titan7171
Gigabyte....http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/News/Moth...px?NewsID=1423
MSI......http://global.msi.com.tw/html/popup/.../en/index.html
Biostar.....http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/...M2/AMDAM3.html
DFI.....Who knows-the website sucks-no announcement yet.
ECS......No announcement yet.
You're welcome!:D
chew
The foxconn A79A-s is a 790fx + SB750 mother board there is no integrate graphics card on that mother board.
After checking the Asus page I think they already added the phenom 2 to their latest BIOS, at least for the M3A78-T that I use. The CPU-Support list states that the latest Phenom 9950 125w is supported since ver. 0306. Latest is 0502, describe with "Support new CPUs". There is hope :)
Asus Boards currently supporting AM3 chips:
http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=13405
M3A79-T Deluxe Rulez as is one of them!!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Daveburt714
so.. now we can use ddr3 memory with the new bios? :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Daveburt714
If you succeed in plugging the DDR3 module into the DDR2 DIMM slot ;).
With AM3 CPUs, ASUS mean Phenom II CPUs.
No, unfortunately not, since ddr2/ddr3 slots are different. Therefore I'm not too disappointed that my board isn't listed and I'm going to get an AM2+ Deneb.
WHy?.... DDR2 and DDR3, are actually all the exact same 240 pin layout.... :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by malice85
others have been over this in several other threads a thousand times. DDR3 is not pin ocmpatible, it won't fit.Quote:
Originally Posted by tictac
It's totally understandable to be disgruntled about that, but there's other places to show that, just start a thread and let this one continue on with more info.Quote:
Originally Posted by chew*
my bad :(Quote:
Originally Posted by biohead
You were not completely wrong ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by tictac
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DDR3 DIMMs have 240 pins, the same number as DDR2, and are the same size, but are electrically incompatible and have a different key notch location.
wasn't ati trying to promote hybrid crossfire?Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO