AMD Phenom Upcoming Board (RD790) - RoundUp

i bet dfi has some giant heatsink for it that wont fit in a box

and the asus just has more cushion for the pushin

Board heatpipes just add more cost, still need good airflow to remove the heat from those copper chunks.

I cant wait to see Abits board

I'll be selling my q6600 for this :D

Definatly Asus mobo for me, 2* PCI-E for crossfire is perfectly adiquate will have to work extra to afford two 2900xt's as it is :cool:

I can imagine there to be bottlenecks a plenty with quad 2900xt's on msi bord for instance...

September/November is release date for these??

Yes, I wanna know when ETA is. I'd rather get this than an Intel setup...

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Originally Posted by AliG

Actually not quite, the rd790 boards supposedly are going to be dirt cheap like the 580 series boards, so you actually may be able to get a high quality board for at most $150

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AMD boards are always like that :D I love it!

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Originally Posted by AliG

Actually not quite, the rd790 boards supposedly are going to be dirt cheap like the 580 series boards, so you actually may be able to get a high quality board for at most $150

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that would be lovely. But I doubt the shiny copper studded boards will be much under $200. Lets hope DFI puts out a gem in the new platform.

Take all that cooper off and you get horrny cheap board :)
and that would be that what i need :)

Die Intel, live AMD like a free bird :)

I would much prefer a ~$100 board without all those heatpipes that still does crazy HTT speeds. The heatpipes are unnecessary and just add cost. Give me regular beefy aluminum sinks, I got airflow to spare.

Give it to me bare, I got waterblocks!

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Originally Posted by funnyperson1

I would much prefer a ~$100 board without all those heatpipes that still does crazy HTT speeds. The heatpipes are unnecessary and just add cost. Give me regular beefy aluminum sinks, I got airflow to spare.

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QFT...


Ply

anything on 8x8 mobos based on RD790?

yeah, that's what I want too, but I'll be content with this.

Bling sells mobos.

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Originally Posted by Kurz

Bling sells mobos.

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value does

bangs for bucks.
(but ignorance plays its part) - i know all about ignorance :ROTF:
...look, look; it's something new and shiny :slobber: :lol:
:doh:

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...mer_bigdoh.gif

Well, the DFI board sure looks good, but what about the sata connectors? Just two of them?

no; there's another 2 x 2 SATA upright ones (for 6 total) at the bottom of the DFI board.

Very great pics! The msi mobo looks sexier for me :)

Thanks for sharing peeps :up:

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Originally Posted by BeardyMan

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?:D

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Ehh wha...?:confused:

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QFT...


Ply

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Errr no, most people HATE noisy crapshoot config with half-@ssed air-only OC - water, chill or LN2, that's something.

Better OC & results, better noise level, better chip longevity - go liquid! :cool:

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Originally Posted by adamsleath

no; there's another 2 x 2 SATA upright ones (for 6 total) at the bottom of the DFI board.

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I'm curious: is there anyone out there who uses more than, say 3-4 SATA drives?
I mean from 3 drives it makes much more sense to buy an almost noiseless gigabit NAS box w/ RAID for $400-500 and keep it running 24/7 as your all-purpose server (besides serving my file server needs I stream music, movies etc from mine).

and you shoud start learning to use the edit button to avoid triple posts.

hey tictac, you forgot the hammerhead!

http://www.it.com.cn/f/diy/076/1/070601_diy_rd790.jpg

And the RD790 "wahoo" reference board
http://www.theinquirer.net/images/ar...TO_Brief01.jpg