GIGABYTE First to Market with AM3+ “Black Socket” Motherboards

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GIGABYTE First to Market with AM3+ “Black Socket” Motherboards

Enabling Support for AMD Next Generation CPUs for Current AMD 800/700 Series Chipset Motherboards




City of Industry, California, March, April 01 2011 – GIGABYTE INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today announced a new line of 16 “Black Socket” motherboards previously unveiled at CeBIT 2011 that offer support for AMD’s next generation , 32nm AM3+ CPUs and are based on current generation AMD 800/700 series chipset-based motherboards.


Wanting to ensure users their motherboard is able to take advantage of all the performance enhancements that AMD’s upcoming AM3+ CPUs have to offer, GIGABYTE has equipped their entire line of AM3+ CPU ready motherboards with a new black colored socket, making it easy to spot for AM3+ support. In addition, GIGABYTE “Black Socket” series offer full backwards compatibility with AMD’s current generation AM3 socket CPUs, allowing for painless migration to the AM3+ CPUs when they become available.



To learn more about the GIGABYTE AM3+ ready “Black Socket” motherboards, please visit:
http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/274/mb-am3plus.html

[FlanK3r]

Dinos, Dinos, tell for us more :-D

[freeloader]

Anyone know about availability?

[FlanK3r]

I think maybe this month or May?

[FatAlbert]

I can't see the "new" UD7. So, there will be sth new instead RIGHT?

[madcho]

This is AM3+ Ready socket or AM3+ official so ?

[tiro_uspsss]

the pic in OP - is that actually an available mobo?

if so, why so many PCI slots?

[Jamesrt2004]

This is AM3+ Ready socket or AM3+ official so ?

Am3+ ready.

AMD aren't supporting this. They even said it may work but basically not their responsibility as they dint recommend it and for people to get 9XX series chipset instead (:

[STEvil]

whoever gets or has one of these boards should see if that pin is actually connected anywhere or they just made a hole on the socket to look good?

[Dainas]

Yeah thats the real question, although the one that's been burning in my mind is; when Gigabyte will start using bright greens, blues and oranges on the same motherboard again.

[BeepBeep2]

This is AM3+ Ready socket or AM3+ official so ?

AM3+ "Official". The black socket is an AM3b socket with the extra hole compared to AM3.

Am3+ ready.

AMD aren't supporting this. They even said it may work but basically not their responsibility as they dint recommend it and for people to get 9XX series chipset instead (:

No. It's an AM3+ board with 890FX/SB850... apparently they needed to change sockets to use Orochi CPUs.

whoever gets or has one of these boards should see if that pin is actually connected anywhere or they just made a hole on the socket to look good?

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Yeah thats the real question, although the one that's been burning in my mind is; when Gigabyte will start using bright greens, blues and oranges on the same motherboard again.

Like this?

[blindbox]

Is it already available? I seriously need to buy one, so that I can stick my AM3 processor that's still on AM2+ on to the mobo to get on with DDR3 - need the capacity, and also for future bulldozer upgrade.

[[XC] Oj101]

Like this?

An internal mail at Nestle for the new Smarties colouring ended up being sent to Gigabyte by accident.

[SubZero.it]

Is it already available? I seriously need to buy one, so that I can stick my AM3 processor that's still on AM2+ on to the mobo to get on with DDR3 - need the capacity, and also for future bulldozer upgrade.

Be patient and wait for 990 that supports sli also i'm in your same situation. (Though if you really can't wait there is also a sli hack proven to work with all amd chipsets so it's not that major feature)
For those interested in the socket here it is a clearer image

[TheBreezyBB]

I'm getting AM3+ only when the 990FX are available :P

[blindbox]

Be patient and wait for 990 that supports sli also i'm in your same situation. (Though if you really can't wait there is also a sli hack proven to work with all amd chipsets so it's not that major feature)
For those interested in the socket here it is a clearer image
[IM]http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/2/3781/4016_big.jpg[/IG]

Yeah, not interested in getting SLI. Plus, the hack works really well anyway. Well, anything happens and I'll have 3 computers (one bd on 890gx am3+, one bd on 990gx, one AM3 tri-core on am2+). Shortage of computers at my house is a daily problem.

GXes just in case one or two pc's don't need a graphics card.

Or maybe I'll just go for dual-socket socket G34 right now, right away. Waiting for how the clock speeds go for them though. Downside is, If I do that I'll have to re-sell my shanghai chip later on... not sure if there are any takers in my country.

[saaya]

Good idea!

[Mats]

This is old news, posted two weeks ago, at least one board is in stock both in US and Germany:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=268039

[Jamesrt2004]

AM3+ "Official". The black socket is an AM3b socket with the extra hole compared to AM3.


No. It's an AM3+ board with 890FX/SB850... apparently they needed to change sockets to use Orochi CPUs.


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Like this?

Am3+ Ready.. as AMD doesn't support AM3+ on 8 series chipsets

[blindbox]

Am3+ Ready.. as AMD doesn't support AM3+ on 8 series chipsets

Mind giving some links? From what we know, Bulldozer is not supported on AM3, and that is all. Nothing about AM3+ and 8 series chipset together.

It says AM3 ready too

[dinos22]

Dinos, Dinos, tell for us more :-D

The boards have shipped already mate so they will become available any time now

[Th-I3riG02]

Somewhere on here there's a list and links to ASRock, ASUS, and MSI on top of Gigabyte to AT LEAST AM3+ ready boards... Mostly FYI..