CeBIT 2011: ASRock 890FX Deluxe5 - Get your AM3+ CPUs ready

[George_o/c]

ASRock showed one of its first high end AM3+ motherboards at Cebit, named 890FX Deluxe5. Apart from supporting AMD AM3/AM3+ CPUs, it features Advanced V8+2 Power Phase design, Turbo UCC technology, four DDR3 1866MHz slots, 3 x PCI-Express x16 (AMD CrossFireX), four USB 3.0 and six SATA 6.0 Gbps ports.

Source: http://www.hwbox.gr/news-motherboard...-am3-cpus.html

[slaveondope]

Whats this 890FX support. Makes me hold reservations about BullDozers performence
Maybe more BS I dont want

[STEvil]

How does it support AM3/AM3+ if they're different sockets?

[George_o/c]

They are not different, AM3+ is backwards compatible with AM3. However, while AM3 CPUs work perfectly in both AM3 and AM3+ sockets, Bulldozer CPUs (AM3+) will exclusively work on AM3+ socket The demo system had the AM3+ 890FX Deluxe5 along with a 1100T.

Follow source link and you'll see this:

[~CS~]

AM3+ socket supports both AM3+ CPUs (bulldozer) and AM3 CPUs ( thuban,regor,propus,deneb ),Am3 socket only supports Am3 CPUs.

[George_o/c]

That's what I said

[Hawkeye4077]

That first PCIe x1 slot is useless. NICs nor Sound cards will fit thereas the NB heatsink is too tall. What gives?? (Same issue on my 890GX)

[Glow9]

That first PCIe x1 slot is useless. NICs nor Sound cards will fit thereas the NB heatsink is too tall. What gives?? (Same issue on my 890GX)

It's a budget Asus what do you expect? And to all the it's not a part of Asus people come on.. "deluxe" they even take Asus naming scheme.

Well I guess AM3+ is really just AM3 v1.5 Seems the same just what one more pin hole, and faster memory support? I'm sure I'm missing something else?

Thanks for the pics/links

[bamtan2]

That first PCIe x1 slot is useless. NICs nor Sound cards will fit thereas the NB heatsink is too tall. What gives?? (Same issue on my 890GX)

I agree. I don't get why they do that, especially when the heatsinks probably don't need to be so big. Maybe they've found it only matters to a few people, so they disregard it not making sense.

[Daveburt714]

Bring on the Asus, GBT and BioStar AM3+ boards...

I'm still leaning toward MSI's BBC, but It's nice to see some new gear showing up at CeBit.

[Opteron146]

Photos of AsRock's AM3b mainboards:

http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/ne...?id=1298982409

Gigabyte's:

http://www.planet3dnow.de/cgi-bin/ne...?id=1299055817

[stuffme]

Any board without PCI interface around?

[JkS]

I would rather like to see see 990fx/gx mobos and Llano fusion boards.

[AbortRetryFail?]

Whats this 890FX support. Makes me hold reservations about BullDozers performence
Maybe more BS I dont want

The x90FX design has 36 PCIe Gen2 lanes off the NB, HT3 and a dedicated 'full' lane to the USB3 controller ... the SB850 has 6 SATA 6GB/s

All bloviating aside, that pretty much tops the industry in it's segment. Not sure why that gives you reservations about BD performance.

How does it support AM3/AM3+ if they're different sockets?

I think I'm seeing a trend -- AM3+ (or AM3b / AM3rc2) sockets seem to be that dingy black/grey color. Isn't that different than all other 890FX AM3 conventional sockets?

That first PCIe x1 slot is useless. NICs nor Sound cards will fit thereas the NB heatsink is too tall. What gives?? (Same issue on my 890GX)

I'm not seeing an issue with NICs -- can't help you with sound cards. I suspect there is a general specification and that AsRock complies with it.


edit: I fergit ... this seems to confirm that 1866MHz has native support!

[Mad Pistol]

I like Gigabyte's NB heatsink design better. They actually cut away the part where the add-in card would go (on my 790GX, I'm using my sound card in the top slot). A lot of people think that it hurts the chipset cooling, but it's quite the opposite. It means that the air from my CPU cooler, which is pointing upwards, is actually funneling air around the NB heatsink creating a wind tunnel.

Besides, NB heatsinks have a huge thermal threshold. Really, there's no reason for Asus to cut that slot off.

[Particle]

I suppose the question you really have to ask yourself is if you really want to use this for a future Bulldozer build not based on a 900-series chipset.

[Manicdan]

I suppose the question you really have to ask yourself is if you really want to use this for a future Bulldozer build not based on a 900-series chipset.

seriously,

im quite curious what features will be missing by using 890NB/850SB

[FlanK3r]

maybe some about new P-States/Turbo, maybe a bit lower OC tweaking potencial?

[Kristers Bensin]

maybe some about new P-States/Turbo, maybe a bit lower OC tweaking potencial?

You will also miss out on some USB3.0 ports.