AMD Phenom Upcoming Board (RD790) - RoundUp

[tictac]

Q: What is RD790?
A :
- RD790 is next generation AMD/ATI Chipset support AMD K8 (AM2) & K10 processor (Barcelona, Phenom).


RD790 Improvement Features :
- Dual or single AMD CPU configuration
- Supports socket AM2+ and socket F CPU
- Support CrossFire , Trifire and 4GPU on plan
-> Allowing maximum of four physical PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots at x8 lanes bandwidth or 2 PCI-E x16 slots at maximum bandwidth (16x-16x or 8x-8x-8x-8x CrossFire)
- Providing a total of 52 PCI-E lanes, 41 lanes in Northbridge
- 65nm Architecture
- Support HyperTransport 3.0
- Support for HTX slots
- Support of PCI-E 2.0
- Supports Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Discrete chipset cache memory of at least 16 KB to reduce the latencies and increase the bandwidth
- Northbridge runs at 3 W when idle, and maximum 10 W under load


Motherboard Vendor that already have RD790 on pipeline :-
SOCKET AM2
AMD : Hammerhead
- 4 x PCI EXpress 2.0
- 1- 2 slot gap from each other
- 4 SATA

ASUS :
- 2 x PCI EXpress 2.0
- 2 slot gap from each other

GIGABYTE : GA-M790-DQ6
- 4 x PCI EXpress 2.0
- No gap slot from each other
- 6 SATA
Spec: http://www.gigabyte.com.tr/products/...-m790-dq6.html
Preview : http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/giga...790-DQ6/g1.htm

MSI : K9A2 Platinum
- 4 x PCI EXpress 2.0
- 1 slot gap from each other
- 6 SATA
Preview : http://www.hardspell.com/english/doc...p?news_id=1362

DFI :
- 3 x PCI EXpress 2.0


SOCKET 1207
AMD : Wahoo
- 3 x PCI EXpress 2.0


Q: TriFire ? Whats that?
A:
- 3 VGA Card Duct Tape together via Crossfire link
- TriFire Setup Demo : http://youtube.com/watch?v=R7EZmYth6TM


Q: QuadFire ? Whats that?
A:
- 4 VGA Card Duct Tape together via Crossfire link



Q: How do i install AMD next generation processor on RD790 board?
A:
- Installation guide demo : http://youtube.com/watch?v=SYvupXNmaKQ


Any head up? The MSI board looks to have best layout for QuadFire setup...

[AliG]

I agree, msi best for quad xfire, and supposedly the driver is finally starting to come along to work pretty well, but if the asus 790 board is as big of an improvement over the 590sli (I have a crosshair that is actually quite good) as their p35s were over their p965 boards, then I think that would be the winner as it looks better imo and not that many people either have the dough for say 4 r670s which supposedly will have more power than the 8800ultra or at least 4 r600s/rv670s

[doompc]

Asus RAM heatpipes look sweet.

[AliG]

yes, but probably are pretty useless

[Psycho_eddie]

I love that asus bord... as allways Asus making good use of copper with lots of passive cooling...

When will the Asus one be realsed??, rumours say before x38... but i see in overclockers u can preorder one x38 bord type allready!

2 x 2900XT 1Gb edtions would be great in that mobo esp since Amd make them hehe

[AliG]

xfire support only I believe, I mean, this is an ati board, why would they give it sli support or nvidia even be willing to give ati an sli license?

[Nedjo]

MSI is good:



But, I want this baby:



I think we all know who's manufacturer of this mobo

[cky2k6]

i like the dfi layout. two useable pci slots is ideal, cause i mean, unfortunately its not very realistic that pci-e cards will really become widely used in the lifetime of the board.

[BeardyMan]

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?

[afireinside]

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?

no...

[ColonelCain]

I'd say that the DFI would have my vote. 2x X3950XTX's in Crossfire, and an X3800XT for physics... all on watercooling... .

[Zytek_Fan]

I really like the layout

[BeardyMan]

no...

Really? aargh
That's just the thing that i like about my conroe
although bending some insocket pins from s775 is pretty dangerous to..

[fellix_bg]

LoL!
I like how tiny are the two bridges of the RD790. Hope it will be cool enough, not to worry much for the cooling.

[Lightman]

LoL!
I like how tiny are the two bridges of the RD790. Hope it will be cool enough, not to worry much for the cooling.

I hope so too!
RD790 supposedly is manufactured at 65nm which is looking good in that regard...

BTW I like DFI and MSI layouts (DFI slightly better).

Can't wait for these babies in retail...

[AliG]

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?

only barcelona is, the rest of the phenom and single socket opterons are am2+, though I personally would have preffered to see am2 be pinless from the start, I don't know how many pins I've been trying to remove my ihs and finally one broke off in the socket. I don't know what the pin is for, but I've left it there just to be safe, so pinless would definitely be nice

[zanzabar]

dose that asus board have heatpipes that go to the ram sockets with copper around them, and on amd i think that pinles would be bad since the mb is generally more than the chip since amd focuses on pricing a good chip really low priced with a low but ocable clock, but i guess that its easier to break a cpu pin than a mb pin

[nn_step]

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?

well the pins have to be on the CPU or the Board, take your pick (that isn't pinless)
also separate Socket AM2 and Socket F

[zanzabar]

are they continuing the socket f i thought that they were moving to socket l or p or something

[leoftw]

ahhh damn it there goes my savings

[`danny]

That DFI layout is awesome, kind of wish I had the patience to wait for barcelona

[adamsleath]

guys? K10 shouldn't it be pinless?

dat's a shame....

but the boards look prerty.

believe it or not i am excited. - that msi heatsink is horny & the asus copper does look chunky.

[is it time to sell my 4300/p5k yet? ]

Dfi need to put some heatsinks on their board

something tells me these will be expensive

[bypolar]

Wonder what sound solution DFI is going to use i don't see the Header for the Karajan audio module.

MSI has a good looking board but DFI or Abit will get my money.



Oh would like to see amd redesign the socket bracket we have had numorius tabs break off about 3-6 months into the build. Stupid 1 TAB.

[AliG]

ahhh damn it there goes my savings

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

[adamsleath]

let's hope so; looking forward to them.