AMD Preps am3 motherboard lineup.

[Final8ty]

IDE if your going to use a raid card because they don't support CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives.....

4 pci-express slots at 2.0 are going to need a lot of power to support them for 16x, I wonder if x58 boards have all 6 slots at 8x.

on side note adding suff like this

32mb-256mb sound card cache

64mb-2gb Raid cache DVD supported

512mb-2gb video gddr3 to gddr5

fully integrated 7.1 sound DVI HDMI display port,coaxial and optical support.

4 pci express x16 slots all fully 2.0 1-3 pci express slots 1-3PCI slots. up to 10 slots. belike adding it to the bottom of the board like and expansion for the motherboard and . with a dust cover when not in use

TV tuner integrated with High end video card and cooling soultion. low end card for 2Dand vista areo clock low power mode.

all would = $1,000 for the board.

Err...

[Oliverda]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd...opus,6364.html

"Now onto the AM3 platform definition. Socket AM3 is designed to exclude AM2 and AM2+ parts – has DDR3-1333 memory support. Thermal monitoring is moving over entirely to Thermal Sense Interface (TSI) monitoring – no more Diode based monitoring. Phasing out of Diode based monitoring has already begun with current products being pressed and net yet shipped. PCI VR control is also scheduled to be phased out for all future AM3 processors."

What is the PCI VR control? What is it for?

Voltage regulator?

[chew*]

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd...opus,6364.html

"Now onto the AM3 platform definition. Socket AM3 is designed to exclude AM2 and AM2+ parts – has DDR3-1333 memory support. Thermal monitoring is moving over entirely to Thermal Sense Interface (TSI) monitoring – no more Diode based monitoring. Phasing out of Diode based monitoring has already begun with current products being pressed and net yet shipped. PCI VR control is also scheduled to be phased out for all future AM3 processors."

What is the PCI VR control? What is it for?

Voltage regulator?

Alot more than a voltage regulation, explained here If it doesn't have multiple meanings > http://www.tarek.com/pcie_overview.htm

[chew*]

ever since AMD died off you kinda dissapeared
i am not surprised at all to see you think it's 2007
this year or two definitely are forgettable for true AMD enthusiast (NO i'm not talking about you freak lynch mob fanbois but normal ppl like chew* )

just surprised that s7 has not surfaced yet lol

Guess who just resurfaced ( according to my inbox ) dino

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

yah s7's been pmed' as well as a couple of "my people"

Look what i found


Not to be confused with this.......Look close at the model #
http://usa.asus.com/prog_content/mid...spx?model=1984


Still searching however I did get a pic of a reference AMD board not sure if DDR 3. Hopefull someone can identify notch placement, I'll get pic up in a few.

I want this! I just need money for DDR3.

I hope they change the position of the 24 pin power. Why behind the pci-e 1x?

The news about phenom 2 make me want to get into debt to build a new computer.

[Slovnaft]

chew* that board looks like ddr2
ddr2 notches are more centric whereas ddr3 notches are more to one side.

[justapost]

Alot more than a voltage regulation, explained here If it doesn't have multiple meanings > http://www.tarek.com/pcie_overview.htm

That is PCIe VR not PCI VR! Maybe they mean PCI slots in general?

[Chris_redfield]

Erm... sorry for the noobish question, but the above motherboard which AMD CPU's will that support.

I don't suppose its too much to hope for an AMD Skulltrail equivalent?

[Oliverda]

Have you ever heared something about the ASUS M4A78 PRO?

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/socketAM2/M4A78_PRO/

[justapost]

Have you ever heared something about the ASUS M4A78 PRO?

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/asus/mb/socketAM2/M4A78_PRO/

You can inspect it with that tool (found on rebelhaven).

http://www.lejabeach.com/sisubb/AMIBCP313.zip.

I skimmed over the bios strings seems it's an DDR2 board (see bios strings at 0x069F).

[Particle]

Personal needs:
- One PS/2 (I'm still using a 1st gen Microsoft Internet Keyboard and quite enjoy it, thank you)
- 4+ DIMM slots
- 3 PCIe x8 or better slots
- 1 PCIe x1 or better slot

Other than that I'm pretty flexible.

[Throwed]

Personal needs:
- One PS/2 (I'm still using a 1st gen Microsoft Internet Keyboard and quite enjoy it, thank you)
Other than that I'm pretty flexible.

Ha, Ha! They should outlaw the green and purple ports. Thankfully my ASUS M3A78 does not have the old green keyboard slot.

[charged3800z24]

My Asus M3A79-t deluxe has one PS2 that does either Mouse or keybaord..kinda nice if you need it.

[DaMulta]

The dang 790FX can do dual CPUs I want a board with dual NORMAL not server CPUs.

8x8

8 Cores 8 GPUs

8x8

Screw the old 4x4 idea.

[demonkevy666]

The dang 790FX can do dual CPUs I want a board with dual NORMAL not server CPUs.

8x8

8 Cores 8 GPUs

8x8

Screw the old 4x4 idea.

screw that I'll take a 4 way socket with HT3.1. NUMA memory bandwidth is awesome 22.5gbs and 4 16x 2.0 slots with two north bridges. since this would be a shanghai inspired board why not call it Godzilla lol

[DaMulta]

If you did that it might be a trap

[chew*]

Gonna see If I can do a cheesy board layout as I don't have a nice program to do it, see what it looks like with all thats been mentioned. I realized one thing, that if we have widely spaced crossfire that a single PCI will have to be above the x16 slot and not below it.

[Halk]

Drop firewire.
Drop onboard sound.
Ensure there's 2 onboard NICs.
FarTooMany Stage VRM, with standard mounting fittings so we can all get aftermarket VRM blocks in the same way as CPU blocks. Charge an extra £20 to pay for it by all means, but overkill on the VRM for nice smooth power.
No heatsinks or fans, on NB/SB/VRM I don't want to pay for something I immediately throw it away. Have it as an optional extra.
Make a backplate that actually fits, or just don't bother. Edit : I mean an I/O plate thingy.
Stop giving me IDE/SATA cables, I threw a box of them out. A HUGE box.
Nobody wants external SATA, stop it.

[DaMulta]

NO I ran out of cables the other day!!!!


Installing OEM drives in other peoples machines eats them up.

[chew*]

I would opt for just more usuable cables, etc 90 degree sata's but now this stuff is trivial. motherboard design and layout is of utmost importance, bundled stuff is trivial.

[Eternalightwith]

Please stick with two colors max! I want some sexy black and orange or black and red, like you do for the Intel board. Even black and purple
And we want 8+2 power sections. Don't be scimping with w 4+1 ot 5+1

[Oliverda]

ECS A790GXM-AD3

[hema]

waitting for the new generation of AMD

[Rammsteiner]

ECS A790GXM-AD3

Good I checked this thread first, was about to post it

Well, what can I say... it actually doesnt feel like 'Oh yeah', it's just like current motherboards but with DDR3 slots. But, it does mean Deneb is coming very close now, and that's awesome

One major thing Im hoping for is motherboard manufacturers will start producing good quality products now for AM3, from Asus more ROG boards and from DFI more UT boards. Because right now it's just retarded IMO

[Mech0z]

I hope the manufactores soon trash that ugly ass yellow :s havent seen it being pretty on any boards.

Being this I refer to: http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/New...uID=13&LanID=0