Mobo Makers Announced AM3 Support

Asus have announced that 15 of their Socket AM2+ motherboards will support AMD's AM3 CPUs. This seems to be most of the newer boards to come out the past year from the AMD 700 series, and Nvidia GeForce 8000 and 7000 products.

Gigabyte also have announced a wide range of motherboards which will support the AM2+ and AM3 45nm versions of AMD's processors. It looks like they're going deeper as they support Nvidia's 750 chipset as well as 790FX boards with the dated SB600 chipset.

MSI has put up a similar list of 26 motherboards that can accommodate the upcoming processors through BIOS updates.

Other motherboard makers:
Biostar
ECS Elitegroup
Jetway
J&W

Computex Taiwan: Biostar showcases AMD 790GX

Biostar showcases motherboards based on unannounced AMD 790GX chipset. It had two variants on display, with both supporting performance-enhancing SidePort memory modules, located just below the northbridge.



The TA790GX A2+, pictured above, carries the 790GX and SB750 combination. The new southbridge was supposed to debut with the 780G, and we may well see other manufacturers roll it in quietly.

SB750 brings with it improved RAID support, and, according to the product specialist, a method of better overclocking the Phenom CPUs, although this sounded sketchy at best.

The northbridge, 790GX, adopts the Radeon HD 3300 IGP that's clocked in at 550MHz on the Biostar model; some way below what we were expecting. A 64MB DDR2-800 SidePort DRAM is added for more performance.

The other board, TA790GX3 A2+, is practically the same, save for a 128MB SidePort DRAM. As the board's name suggests, it's GDDR3 memory operating at 1,066MHz.