Good Morning All,



While AMD's new Phenom II chips support DDR2 and are compatible with
existing AM2+ boards, their full potential is only realized when equipped
with a few sticks of fast DDR3. Unfortunately, so far, the pool of available
AM3 / DDR3 capable boards has been rather small with only a few choices. The
majority of available DDR3 equipped AM3 boards also lack the multiple PCI-E
x16 slots to support AMD ATI CrossFireX, beyond just two cards.



One of the few boards with both DDR3 and full CrossFireX support is ASUS'
M4A79T Deluxe, which we briefly checked out in our initial look at the AMD
AM3 Phenom II. Today, we'll be examining the second DDR3 full CrossFireX
capable AM3 board to hit our labs, the MSI 790FX-GD70, and we'll be putting
it up against the M4A79T, head-to-head to see how it stacks up.



MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3 Motherboard, DDR 3 for Phenom II

Direct Link:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/MSI-790FXGD70-AM3-Motherboard/



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