We already know that AMD released “Dragon” architecture for few month ago for supporting new generation AMD Phenom II. Some manufacture have been released in two taste memory platform for AM2+ (DDR2) and AM3 (DDR3). The “Dragon” consist with AMD 790GX with 750 southbridge and HD 4800 series GPU. For coming release new fastest X4 955 AMD CPU, our source have a preleased picture of RD890 chipset.
As expected the RD890 chipset is for AMD’s AM3 socket, although it seems like the RD890 chipset runs hotter than previous generations of chipsets from AMD, as not only is it cooled by a fairly sizeable heatsink, but it also has a small fan to further aid the cooling. It’s not possible to see the SB850 properly on the pictures, so we’re not sure what kind of cooling the new southbridge requires, but again it seems to have a rather large heatsink (hidden behind the watermark on the last picture).
The board appears to have four x16 PCI Express slots, although we have a feeling that it operates in either dual x16 or four x8 modes. There’s also a single open-ended PCI Express x4 slot and a PCI slot on the board. AMD has stuck with its tried and tested four memory slots and we didn’t really expect to see anything more or less. For now, this is a first glimpse into what to expect from AMD, but it doesn’t look like too much have changed. At least the RD890 should feature a better integrated graphics core for those interested in running Hybrid CrossFire on their board.
Update : 5 March 2010
List of known 890Fx chipset from Cebit 2010 (overclockerclubs.com)
Next month at the end of April AMD will be releasing their most important products for their processor division in 2010 – their enthusiast 890FX motherboard chipset and Phenom II X6 processor. AMD’s 890FX chipset, codenamed RD890 will come with four PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots one PCI-E 2.0 x4 slot which gives a total of 42 Lanes in the Northbridge itself. This will be accompanied by HyperTransport 3.0 and AMD’s SB850, which provides native support for SATA 6.0 Gbps. The chipset will only be available for Socket AM3, which means the demise of Socket AM2+ is near. At CeBIT this year, motherboard manufacturers have been showing off their latest offer and what will be available next month:
ASUS
Republic of Gamers Crosshair IV Extreme
This will be ASUS’ top-of-the-line AMD motherboard. It will contain a few electrical enhancements such as Super ML capacitors, PWM circuitry, voltage measure points and PCI-Express electrical control switches to make sure that overclockers can get the most stable overclock out of this motherboard. A few extra BIOS chips will be added as well – just in case anything goes wrong and Bluetooth iROG overclocking is available as well, so you can overclock externally (although I’m sure that most overclockers will use and prefer the BIOS). The motherboard is much larger than a standard ATX one so it is advised to have a tower chassis as this motherboard is closer to being EATX. What’s interesting to note is that this motherboard will also have an open ended PCI 1.1 x4 slot.
Republic of Gamers Crosshair IV Formula
This motherboard will be smaller than the Extreme and will lack the extra electrical features that it has. It will come with a 10+2 Phase VRM design – 10 Phase VRM for the CPU and 2 Phase for the memory. It will come with standard array of Inputs and Outputs, such as a gigabit Ethernet, FireWire, eSATA, two USB 3.0 ports and six USB 2.0 ports and 8+2 channel audio.
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M4A89TD Pro
This will be ASUS’ mainstream motherboard, based on the 890FX chipset. This motherboard comes with everything that is offered with the 890FX chipset, along with two USB 3.0 ports, 10+2 Phase power design (like the Crosshair). The expansion slots are a little bit more plentiful than the Crosshairs, although they do differ in what is offered; two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 full-bandwidth slots, an open-ended PCI-E 1.1 x4, a PCI-E x1 and two PCI slots. There will also be a physical switch on the motherboard to allow the unlocking of disabled cores in some of AMD’s processors – this is probably implemented due to lack of ACC in the 890FX chipset and to potentially boost sales.
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BIOSTAR
TA890FXE
This BIOSTAR motherboard will be AMD’s budget 890FX motherboard, as it comes stripped of features and only has the bare minimum on it. It will have a 5+1 Phase VRM, four PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, two PCI slots and 7.1 channel HD audio, a gigabit Ethernet, and a FireWire port. There will be no USB 3.0 on this motherboard.
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GIGABYTE
GA-890FXA-UD5
GIGABYTE’s offering isn’t anything special either coming with the usual two PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, along with two PCI-E x1 and one PCI slots. There will also be two USB 3.0 ports and other connectivity options such as two gigabit Ethernet interfaces, FireWire and 8+2 channel audio. There will also be a 10+2 Phase VRM.
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MSI
890FXA-GD70
Not much is known about MSI’s offering yet, except that it will come with a whopping five PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, a PCI-E x1 slot and a legacy PCI slot. MSI will also be throwing in their DrMOS, OC Genie, and APS technologies. Expected retail price is £140. That’s all we know so far.
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