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ASUS mobos support AM3 chips

Now with AMD 45nm technology!

ASUS announced on Tuesday that its M2 and latest M3 series mainboards now support AMD's new AM3 line of processors built on 45nm die technology.

The Taiwanese PC components and systems heavyweight said that its customers who have already bought its M2 and M3 series motherboards can install support for AMD's new high performance AM3 chips with just a BIOS update.

The list of Asus motherboards that support AMD's AM3 processors is:

ROG Series
Crosshair II Formula NVIDIA nForce® 780a SLI 1210

M3A Series
M3A79-T Deluxe AMD 790FX+SB750 0504
M3A78 PRO AMD 780G+SB700 0702
M3A78-T AMD 790GX+SB750 0502
M3A78 AMD 770+SB700 0703
M3A78-EM AMD 780G+SB700 1103
M3A78-VM AMD 780G+SB700 0802
M3A78-CM AMD 780V+SB700 0902
M3A-H/HDMI AMD 780G+SB700 1102

M3N Series
M3N78 PRO NVIDIA GeForce 8300 0504
M3N-HT Deluxe/HDMI NVIDIA nForce® 780a SLI 1602
M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe NVIDIA nForce® 780a SLI 1602
M3N78 NVIDIA GeForce 8200 0504
M3N78-EM NVIDIA GeForce 8300 0418
M3N78-VM NVIDIA GeForce 8200 0804
M3N78-CM NVIDIA GeForce 8200 0607
M3N78-AM NVIDIA GeForce 8200 0708
M3N78 SE NVIDIA GeForce 8200 0305
M3N72-D NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI 0502
M3N-HD/HDMI NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI 1402
M3N-H/HDMI NVIDIA GeForce 8300 1301

M2N Series
M2N68 NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV+nForce 630a 0412
M2N68-AM NVIDIA GeForce 7025+nForce 630a 0317
M2N68-VM NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV+nForce 630a 0409
M2N68-CM NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV+nForce 630a 0322

Asus motherboard BIOS updates are available at its website.

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SceptreCore Dec 17, 2008 5:08 PM	Wow great going ASUS, but that's why the SB750 was introduced into the AM2+ platform (among other things) so any AM2+ mobo with a that south bridge can run an AM3 CPU.
Sebbs Dec 17, 2008 9:39 PM	very good to see, even the board i'm planning on getting for my next upgrade is on the list. a question though... AM3 CPUs are meant to have a DDR3 memory controller, while the current AM2+ CPUs have a DDR2 memory controller, correct? so how will the DDR3 controller work with the DDR2 boards in the list above (which is all of them i believe)?
bu14-1 Dec 18, 2008 6:33 PM	I guess AMD will be releasing DDR3 and DDR2 version of their new CPUs, Sebbs.
Sebbs Dec 22, 2008 11:07 AM	clicked around a bit and it seems that AM3 CPUs have both the DDR3 and DDR2 memory controllers on the same die. that info seems to have been quietly released in Nov 2007 on p45 of http://download.amd.com/Corporate/SpiderPlatformPresentationv3.pdf

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