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Sneak pics of MSI's new 990FXA motherboard


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Gallery: We score some early shots of MSI's upcoming 9-series motherboard, the 990FXA-BD80. AMD fans, check it out!

It's always nice to get a sneak peak of upcoming hardware, and our latest generous offerer of tech-that's-soon-to-be-released is MSI. The PC vendor's just shiftily sent us some shots of of its soon to be released AMD motherboard, the 990FXA-BD80.

This shiny new 9-series board boasts automatic OC-Genie overclocking (which MSI claims can boost performance by up to 248 per cent at a click), three-way SLI and four-way CrossFire graphics, and hi-end solid caps.

The 9-series chipset will be released in two weeks.

Here's the nitty gritty.

Processor	Support for an AMD FX & Phenom™ II & Athlon™ II & Sempron™ Processors with an AM3+ socket / 140W Ready
Chipset	AMD 990FX + SB950
Memory	4 DIMMs support for DDR3-2133(OC)/1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066 MHz up to 32GB max
Audio	8-channel (7.1) HD Audio subsystem
LAN	10/100/1000 Mb/s LAN subsystem
Peripheral interfaces	．6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports from SB950.．2 x IEEE 1394 ports. (1R / 1F) ．4 x USB 3.0 ports. (2R / 2F)．8 x USB 2.0 ports (4R / 4F) ．2 x Power eSATA ports (USB 2.0 Combo)
Expansion capabilities	．4 x PCI Express x16 slots.．2 x PCI-E x1 slots ．1 x PCI slot

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7 Comments

tunksy May 19, 2011 11:43 AM	SLI and crossfire? only 1 LAN port. Still nice. looking forward to this release. money is in the bank :P
Opy May 19, 2011 1:24 PM	OC Genie fails for me. But that's not uncommon when I try to use cool features. For some random reason I was interested in the lug inside the USB 2.0 ports being different from each other (ignoring the e-SATA/USB port). I have some guesses as to why, but they don't make a lot of sense to me.
philo-sofa May 19, 2011 3:02 PM	Exactly how slow would somethings default clocks have to be to 'improve performance by 248%'? I do love marketing :)
Hawkeye May 19, 2011 3:39 PM	Yeah, it's pretty impressive propaganda :)
philo-sofa May 20, 2011 10:49 AM	Actually to be fair was looking at this on XS, and someone pointed out that that 248& figure could very legitimately (nomeclature aside) be OC-Genie using ACC to unlock two cores & giving each a 24% clock boost. Alledgedly this board was originally supposed to tbe the 990FX 'Big Bang' model.
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