ASUS have an AM3 board for (y)our perusal - is it any good?
We've had a look at some ASUS gear that is simply named - but the M4A79T Deluxe is more of a mouthful than a compulsive eater at a pie-eating competition.
Odd metaphors aside, the mobo under the microscope (or macroscope in this case) is manufactured to be paired up with the new AM3 chips - the previous AM2+ CPUs will not fit, though AM3 will work in an AM2+ socket.
They've done this by removing two pins on the CPU, giving it a total of 938 instead of 940, letting the Phenom II architecture be plied onto a new socket with the minimum amount of fuss.
Also present in the new socket and chip is support for DDR3 memory, which we've covered in Issue 99 no less to surprising result, though the chipset is the same 790FX that we've seen before.
Head into the gallery to check out pics and more descriptions of the board, and keep thine eyes peeled for this tech in a future Issue of Atomic.
Issue: 133 | February, 2012