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ASUS Unveils The TUF Sabertooth 990FX R3.0 Motherboard
Despite the AM3+ platform being ancient and replaced by Zen relatively soon, some users may want to use their existing processor and upgrade to a fairly modern motherboard with a substantial warranty. ASUS has just unleashed the TUF Sabertooth 990FX 3.0 motherboard which includes four 10Gb/s USB 3.1 ports, eight…
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Gigabyte Unveils AM3+ GA-990FX-Gaming Motherboard
AMD’s upcoming Zen architecture requires a new socket and supports DDR4 memory. This is the first socket change in almost five years and there hasn’t been many updates to the ageing AM3+ platform. However, in a surprise announcement, Gigabyte has just revealed the GA-990FX-Gaming motherboard which supports AMD AM3+ FX processors,…
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ASRock Just Announced The Full Fatal1ty Killer Gaming Motherboard Series
ASRock just unveiled the mew Killer Series motherboards, having exactly as the name states, killer design and performance. The series is made up of the Z87, B85, 990FX and FM2A88X+, all Killer! Apart from the ludicrously fast Killer LAN that speeds up networking performances up to 5 times faster, this…
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ASUS Announce That Their Current 990FX Fully Support The FX-9000 Series
ASUS have revealed that all their current 990FX motherboards will fully support AMD’s FX 9000 series of processors which currently consist of the FX-9370 and FX-9590 processors. These will work fine without the need for any BIOS updates but the clarification was needed as the high TDP of the FX-9000…
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AMD’s FX-9590 Gets A Huge Price Cut, Joins The HD 7990
AMD’s FX-9590 CPU has just has its price cut in the UK from the £700 MSRP all the way down to a £300 MSRP. This means the FX-9590 is now around twice the price of the CPU it is based on, the FX 8350, which costs about £146. The retailer in…
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First FX-9590 System Is Spotted, Costs $4500
The AMD FX-9590 costs about $900 so any pre-built system with it in is never going to be cheaper. That said the first pre-built FX-9590 system has been spotted by Hermitage Akihabara (via TechPowerUp) from G-Tune. This is going to be the best AMD system money can buy and the…
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Gigabyte Reveal Revision 4.0 Of The 990FXA-UD3
With AMD still some way off a new motherboard platform release motherboard vendors are limited to just revamping old designs with new features, such as we saw Gigabyte do recently with the 990FXA-UD7. Their latest updates are being allocated to the mid-range 990FXA-UD3 AMD motherboard and these updates take it…
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Gigabyte Updates Flagship 990FXA-UD7 Motherboard To Rev 3.0
AMD motherboard haven’t really seen much change over the past couple of years and since the release of Bulldozer back in October 2011 we haven’t seen any new chipsets for the AM3(+) socket. Due to this fact motherboard vendors have mainly been opting for either BIOS updates to keep these…
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Asus announce Sabertooth 990FX Gen 3 R2.0 – First AMD PCI-Express 3.0 capable board
Today we see Asus unveiling the world’s first AMD-based motherboard with PCI-Express 3.0 functionality. Usually this feature would be reserved for Intel-based boards, but Asus have paved the way for boards with AMD chipsets to offer the same. The Sabertooth 990Fx/Gen3 R2.0 board features the ability to use up to…
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