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Chapter 1
Introduction of AMD 790GX Motherboards
1-1 Features of motherboard
The AMD 790GX chipset motherboard series are based on the latest AMD 790GX
Chipsetand the SB750 chipset which supports the following AM3 CPU in the 95W
range: Phenom II x 6;Phenom II x 4
；
Phenom II x 3
；
Phenom II x2
；
Athlon II x4
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Athlon
II x3
；
Athlon II x2
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Sempron The board also support socket AM2 CPU udder 65W and
socket AM2+ CPU under 95 W. With an integrated low-latency high-bandwidth DIMM
memory controller and a highly-scalable Hyper Transport technology-based system
bus up to HT 3.0. AMD 790GX Platform Processor Chipset motherboard series deliver
the outstanding system performance and professional desktop platform solution.
The AMD 790GX Series motherboard comes with a DDRII memory controller for dual
channel DDRII 400/DDRII 533/ DDRII 667/DDRII 800 memory module with capacity
expansible up to 8GB. These motherboards are embedded with SB750 chipset of
providing ULTRA ATA 133 connectors and Serial ATA2 with RAID 0/1/5/10 functions
which support up to two IDE and six Serial ATA2 devices to accelerate hard disk
drives and guarantee the data security without failure in advanced computing
performance.
The AMD 790GX motherboards provide PCI-E Gigabit LAN chip which support
10/100/1000Mbps data transfer rate. And the embedded ALC662 6-channel HD Audio
CODEC is fully compatible with Sound Blaster Pro standards that offer you with the
home cinema quality and satisfying software compatibility.
AMD 790GX series motherboards offer one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 by 16 deliver up to
8Gbyte/sec data transfer rate at each relative direction. The AMD 790GX
motherboards also carry two 32-bit PCI slots guarantee the rich connectivity for the
I/O peripheral devices.
Embedded USB controllers as well as capability of expanding to 8 of USB2.0
functional ports delivering 480Mb/s bandwidth of rich connectivity, these
motherboards meet the future USB demands which are also equipped with hardware
monitor function on system to monitor and protect your system and maintain your
non-stop business computing.
Some special features---
CPU Thermal Throttling/ CPU VID /CPU VcoreOC-CON
/G.P.I.Funtion
in this motherboard are designed for power user to use the
over-clocking function in more flexible ways. But please be caution that the
over-clocking maybe causes the fails in system reliabilities. This motherboard
provides the guaranteed performance and meets the demands of the next generation
computing. But if you insist to gain more system performance with variety possibilities
of the components you choose, please be careful and make sure to read the detailed
descriptions of these value added product features, please get them in the coming
section.
