During the AMD CTO Summit they displayed a number of 790GX motherboards and now that the NDA has lifted I can show the pictures that I took of the motherboards.
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Here are the four boards that I was able to take pictures of:
ASUS M3ST8T
MSI K9A2GX
Foxconn A7DA-S
Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4
- ASUS M3A78-T
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The ASUS M3A78-T Motherboard is the one we just
reviewed here, so I won't waste my time listing anything on it.
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Pictured above would be the MSI K9A2GX-Digital motherboard. This motherboard has a brown PCB and has two PCI Express x16 PCIe 2.0 slots.
Other than the two x16 PCIe slots you have two PCIe x1 slots and two PCI slots. There’s also five SATA connectors, headers for an additional six USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire port. MSI has also added power, reset and clear CMOS buttons located at the edge of the board, which is pretty slick. The chipset cooler looks like a place to put a mini flower pot or a shot glass and is interesting to say the lease. One thing that is really strange on this board is the fact that it uses dip switches for single and dual slot mode, which is strange as both slots should be x16 as it's a chipset feature... Really odd if you ask me.
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The MSI K9A2GX-Digital motherboard i/o panel has HDMI, DVI, and D-sub connectivity as well as a PS/2 port, six USB 2.0 ports, optical S/PDIF out, eSATA, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1-channel audio.
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The Foxconn A7DA-S is another nice looking board.The A7AD-S, which comes with HDMI, DVI and D-sub connectors, as well as a pair of PS/2 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, eSATA, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet and 7.1-channel audio. On top of this the board has two x16 PCIe slots, two x1 PCIe slots and two PCI slots, six SATA ports, headers for an additional eight USB 2.0 ports and one additional FireWire port. The 4-pin molex header for PCIe power is a bit strange as no card needs this.
The outputs on the board are also close to what the others offer.
1 x PS/2 keyboard port
1 x PS/2 mouse port
1 x VGA port
1 x IEEE1394a port
1 x HDMI port
1 x Audio jack supports 6 jacks
4 x USB 2.0 ports
1 x RJ45 LAN port
1 x DVI-D port
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The GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP-DS4H features 128MB of onboard DDR3 1333MHz SidePort Memory, allowing dedicated memory access for the integrated graphics for an added boost of up to 10~15% in graphics performance.
Last, but not least I have a picture of the final revision of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
