900 Series: Bulldozer Ready
The rumor on the street is that Asus makes a few motherboards. They may or may not be the world’s leading motherboard manufacturer. Asus may also have a pretty good reputation for quality and innovation in their products. It is tongue in cheek hour at PC Perspective. All joking aside, Asus anymore is the gold standard for quality manufacturing and design in motherboards.
Some months ago AMD released their AM3+ capable chipsets, though the release was not nearly as exciting as we had hoped. The AMD 900 series of chipsets are essentially the same silicon as those that power the non-integrated AMD 800 series. There are three SKUs that are currently available for the 900 series that Asus makes motherboards around.
Podcast #156 - AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x and more!
Subject: Editorial, General Tech | May 26, 2011 - 02:04 PM | Ken Addison
Tagged: R6970, podcast, nvidia, Intel, firepro, amd, 990x, 990fx
PC Perspective Podcast #156- 5/26/2011
This week we talk about the AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900, MSI R6970 Lightning, Intel i7-990x,Viewer questions and more!
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Program Schedule:
- 0:00:45 Introduction
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- 0:01:45 AMD FirePro V7900 and V5900 Professional Graphics Review
- 0:05:25 MSI R6970 Lightning Review: A Supercharged AMD Radeon HD 6970
- 0:16:35 This Podcast is brought to you by MSI
Computer , and their all new Sandy Bridge Motherboards! - 0:17:20 Intel Core i7-990X Gulftown Processor and DX58SO2 Motherboard Review
- 0:22:30 NVIDIA GTX 560 Review Coming soon
- 0:24:36 Cray Announces AMD Bulldozer CPU and NVIDIA Tesla GPU Supercomputer Capable of 50 Petaflops
- 0:27:38 Sneak Peak at the MSI 990FXA-GD65
- 0:30:13 ASUS Sabertooth Motherboard Supporting 990FX Chipset Pictured
- 0:32:33 Email from Jeff about Bulldozer leaks
- 0:36:00 Revisiting quad-gpus and the Law of Diminishing Returns
- 0:39:58 Leaking Llano and Bulldozer prices
- 0:43:57 Corsair Hydro H80 and H100 Water Coolers On The Horizon
- 0:46:30 Email from Bernie about desktop standby mode
- 0:51:05 Email from Jesse about overclocking temps
- 0:53:40 Hardware / Software Pick of the Week
- Ryan: Lucid Virtu - its working
- Jeremy: Remember Action Quake? How 'bout a little Action Half Life 2, still less buggy than your average commercial release and better supported.
- Josh: DiRT 3: Love it.
- 0:59:30 THIS JUST IN: Asus ROG Matrix GeForce GTX 580 Graphics Card Details Leaked
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- 1:02:00 Closing
The fast get faster
Introduction
With all the news and excitement about the Sandy Bridge architecture, platform and processors from Intel since their launch in January, it is easy to overlook the Nehalem architecture that continues to sell and be integrated into the fastest consumer PCs available. Remember Nehalem and its three digit model numbers? You really have to stretch that memory as it was before the CPU/GPU combo of Sandy Bridge and even before the Clarkdale / Lynnfield processors that began the move towards lower cost dual-channel memory based processors.
It seems odd to think that today we are taking a step BACK in time to review the new Core i7-990X processor and a very nicely upgraded X58 motherboard from Intel in the form of the DX58SO2. The Core i7-990X is a Gulftown (6-core) processor that in many cases becomes the fastest consumer processor on the market and flagship CPU for Nehalem and the “Extreme Edition” suffix. Replacing the i7-980X, the 990X will fill that $999 processor segment for extreme enthusiasts and high end system builders.
AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets to get NVIDIA SLI Support
Subject: Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Chipsets | April 28, 2011 - 09:45 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: sli, nvidia, amd, 990x, 990fx, 970
In a move that is long overdue, NVIDIA's Tom Peteresen announced on a blog post that SLI multi-GPU support was finally going to be offered on AMD platforms with the upcoming launch of the AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets. On previous AMD platforms users have not been able to use multiple NVIDIA graphics cards in SLI because NVIDIA simply did not allow licensing of the technology on them. As of this month, that policy is changing.
According to the post, NVIDIA has had a change of heart and wants to "make sure gamers can benefit from the new CPU competitive landscape and ensure they have NVIDIA SLI – the highest performance, most stable multi-GPU solution - to game on!" The lack of SLI on previous chipsets was the result of Intel being the dominate CPU platform of choice for gamers in recent years.
ASUS, Gigabyte, ASRock, and MSI are going to be the first out of the block with motherboard based on the AMD 990FX, 990X and 970 chipsets with SLI support according to NVIDIA's Petersen.
This doesn't change NVIDIA's stance on the whole licensing and charging motherboard vendors to integrate SLI thing, however. In an ideal world, NVIDIA would have announced that they were opening up SLI to work on ANY motherboard, future or present, that has enough PCI Express slots on them, just like we see today with AMD's own CrossFire technology. Despite pressure to do that, NVIDIA is standing by its current formula and expanding into the realm of AMD chipsets.
Regardless, today is a good day for AMD fans and gamers alike that want more choice and more variety in their system build options for the future. The AMD Llano and Bulldozer-based processors just got a little more gaming friendly.
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