Motherboard Sapphire Pure CrossFireX 790GX supporting DDR3 and AM3 is noticed in the sales
As a partner for production of AMD graphics cards ATI Radeon families and FirePro, Sapphire company does not forget about motherboards on the set of system logic AMD.
New product in this category was the Pure CrossFireX 790GX board with support for DDR3 memory and processor performance AM3, «light up» Sapphire on the stand during the exhibition CeBIT 2009. According to the source, the board has seen in a Japanese store, where she has a price of about $ 190.
The basis for the charges was a bunch of AMD 790GX + SB750. The fee is CPU socket AM3 and four slots for memory DIMM DDR3 aggregate amount of up to 16 GB. Power processor implemented on a «5 +1 phase».
Cooling system north bridge and power of the food chain consists of heat pipes. The south bridge has its own small radiator.
Opportunities are provided with expansion slots, two PCI-Express x16. If both slots are occupied, the configuration takes the form x8 and x8.
Since their switch line is absent, this function is attributed to the expansion card, included in the second slot: so you can select all 16 lines of graphics card installed in the first slot (see bottom picture). Integrated graphics processor card belongs to a family of Radeon HD 3300 and equipped with 128 MB of memory SidePort-DDR3. The fee is equipped with connectors HDMI, DVI and D-Sub.
