ASRrock announces 890FX AM3+ Bulldozer ready motherboard

Uriel · 14 Feb 2011 at 13:40

http://www.techpowerup.com/140422/ASRock-Readies-AM3+-890FX-Deluxe5-Motherboard.html

Impressive that ASRock are going to be putting this out with an existing chipset. They seem to have one of the most innovative R&D teams of any of the main motherboard manufacturers.

Now if they can just figure out how to get Bulldozer supported on existing motherboards with a simple BIOS update...

Edit: My title is misleading. It appears that this is more of a leak than an announcement.

HighlandeR · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:40

Nice to see Asrock pushing it, but perhaps a bit too early

Perhaps they know the real lauching date and its much sooner then June...

chipps101 · 15 Feb 2011 at 20:55

lol asrock do quite a lot of strange but impressive stuff, they even have a skt 939 board based on the 790gx chipset.

Uriel · 15 Feb 2011 at 22:26

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AM3-socket-Zambezi-890FX-Deluxe5-AMD-990FX-9-series,12191.html

Release coming end of Feb.

kristmace · 16 Feb 2011 at 09:39

Uriel said:
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AM3-socket-Zambezi-890FX-Deluxe5-AMD-990FX-9-series,12191.html

Release coming end of Feb.

Really? So in the next 2 weeks.

Should be very interesting.

rypt · 16 Feb 2011 at 09:40

Ergh, semi-old tech board ... not impressed or interested

Predicament · 16 Feb 2011 at 11:35

neato.

are ASUS, Gigabyte, and MSI making boards for the AMD's new chipset?

Redmint · 16 Feb 2011 at 11:39

Nice 3 slot separation between the top 2 PCIE slots.

marcus_667 · 16 Feb 2011 at 11:41

best board asrock ever did was the 939 dual sata 2 !! class board

PapaLazaru · 16 Feb 2011 at 11:44

Uriel said:
Now if they can just figure out how to get Bulldozer supported on existing motherboards with a simple BIOS update...

Is this actually feasable?

I would love it if it was. Will be a shame to ditch my Crosshair IV so soon.

Uriel · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:57

PapaLazaru said:
Is this actually feasable?

I would love it if it was. Will be a shame to ditch my Crosshair IV so soon.

I don't think so. Everything AMD has put out in the last few months suggests otherwise.

Although, having just swapped a motherboard for the first time under Windows 7, it's not the hassle it once was.

If it's always as easy as I've just experienced, swapping a motherboard is barely more troublesome than swapping a graphics card or CPU, as long as you've got a retail copy of Windows.

Unless any of the bulldozer chips offer better bang for buck in games than my £30 3.4GHz Phenom FX-5200 I'll be sitting tight for a while