ASRock has designed a new AM3 Motherboard which is based on AMD's 480X Xhipset, The motherboard supports AMD's new Six Core Processors. along with all the AM3 CPU's.
The motherboard supports DDR3 memory with speeds upto 1800Mhz. The AMD's 480X chipset itself was meant to be a value discrete graphics chipset which would support x8 lanes in crossfire GPU's. The southbridge is the the SB600 chipset which delivers four SATA 3 Gb/s ports. The motherboard comes with PCI-Express 1.1 x16, two PCI-E x1, and three PCI expansion slots while other connectivity features include Six channel audio, Gigabit Ethernet
, USB 2.0, serial and parallel ports. The board can also let you unlock disabled cores on X3 and Phenom II X2 processors. Overall the motherboard sounds great if released with the right price tag.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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