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Friday, January 16, 2009

AMD Phenom II reached 6.4GHz by Team Japan

AMD Phenom II reached 6.4GHz by Team Japan

Team Japan member kyosen, futto-kun,CAL930,donbe reached 6.4GHhz durimg their overclock party last weekend.


Thursday, January 15, 2009

AMD 790FX Northbridge

AMD 790FX

  • Codenamed RD790
  • 65 nm CMOS fabrication process manufactured by TSMC
  • 4 x Physical PCI-E x16 slots and discrete PCI-E x4 slot, the chipset provides a total of 42 lanes solely in the Northbridge
  • HyperTransport 3.0 with support for HTX slots and PCI Express 2.0
  • ATI CrossFire X
  • AutoXpress
  • AMD OverDrive

AMD 790GX NorthBridge

AMD 790GX

  • AMD 790GX use 55 nm CMOS fabrication process manufactured by TSMC
  • Integrated graphics is Radeon HD 3300
  • Side-port memory as local frame buffer, support DDR2 and GDDR3 modules.
  • 2 x Physical PCI-E x16 slots at x8 bandwidth
  • HyperTransport 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0
  • ATI CrossFire (Hybrid CrossFire X)
  • AMD OverDrive
  • ATI Hybrid Graphics
  • ATI PowerPlay technology
  • Energy efficient Northbridge design

AMD SB750 Southbridge

AMD SB750

  • AMD SB750 support up to 6 SATA 3.0 Gbit/s hard disk drives, with RAID 0, 1, 10 support
  • eSATA support
  • AMD SB750 support up to 14 USB ports (12 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 1.1)
  • I/O acceleration technologies
  • AMD SB750 improved support for SATA 3.0 Gbit/s and USB
  • Consumer Infrared receiver/transmitter port compatible with IrDA standards
  • Additional management and security technologies such as IDM (Intelligent Device Management) and TPM (Trusted Platform Module).
  • DASH 1.0 support
  • RAID 5 support
  • SB700 internal clock generator malfunction fix
  • Super I/O
  • Enhanced CPU overclocking for K10-based processors only, originally named "OverDrive 3.0"

Monday, January 12, 2009

AMD Phenom II cooled by Liquid Helium at -234C

AMD Phenom II cooled by Liquid Helium at -234C

CPU : AMD Phenom II X4 940
Pot : F1 EE
Frequency : 6 GHz
Stability : 3DMark05 stable