“Gigabyte brings us AMD’s Spider Platform in the form of their GA-MA790FX-DQ6. This board sports an impressive array of features among the main attractions are Phenom and Crossfire-X support.”Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- Foxconn X38A – a Motherboard on the Intel X38 Chipset @ DH
- SUS Maximus Formula (Non-SE) @ Bjorn3D
- ASUS P5K Pro motherboard review @ Elite Bastards
- Asus Blitz Extreme Review @ OCC
- Foxconn Blackops Motherboard Prototype @ Hardware Secrets
- ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi-AP Intel P35 Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- Motherboard Roundup Jan 08 (Asus Maximus Extreme, Asus Maximus Formula, MSI P35 Platinum Combo, Asus P5E3 Deluxe, MSI X48 Platinum) @ DH
Spiders!!!
The Intel Skulltrail will probably beat the pants off of any AMD Spider platform you can build, but on the other hand Gigabyte’s GA-MA790FX-DQ6 will only set you back about $300, half the price of the Skulltrail motherboard. It will also be much easier to find, as it is not limited to 2000, total. [H]ard|OCP checks out this Spider platform board and it’s 2 pair of PCI Express slots, a x16 pair and an x8 pair, which will do either x16, 16×16 or 8x8x8x8 if you go all out and pick up 4 graphics cards. Once again, we see that if anything is holding back the performance of AMD platforms, it’s not the chipsets on their boards.
