Gigabyte has now started selling its new Socket AM3+ motherboards on the Japanese market. Gigabyte has gone the way of ASUS and used the 8 series of chipsets and one of the motherboards is Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 3.1) that supports the coming AMD FX.
AMD will launch its new AMD FX family of processors in Q2 2011 and the first processors are expected to appear on the market in June. Based on the new Bulldozer architecture the chips will require the new Socket AM3+ platform to work. Even if AMD will launch the new 9 series of chipsets for Socket AM3+ both ASUS and Gigabyte have made sure they have motherboards sporting 8 series chipsets ready for the new processors.
Gigabyte has updated the box graphics and specifications to show the new support for AMD FX, even if the name of the name of the processor series isn’t mentioned, just Socket AM3+. Other manufacturers are expected to follow where ASRock has already launched its 890GM Pro3 R2.0 with the new AM3+ socket.
Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 3.1) comes with a black processor socket that supports the new AM3+ processors and memory frequencies up to DDR3-2000 through overclocking. This is a new feature that is lacking with GA-890FXA-UD5 (rev. 2.0).
ASUS has revealed that it has been anticipatory and support the new AMD FX processors with all revisions of multiple AMD 8 series motherboards. Gigabyte’s new AM3+ motherboards are based on AMD 890FX chipset.
Source: Akiba
