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Phenom 9950

Consumers have been able to purchase a Phenom X4 9950 processor for a couple of weeks now. The 9950 comes in two models, the regular version and a BE version, which is the Black Edition. So the BE editions in essence are the 'regular' processor, yet they passed quality and analysis for better overclocking performance and have their multiplier unlocked. The Phenom X4 9950 BE is the cream of the crop processor of the quad-core product line, it runs at 2600 MHz on all four cores with a multiplier of 13. But really, it doesn't mind 3000 or 3200 MHz either. The die size of the CPU is 285 mm² and for whatever reason we always like to know the CPU has 450 million transistors. The processors are manufactured in AMD's Dresden plant and make use of AMD's 65 nm SOI-fabrication.



Voltages for the cores and memory controllers can be set independently from each other on Socket AM2+, which in the end has everything to do with power consumption. With socket AM2+ you'll also be able to make use of DDR2-1066 MHz memory, while on socket AM2 you'll be limited towards 800 MHz. Each core can be clocked down independently if not utilized, saving heaps of current. There's also a new status called C1E (check in the BIOS). If the processors are temporarily inactive, they can pretty much put themselves in sleep-mode (clocking down).

ECS A790GXM-A

This ECS mainboard comes with 2 PCI, 2 PCIe x16 (either 1 x PCIe x16 or 2 x PCIe x 8 for CrossFireX) 2 PCIe x1 slots. The board incorporates 2x Realtek Ethernet (RTL 8111C) and Realtek ALC 888S 8-channel HD audio. First impression, pretty decent design. A passive copper cooler sits on ECS Elitegroup A790GXM-A north-bridge and black heatspreaders on its power circuitry (MOSFETS). Also located there is a 128 MB memory module of DDR3-1333 memory. This mainboiard also support S-ATA RAID with Six S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5 support. Though it's fake-raid (CPU based). The 790GX incorporates four power-saving improvements that you supposedly don't have on the 780G boards:

• A deep sleep on the side-port memory, yielding up to 1.7 W of savings.
• Driver and BIOS enhancements made to AMD’s PowerPlay technology -- save up to 3.1 W as well.
• Onboard voltage scaling -- another 900 mW
• Support for the C1e power state approaches 6 W of savings.

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Albatron KI780G

Albatron Technology has announced the KI780G Mini-ITX mainboard featuring the AMD 780G chipset, claiming the top-dog spot in the Mini-ITX market. This Mini-ITX board’s most distinguishing feature is the AM2+ socket and support for powerful 4-core, 3-core AMD Phenom processors. The KI780G is able to handle up to 65W processors. Another nice feature on this board is 128MB side-port DDR2 memory dedicated for use with the VGA card, increasing 3D performance by 10% and eliminating the need for the graphics system to borrow shared system memory.

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