AMD 7 series motherboards...

[dario77]

i struggled seriously with which subsection to post this in, as it has much to do with chipsets (particularly NB+SB combination), but its more a gripe with motherboard manufacturers in general...

so....790fx is supposed to be king poop of AMD boards, but even the top-tier models from the top-tier manufacturers (lookin' at you, gigabyte ds/dq!!!) haven't adopted SB700 yet....

my question is...why? is it just newegg not updating the specs to reflect newer board revisions, or is it because we're only a month (allegedly only that long) out from 790gx (SB750)???

seems to me your average informed consumer would have a far easier time shelling out 50+ bucks extra for 790fx over 780g if they could get one with SB700...

oh, and if i could impose....this is a thread about AMD motherboards. any reference to intel must be ON TOPIC, as in it must show a relevance (for example, any intel chipsets that went through multiple SB configs) to the discussion. lets keep this a civil discussion, please.
just saying that "mobo makers are ignoring AMD cause INTEL ROOOLZ AN' AMD DROOLZ" is neither helpful, nor needful.
k?
k...
now, discuss...

 

[akhilles]

But the average user doesn't overclock and even doesn't care about what's in the box as long as it's a good price & it works. The informed one may care about the parts, but still they don't care about the chips used on the parts. We're a tiny group of the entire market.

I was tempted to pick up a SB750 + Phenom 9850 to beat the Polish guy who did 3.7ghz, but the price is still too high to me.