Gigabyte Reveals the A88X Series Motherboards
Gigabyte has launched two new A88X motherboards, as well as listed more that will arrive in the future.
Gigabyte has launched two new motherboards for the upcoming AMD Kaveri APUs, though they will also support the existing Trinity and Richland APUs. The motherboards, which will be known as the Gigabyte G1.Sniper A88X and the F2A88X-UP4, will feature the FM2+ socket. The former is also the first AMD G1-Killer gaming motherboard that Gigabyte has ever made. In addition, Gigabyte has also released a list of other A88X motherboards.
The G1.Sniper A88X will feature Gigabyte's AMP-Up Audio technology, as well as Dual-UEFI BIOS, digital PWM, and support for up to three displays. The AMP-Up Audio Technology allows for the motherboard's OP-AMPs to be replaced, the system is built with higher-quality audio components, and it is placed on a separate part of the PCB.
The FM2+ socket also offers support for the PCIe 3.0 standard, as well as DirectX 11.1. The motherboards should also be able to drive up to 4K displays through either the HDMI port or the DisplayPort interface.
Gigabyte is also launching the F2A88X-D3H, F2A88X-HD3, F2A88XM-D3H, F2A85XM-DS2, and F2A88XM-HD3, the last three of which are likely Micro-ATX motherboards. At the time of writing there were no further details on these motherboards.
There was no word on pricing or availability.
Very nice looking boards from Gigabyte.
Is it wrong to add high end flavour to the FM2 socket, it was mostly the masses that branded a A-Series lowend, but for what the socket offers you get lots for little, forgive me for not complaining.
I have a feeling you are dead on. There have already been rumors that the FX-9590 may be the last FX CPU, and it seems about time to update from the AMx(+) sockets, so I would not be surprised to see the high end CPU offerings moved over to the FMx(+) sockets and rebadged as something different.
Will be nice too thanks to the severe lack of any quality mATX or mITX boards for AM3+, and even a lack of many high end features seen standard on other platforms on the full ATX side, all of which the FMx(+) platforms seem to have.
streamroller cores i suspect will boost it to i5 3470 or hell stomp all over it and i own a i5 3330 and it suitable for gaming
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3330-vs-AMD-A10-6800K
and have you seen the energy draw of a 8350 a fx 6300 is far better performance per watt and enough for gaming to me only a idiot buys a 8350 for gaming as its just as expensive as a i5 lol all i hope for is that steamroller is more energy efficient then
if they can keep
energy down
core clock up
and better gpu
That will sell it really i wouldnt be surprised if a10 streamroller kicks a i5 3470 in the teeth and a8 will kick i3 in the teeth leaving only i7 as intels main selling point
i just hope they fix the video encoding as i believe trinity and richland suffered from this
as for fx cpus hando i believe streamroller will be on the am3+ socket i believe i read that somewhere
streamroller cores i suspect will boost it to i5 3470 or hell stomp all over it and i own a i5 3330 and it suitable for gaming
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3330-vs-AMD-A10-6800K
and have you seen the energy draw of a 8350 a fx 6300 is far better performance per watt and enough for gaming to me only a idiot buys a 8350 for gaming as its just as expensive as a i5 lol all i hope for is that steamroller is more energy efficient then
if they can keep
energy down
core clock up
and better gpu
That will sell it really i wouldnt be surprised if a10 streamroller kicks a i5 3470 in the teeth and a8 will kick i3 in the teeth leaving only i7 as intels main selling point
i just hope they fix the video encoding as i believe trinity and richland suffered from this
as for fx cpus hando i believe streamroller will be on the am3+ socket i believe i read that somewhere
Had no choice of 6800K so went with both previous generations http://anandtech.com/bench/product/675?vs=363
Nobody knows what is going to happen with Steamroller outside AMD.
streamroller cores i suspect will boost it to i5 3470 or hell stomp all over it and i own a i5 3330 and it suitable for gaming
http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i5-3330-vs-AMD-A10-6800K
and have you seen the energy draw of a 8350 a fx 6300 is far better performance per watt and enough for gaming to me only a idiot buys a 8350 for gaming as its just as expensive as a i5 lol all i hope for is that steamroller is more energy efficient then
if they can keep
energy down
core clock up
and better gpu
That will sell it really i wouldnt be surprised if a10 streamroller kicks a i5 3470 in the teeth and a8 will kick i3 in the teeth leaving only i7 as intels main selling point
i just hope they fix the video encoding as i believe trinity and richland suffered from this
as for fx cpus hando i believe streamroller will be on the am3+ socket i believe i read that somewhere
Had no choice of 6800K so went with both previous generations http://anandtech.com/bench/product/675?vs=363
Nobody knows what is going to happen with Steamroller outside AMD.
true to form trinity isnt much better then richland its probly 10 percent better the issue with richland is its memory 2133mhz i believe due to the boards not supporting it properly least the a75 could have been fixed by now which may have bumped that up as apus take advantage of high memory
plus my main point is they perform enough how many people are going to want more then 60 frames and this doesnt state if its got the 6670 amd ddr5 with it which effects the peformance alot and i can get both for roughly the same price as a i5 2400
which ranges from 130 to 140
my main point is in most tests not all it can be damn fairly close in every day peformance and server work loads
gaming it does just dandy for the every day user and kaveri has had alot of news hell the fm2 + boards are suspected to hit this month sometime so kaveri will just be round the corner probly december or january as i read somewhere they were pushing it for more performance which clearly states that there still trying possibly to dominate i3 and i5 areas
Forgive me for asking, but which FM2 cpus do not come with Radeon cores? A quick search on AMD.com shows that all APUs have Radeon cores. I agree with you that AMD seems more focused on APUs right now, so there will probably be better ones coming and more support for them, and all Intel CPUs have integrated graphics now anyway.
It may be worth looking into for the performance/dollar.
Forgive me for asking, but which FM2 cpus do not come with Radeon cores? A quick search on AMD.com shows that all APUs have Radeon cores. I agree with you that AMD seems more focused on APUs right now, so there will probably be better ones coming and more support for them, and all Intel CPUs have integrated graphics now anyway.
It may be worth looking into for the performance/dollar.
hes most likely refering to amd athlon fm2 series