Asus M4 Motherboards Do AMD Phenom II X6

yeah, with the core unlocker it's easy to unlock latent cores, but it depends on the cpu if the unlocked cores are stable or not ... so the performance boost is not guaranteed.

2.8 ghz phenom II x6 for 199$????? F me sideways

This is good news for ASUS owners. Let's hope other manufacturers follow suit.

From that lineup, it would appear Thuban's are fully capable of being dropped into existing AM3, as well as AM2+ motherboards, provided they have the 790GX/FX and SB750 chipsets. Though, I see no mention specifically of the 790X Northbridge, as found in the M4A79XTD EVO.

wow if those price predictions are true that's insanely cheap, they're really putting up some hard competition for intel.

dammmmmm

beats the hell out of intels 6 core prices

Nice to know ASUS is keeping those of us who bought boards recently well updated. Glad to know my board will support Thuban, as i might end up grabbing one later in the year.

I am waiting for the 885g motherboard to build some HTPC's for people. Im hoping they'll have an ATI Radeon 5200 at least.

I am waiting for the 885g motherboard to build some HTPC's for people. Im hoping they'll have an ATI Radeon 5200 at least.

Oooh AMD every cycle I think im going to go back to using an Intel chip, bam theres another great deal. Ill have to see if Intel will have a similarly priced 6 core in the fall when I upgrade, but if not AMD prob will get another system out of me.

I cant afford to spend more then $300 on a cpu; and I do a lot of rendering, so extra cores do provide a noticeable benefit. That 3.2 6 core to replace my old 4 core 2.6, sounds dreamy.

I wonder if it can OC on air to 4ghz stable.

Could you clarify if the prices you stated are expected MSRP or are they tray prices?

I haven't purchased a quad core yet, and six 2.8 GHz cores might be worth while for video editing... but $$$ is a factor (just don't have $800 to build an i7 system right now).

I bet Monday there is a news article that MSI is updating the bios on their K2 line and up.

A freakin 3.2 ghz six core cpu for only $295??? I wonder what its overclocking potential is. A 4 GHz six core CPU for under $300 sounds really nice...

What is most impressive about the 6 core Thuban's is the TDP! 125w @ 6 cores while my quad core 965 runs at the same! AMD is doing a great job at manufacturing.

I just bought a Pii 965 a few months ago, and it rocks! But a Thuban for $300 is just to much insanity to wrap my head around...I think I need to take my pills...And im glad they are including us AM2+ owners. I love my board and dont see any benefit of going AM3 yet, I mean come on I already have 8gb ddr2.

gosh, dontcha just love AMD's socket compatibility...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/d [...] ssors.html

From that source and a few others, it seems these cpus will have individual core clocking as a feature similar to turbo boost on the Intel cpus. If thats true, the 3.2ghz (3.6ghz) cpu should easily take down some i7s and *maybe* come close to the 980x.

Wow! I mean, we all know that Intel's Core i7 is in a league of it's own, but a 6 core Phenom Black Edition at 3.2 Ghz for 295$ is the definition of value for money!

If I were to build a computer in the next two months I would certainly look into this. I mean, sure, Core i5 750 is all good and the i7's too, but this looks so good you almost don't have to think much. Unless there is some unforseen caveat, if we can extrapolate from the Phenom II X4 955 architecture, like I said, this will be value for money!

nice to see the AM2+ M4A78-E is supported, thanks asus

better than what happened with my M2NSLI-DELUXE (NO PII support officially)

Where is the 890FX motherboard....

Still looking into the Crosshair edition of the mobo 890FX

Wow now i'll be able to check my email without any lag

I have no idea what I'm going to do with a 6-core processor!

Software really needs to catch up (I guess visually with the GUI) to take advantage of people who have fast processors and newer GPU's. It should be a feature on every software program that you can turn off if you have an older computer...like Windows Aero

This.

If you look at how AMD has done business in the past, it's never really been about offering the fastest CPU. However, AMD has always been a "value" solution. This has been the case since the AMD 486 DX-4 133; a CPU that was proven faster than the first Intel Pentiums. Some might not be old enough to remember the battle between Intel, AMD and Cyrix back in the 486 through Pentium II days.

For the record, I'm not a loyalist toward AMD or Intel. I look at price vs. performance. Right now, AMD still has that covered. If they can offer a 6 core CPU for 200 bucks, I'm all in. I should also mention that I do number crunching for the WCG, so cores DO matter.

The motherboard manufacturers have always kept up with AMD and Intel.

I've had various Intel systems for about 10 years now, but looking at the price, it is hard to justify anything other than AMDs 6 core CPU.

What’s getting gamers so excited about 6 cores? Most games don’t even utilize quad cores let along 6 cores. And for those games that do utilize multicores, the performance gain is minimal (look at the Intel 6 core review). In fact, does anyone actually expect AMD 6 cores to be any faster than i7s with hyper threading which basically acts like 8 cores?

I run both a Q6600 and PII X4 925 and I see no reason to upgrade until 8 cores came out or games actually uses more than cores.

You forget that even though the game may not utilize more than one core your system does, every core you add to your system spreads out the additional load off the rest of the cores from the systems basic operations leaving more clock-time dedicated to the game since no matter what core your game uses it still is shared among system tasks. Regardless of what your game utilizes you will always "in general" see an advantage of extended cores "if you use something post xp". Pop open your task manager and go to processes look at how many threads are running and that's split among your processors. It is important to also take into account improvements into the processors architecture not just the additional processing cores.

who says all we use it for is games? i encode video on a daily basis and would welcome any 6 core with open arms!

Even if the x6 phenom II wasn't "any faster" than an i7, it's still cheaper than an i7 setup..

Too bad it doesn't allow two threads per core like an i5/i7 does...

i found it funny that nobody really cared about the motherboard news here and started foaming at the mouth at that last bit in the article. Goddam AMD im finally going to upgrade my 7750 dual core.

Agree, AMD has had many moments where it saved us all a lot of money with good all round performance!

And yes, I do remember those good times you mention! I'm not only old enough, but the proud owner of a functioning Compaq Presario CDS 720, originally powered by an AMD 486SX2 66Mhz (no math co-processor, no Doom playing), and that motherboard can run a 486DX4 100Mhz, AMD's 5x86 133Mhz (unoficially named 485 DX5, equivalent to a Pentium 75Mhz in integer performance), Cyrix 5x86 100Mhz (more or less a hybrid between a 486 and a Pentium, also equivalent to a P75), and the Pentium Overdrive 83Mhz, whose performance widely varied with the amount of L2 cache installed, but maked out at, again, P75 levels. And I have them all (bought second hand for pennies or brand new old stock). My favourite all-rounder is the Cyrix

wow 6 cores for 199 is crazy...if intel doesnt cut the prices then we will cut intel )