Phenom 9700, AMD's 1st Quad-Core CPU

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AMD Boards By MSI, Gigabyte And Asus

Representatives from Asus, MSI and Gigabyte were present at the introduction of the Spider platform in Warsaw and showed presented their designs.

slide show - Boards at the launch event

We already have boards made by Asus, Gigabyte and MSI in our lab, all of which work flawlessly with the Phenom processor. According to AMD, MSI's board is currently the best pick, though.

MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376)

MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376)

MSI K9A2 Platinum (MS-7376)

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6

Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe

Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe

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2 Comments Comment from the forums
  • spearhead
    good review but you should have had included more result of the overclocked phenom. i just want to know how much juce i you can push out of it for me it is a must it beats the 6400+ otherwise its not worth purchasing in my opinion, it just has to beat its older generation when its running at same clocks.that is why amd has to work on its clock speed and cache. hopefully deneb will be out soon. i would also realy appriciate it to see some review about the phenom 9850 black edition compared against both the 6000+ 6400+ and q6600 and q9300 and maybe some e8xxx model. with overclocked results. pushed it to the maximum. would be realy cool hehe :)
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  • haifen
    The SB700 does indeed support at least one PATA port as my motherboard has an IDE connector and I can use it with the ATIIXP PATA driver.
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