Wednesday, May 4th 2011
ASUS M5A99X EVO Motherboard Pictured
Here is the first picture of the M5A99X EVO, an upcoming socket AM3+ motherboard by ASUS based on the AMD 990X + SB950 chipset designed AMD's FX-Series "Zambezi" 8-core, 6-core, and 4-core procesors. The AMD 990X is designed for discrete graphics with up to two graphics cards in CrossFireX. It is likely that the final iteration has NVIDIA SLI support out of the box. The AM3+ Black socket is powered by 8-phase Digi+ VRM, cooled by a large heatsink that sits next to the northbridge heatsink. ASUS came up with a new heatsink design theme. While the P8P67 series uses heatsinks with curvy/wavy fins, the M5A series uses sharp edges.
The AMD 990X northbridge gives out 16 PCI-Express 2.1 lanes split between two x16 slots. When both slots are populated, the graphics cards run on x8 bandwidth. The third black x16 slot is wired to the SB950 southbridge, and is likely x4. Other slots include two PCI-Express x1 and a PCI. Storage connectivity includes six SATA 6 Gb/s ports from the SB950 southbridge that support RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10 modes; a third-party controller drives two additional SATA 6 Gb/s internal ports. We don't know if there's another such controller handling eSATA.Other connectivity features include at least two USB 3.0 controllers made by ASMedia (ASUS subsidiary), two internal USB 3.0 ports by header (for front-panel or bracket), and probably two more ports on the rear panel. There's Realtek-made 8-channel HD audio, a gigabit Ethernet connection, and VIA-made FireWire controller.
AMD FX-Series processors natively support DDR3-1866 MHz memory standard, there are four DDR3 memory slots wired to the socket, support dual-channel memory. The board supports various overclocking and energy-efficiency features, including EPU (energy processing unit), and TPU (TurboV processing unit). With this generation of chipset, the AMD platform is transitioning to UEFI as the system firmware standard. ASUS will give this board a mouse-driven graphical user interface for its UEFI setup program. The immediate benefit of UEFI is the ability to boot from volumes larger than 2.2 TB in size.
The ASUS M5A99X EVO is likely to be launched in mid-June.
Source:
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The AMD 990X northbridge gives out 16 PCI-Express 2.1 lanes split between two x16 slots. When both slots are populated, the graphics cards run on x8 bandwidth. The third black x16 slot is wired to the SB950 southbridge, and is likely x4. Other slots include two PCI-Express x1 and a PCI. Storage connectivity includes six SATA 6 Gb/s ports from the SB950 southbridge that support RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10 modes; a third-party controller drives two additional SATA 6 Gb/s internal ports. We don't know if there's another such controller handling eSATA.Other connectivity features include at least two USB 3.0 controllers made by ASMedia (ASUS subsidiary), two internal USB 3.0 ports by header (for front-panel or bracket), and probably two more ports on the rear panel. There's Realtek-made 8-channel HD audio, a gigabit Ethernet connection, and VIA-made FireWire controller.
AMD FX-Series processors natively support DDR3-1866 MHz memory standard, there are four DDR3 memory slots wired to the socket, support dual-channel memory. The board supports various overclocking and energy-efficiency features, including EPU (energy processing unit), and TPU (TurboV processing unit). With this generation of chipset, the AMD platform is transitioning to UEFI as the system firmware standard. ASUS will give this board a mouse-driven graphical user interface for its UEFI setup program. The immediate benefit of UEFI is the ability to boot from volumes larger than 2.2 TB in size.
The ASUS M5A99X EVO is likely to be launched in mid-June.
56 Comments on ASUS M5A99X EVO Motherboard Pictured
If anything MSI's 890FX-GD70 make more sensewww.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 for only $194.99USD
Me on the other hand ASUSTek guy : started back @ 2005 with this firm (don't remember which mobo's name but it was ASUS/AMD/Nvidia combo) then M3NHT-Deluxe/HDMI & 955BE, now M4N98TD-EVO/965BE/2xGTX 460s. Next up Crosshair V Formula/AMD FX-8130P/2xGTX 600-series (maybe 3-way SLI GTX 600-series, yet again - maybe).
What about BigBangConqueror ? :) Good luck with this board you chose, looks good.
MSI, Gigabyte & ASUS in Israel as well charge premium price for top-line products; it's known worldwide. Being BBC (BigBangConqueror not TV channel, lol) is based on 990FX (though i remember it's more 890FX mobo ?), it will be priced aggresively; but - so will C5F; bet it'll still be priced lower in PC store near me (and so does C5F). You ask both CFX & SLI built in one 990FX/X chip, they ask for premium - that's a given. M4N98TD-EVO is still priced lower but abit more than half-a-grand sheckels requiered to purchase it (for aging 980a SLI-based mobo). By end of August i shall know; gonna buy the following :
Mobo : Crosshair V Formula;
CPU : FX-8130P;
PSU : Corsair's AX1200W;
RAM : any (prefferably Corsair's) DDR3 1800/1866MHz 2x4GB dual-channel modules/sticks;
HDD : WD VelociRaptor 600GB SATA 6Gb/s 32Mb cache 10k RPM drive. (no SSD : 480GB SATA 3Gb/s costs 10,000/15,000 sheckels=10 times more than this HDD)
Imagine what premium i'll pay for those even by end of August & you talk that premium for BigBangConqueror is overkill; compared to it all those will rip my wallet bit more than marginally. Great AMD's 8-cored/SLI'd year i expect. :toast:
*UPDATE*
Saw the Crosshair V Formula article after Google'ing for possible pics of mofo & saw that it supports obvious "MemOK!", "ROG Connect", as well as "TurboV EVO" technologies; gotta be awesome soft installed on my future AMD FX-8130P/990FX PC !!!!! Link : www.techlemming.com/2011/05/06/asus-rog-crosshair-v-formula-am3-bulldozer-motherboard/
This bad-arse mofo will be awesome & after GTX 680/670 released - f***, this will be a shame not to OC this & see how will OC'd FX-8130P/2xGTX 670s rip the guts out of any Westmere/SandyBridge/etc.... in synthetic/gaming/CPU benchies !!!!! Great news to get closer to June 11, isn't it ? Regular features include SATA 6Gb/s, USB 3.0 & SupremeFX X-Fi 2, but it's already known & beaten to death or something like that. :laugh:
P.S. Same goes for M5A99X, excluding EPU/TPU & other small features.