Asus M4 Motherboards Do AMD Phenom II X6

[mindless728]

Good luck with that, mindless. The US website doesn't even list it anymore. You have to go to the Global (English) website to find it listed, and even then there's no specific page for it when you click on that board. They must be in the middle of updating something, because I can't get links to work for lots of ASUS boards no matter what site of theirs I'm on.

Apparently the 790X w/ SB750 and 785G w/ SB710 combos can support Phenom II X6's. Gigabyte released an updated BIOS for two boards I own enabling Phenom II X6 support - the GA-MA790X-UD4P and GA-MA785G-UD3H. Previous thoughts were that X6 support would be limited to 790/890-series northbridges and 750/850-series southbridges...

actually its funny that you mention it, since i found it on their ftp site, not just the motherboard, but the new BIOS as well

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/274237-30-m4a78-owners-bios-update

 

[Guest]

I went from a 286-12 to 2 386DX-40's to 2 486Dx4-100's through all the Athlons, now run 3 Athlon 64 X2 3000's all 3 with 3 gigs of RAM. My next upgrade is the Quad Core's that will run on AM3 motherboards, one generation back always, I save a lot of money, both not using Intel and waiting for the price breaks from being one generation back. I have gone through over 30 hard drives, now running only SATA3's 16-32 cache. The BIGGEST problem is AMD dumping Nividea for ATI !!!

 

[rajiv1990]

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

Guess why people do go for wrong upgrades-A six core for checking mails...

i am thinking that the manufacturers have decreased the prices of the hardware so that every power user or even the mainstream can get hold of a six core processor.But still what do these companies think the users are gonna do with those extra cores except they are useful in a very few applications.I should say that most users don't use it's full capabilities and it's only those benchmarking softwares that have really started using the six cores. :lol:
or might be some heavily threaded applications which still aren't under consideration of many programmers.Those extra cores are wasted unless the programmers come up with heavily threaded apps which does not seem to happen as they are more difficult.

The chip manufacturers are still trying to get more of the performance by adding more cache memory in the chips,but amd has still not tried that on their hexa cores.These guys really need to come with some really new architecture to get more performance or try the gpgpu things as they have a strong line in the graphics market.And AMD's step to use APU s is really welcoming but still not promising.

Still as technology improves we are getting more transistors in our hand but we need to think whether they really worth for any better performance...

Seems like i am far away from the topic 😛