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The regional announcement of barcelona processors  , which passed in Japan, brought some unexpected news.  ASUS company demonstrated the motherboards, intended for work in the composition of platform FASN8 – two-processor system , characterized by several video cards. Let us recall that the appearance of AMD FASN8 platform is planned for the beginning of 2008.
Here is the motherboard ASUS L1a64 WS, based on AMD RD790.
This motherboard is equipped with two processor socket ( socket F+ ) for the installation of the promising four core processors phenom FX. Furthermore, there are four slots PCI express x16 (connected to the system bus PCI express x8), intended for four video card AMD. As it is expected, three video card will work in the regime triple crossfire and the fourth video card will be occupied by physical effects acceleration  .
The future AMD chipset is characterized by a comparatively low heat emission. There is no high end cooling on the motherboard ASUS L1a64 WS .
Furthermore, ASUS representatives confirmed that old two-socket Quad FX motherboard ASUS L1N64-SLI WS on base of NVIDIA nForce 680a will be also compatible with four core processors class barcelona after BIOS update . Related Products :
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