Today AMD company presented the integrated chipset 790GX, which formally accompanies the release of the south bridge SB750, which ensures an improvement in the overclocking potential of AMD processors .

The same south bridge will appear also on many motherboards, based on AMD 790FX chipset, but those desiring to secure SB750 with smaller price have to focus on motherboards based AMD 790GX chipset - they are already proposed for approximately $150.

The graphic core on AMD 790GX chipset is radeon HD 3300 , which also supports DirectX 10 and UVD. In the new chipset the graphic core operates at 700 MHz frequency , whereas the core in 780G chipset operated at 500 MHz frequency . The North bridge is produced on 55 nm technology.

AMD 790GX north bridge supports the technology crossFire according to : PCI express x8 + PCI express x8 . One of the innovations chipset update consists on local buffer support : memory cache performance .The integrated graphic core can work with discrete video card, as implies the hybrid crossFire technology .

According to AMD forecasts , paired with Radeon HD 3470 the integrated core radeon HD 3300 can rise the speed to the level Of radeon HD 3650. Motherboards producers can realize with AMD 790GX support to the majority of contemporary interfaces. For example, gigabyte motherboard include a ports D -Sub, DVI and HDMI.