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The first AMD socket AM3 processors will appear in February, but elder model phenom II X4 945 (3.0 GHz) will generally appear during April 2009. These processors will work with socket AM2+ or Socket AM2 motherboards after Bios update, but in this case they can only use DDR-2 memory . However, the advantage of socket AM3 consists in DDR3 memory .
Socket AM3 processors models already begin to be extended in small circles. Associate acknowledged that such processor, according to its characteristics correspond to the model Phenom II X4 945 ( right photo ):

It is possible to identify socket AM3 with the absence of two pins on the processor (right photo):
ECS company already presented the motherboard Model A790GXM-AD3 based on AMD 790GX + SB750. South bridge SB750 is capable to fully reveal the overclocking potential of AMD processors .
The north bridge AMD 790GX, besides the integrated graphic core radeon HD 3300 with hybrid CrossFire support , propose the support of two video card in CrossFire X regime according to : PCI express x16 + PCI express x16. Four DIMM slots for this motherboard are prepared to accept up to 32 GB dual-channel memory DDR 3-1333.
The motherboard power system is made according to five-phase and it is equipped with its own radiator ( imposing sizes ). Related Products :
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