Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-A Review

Mar 24 2008 @ 09:47PM by jimmy

Think Computers has reviewed the 790FX based Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe/WiFi-A. Buy.com has this motherboard here for $233.99 with free shipping.

The major point of frustration was incessant crashing in Windows XP 64-bit while the main SATA controller was in IDE mode. This should not happen Ever. ASUS was unable to reproduce the error, though. I'm sure it's the board or Windows itself, as I tried multiple hard drives and rearranged RAM in multiple configurations. A second point of frustration may or may not be ASUS's fault: I could not get USB mass storage devices to function properly in Ubuntu, even with ASUS's official drivers. After a few megabytes were transferred, USB would die except for my keyboard, which allowed primary input but the extra keys would not work (Logitech G15 Gamer). I'm still tracking this down, and am hoping that it's a kernel issue solved in a kernel more recent than that which is included in Gutsy (2.6.22). Hardy beta will be released by the time this article is published, perhaps I'll report in the forums if it works.

 

More Quad-core, Tri-core Phenoms Roadmapped

Mar 23 2008 @ 08:50PM by jimmy

DailyNDA Break has details on AMD's Phenom roadmap.

"AMD's first updates to its performance segment will take place a quarter of the way into Q2 2008, AMD will unveil two new Phenom processors: the AMD Phenom 9750 and the Phenom 9850. The Phenom 9850 features a 125 Watt thermal envelope and runs at 2.5 GHz, while the Phenom 9750 runs at 2.4 GHz and features a 125 Watt TDP. Around this time another configuration of the Phenom 9750 will be released, but this processor will feature a lower 95W TDP.