The Crosshair V Formula Z with AMD 990FX chipset-based
Key specification:
- Form Factor: ATX Form Factor, 12”x 9.6” (30.5cm x 24.4cm)
- Socket: AMD Socket AM3+ for FX™ / Phenom™II / Athlon™II / Sempron™ 100 Series Processors
- Chipset: AMD 990FX / SB950 Chipset
- Graphics interface: 3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (dual x16; x16 x8 x8)
- Expansion Slots: 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 speed) 1 x PCIe 2.0 x1, 1 x PCI 2.2
- Multi GPU: Supports 3-Way NVIDIA® SLI™ / AMD CrossFireX™ Technology
- Memory: 4 x DIMM, max. 32GB, DDR3 2133(O.C.)/2000(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 MHz, ECC and non-ECC, un-buffered memory, Dual channel memory architecture
- Audio: SupremeFX X-Fi 2 built-in 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- LAN: Gigabit Intel® Ethernet LAN
- Storage: 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, red, - 1 x SATA 6Gb/s port, red, - 1 x eSATA 6Gb/s port, red
- USB: 6 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports (4 at back I/O, blue; 2 at mid-board), 12 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports (7 ports at back I/O, black, 4 ports at mid-board, 1 port at back I/O can be switched to ROG Connect, white)
- Manageability: WOL by PME, WOR by PME, PXE
ASUS 990FX Sabertooth Posted by: Aditya Gune December 26, 2011
The Southbridge for the new platform is still the same old SB850 except it is being renamed to SB950. While the chip is a year old, it’s not completely outdated so it is still a good choice. It supports six SATA 6Gbps and 14 USB 2.0 ports. The lack of USB 3.0 is a bit of a disappointment. To be fair, the latest Z68 chipset only supports 2 SATA 6Gbps and does not offer USB 3.0 support. So at least AMD offers more SATA 6Gbps. Still, we would prefer to see USB 3.0 natively supported. There are four additional PCI-E 2.0 x1 lanes available on the chip. Finally, keeping with backward compatibility, the chip still supports the aging PCI 2.2 and parallel ATA.
MSI 990FXA-GD80
• 1 PCI slot, support 3.3V/ 5V PCI bus Interface.