14 DAY TRIAL // While the Mobile World Congress expo is still foremost in peoples' minds right now, there are still those that have no trouble releasing PC hardware, like ASRock, who claims to have created the first Zambezi-ready AM3+ mainboard.
Some users may have already heard about the Fusion Black processors from Advanced Micro Devices, otherwise known as Zambezi.
ASRock appears to be in quite a hurry to provide a platform capable of making the best of their prowess, so it put together the 890FX Deluxe5.
As its supposed press release has it, it is an ATX model powered by the AMD 890FX + SB850 chipset, while its socket is compatible with not just the aforementioned units, but also existing AM3 Athlon II and Phenom II chips.
Granted, for now, only the layout drawing of the product is available, meaning that ASRock still has to build it and mass produce it, which may or may not be soon.
Either way, the purpose is to ensure that users have a mainboard available that can accommodate every new AM3 CPU/APU as soon as they get released.
Basically, ASRock wants to be the first to support the Zambezi chips. An extra motivation may be the fact that Intel-powered motherboards have stopped selling because of the 6-Series chipset flaw, so demand for AMD-based hardware may go up in short order.
For those that want specifics, the plan is for the 890FX Deluxe5 to feature four DDR3 memory slots, three PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, two PCI Express x1 slots and a pair of legacy PCI ones.
Additionally, six SATA 6 Gbps ports are present, as are two SATA 3 Gbps (apparently) and an IDE connector.
What's more, ASRock threw in (or will throw in when it actually builds the motherboard) eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 ports and no less than six USB 3.0 connectors (two by header).
Finally, 8-channel HD audio is available, in addition to optical and coaxial SPDIF and FireWire.