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It's not that significant of an increase either way and one could even treat it as a SB600 version 2 effectively.įor the enthusiast however, there's an interesting nugget on the SB750 by AMD in the form of Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC), a new feature which can allow for higher overclocks on a Phenom processor due to some internal mojo that AMD engineers have done and which they won't reveal besides saying that it involves connecting unused pins on the Phenom CPU to the SB750 Southbridge in order to change the CPU's internal timings.
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There's also a new Southbridge, the SB750, which is a minor upgrade to the SB700 Southbridge (addition of RAID 5 functionality) and a decent increase in the number of SATA and USB ports if your previous board is on the SB600. Naturally, AMD's Hybrid Graphics is supported so you can pop in a Radeon HD 3450/70 card and enable CrossFireX if you choose to, though we aren't too optimistic about the performance gain. While such a practice is not limited just to the 790GX chipset (for example, Gigabyte has a 780G board enhanced with SidePort memory), it's an almost standard feature now on the 790GX class of boards. Additionally, this new integrated GPU (known as the Radeon HD 3300) has access to a dedicated memory bank dubbed SidePort memory to ensure even better performance with some local memory. Despite this, there remained a product segment gap between the mid-range 780G and AMD's designated enthusiast chipset, the 790FX which is the first 7-series chipset supporting the new Phenom processors and an integral part of AMD's Spider platform.ĪMD's reply was to beef up the Radeon HD 3200 integrated GPU (a disguised Radeon HD 2400 PRO) on the 780G by having the same GPU running at a higher core clock. The 780G however is a solely mainstream product, which is why it's proving to be a popular choice among system integrators. With its decent integrated graphics performance, the 780G also became the basis for AMD's new Puma mobile platform. Intel was yet to deliver on its newer 4-series chipset then and its older 3-series integrated solutions with its GMA 3100 were obviously not up to the task of taking on the newcomer, especially with its Avivo HD hardware. When AMD launched its 780G chipset early this year, it was hailed as one of the best integrated chipsets in the market.