Photos of ASUS M5A99X EVO Motherboard for AMD FX Processors
Have a look at photos of the ASUS M5A99X EVO motherboard. Based on the AMD 990X + SB950 chipset combo, it is designed for octa, hexa, and quad-core AMD FX processors codenamed Zambezi.
ASUS M5A99X EVO features 8-phase Digi+ VRM and can host one (x16) or two (x8+x8) graphics cards working in AMD CrossFireX or NVIDIA SLI. The third PCI Express x16 slot powered by the Southbridge most probably works as x4. There are also two PCI Express x1 slots and PCI slot.
ASUS M5A99X EVO has four memory sockets for DDR3-1866. Storage drives can be connected to chipset's six SATA 6Gbps ports (RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10). Another two SATA 6Gbps ports are provided by the additional controller.
Speaking of USB 3.0, there are four ports, two of which are internal.
Finally, there's an 8-channel Realtek codec, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a FireWire controller from VIA.
The list of proprietory technologies includes EPU (Energy Processing Unit) and TPU (TurboV Processing Unit), as well as UEFI with a graphical user interface.
The official release is slated for mid-June.
Source: XFastest
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