Another board where the PCI-e x1 slot has been placed in an useless spot. For these kinds of boards, EVERY videocard will block it (since most if not all of them are 2-slot). So not usable for example an audio card. ASRock's 990FX Extreme3 had it right by placing the PCI-e x1 slot above the top x16 slot. Anyway, still awaiting AMD's 1090FX chipset.... which would be released somewhere in 2012.

Anyway, still awaiting AMD's 1090FX chipset.... which would be released somewhere in 2012.

you are hardcore at turning time around. Also interested with AM3+. Piledriver somewhat reasonable for multicore tasking.

A board for CF/SLI single-slot GPUs.

I'm kind of surprised no one did the homework on this. (aside from sverek who had no comment to the such) "4 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (PCIE1 @ x16 mode; PCIE3 @ x4 mode; PCIE4/PCIE5: single at x16 (PCIE4) / x8 (PCIE5) or dual at x8/x8 mode)" From ASRock site (for ref: http://*******/ajncz ) As you can see your x16 lanes are at location 1 and 4, meaning you can drop your sound card in location 3 and still run dual slot cards just fine. If your worried about heat, and that means your running cards are actually big enough to create that much heat, than going liquid cooled or a well planned air setup could easily be achieved. Although I would agree that no more than 2 could be handled in this fashion. Who needs more than two right? 🙂

Anyway, still awaiting AMD's 1090FX chipset.... which would be released somewhere in 2012.

Don't expect it anytime in the near future.

Don't expect it anytime in the near future.

Yeah, think so as well. Perhaps when Steamroller sees the light of day. Anyway, getting an 8320/50 is quite tempting.

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Yeah, think so as well. Perhaps when Steamroller sees the light of day. Anyway, getting an 8320/50 is quite tempting.

There's not much a new chipset would add anyway except PCI-E Gen 3 and maybe HT 3.1.