Gigabyte GA-990FX gaming, AMD 990FX Motherboard - Socket AM3 + [GA-990FX-GAMING]

Like him, he has over the smaller series of 800 and 900 series mainly through better connectivity of the graphics card (s), as 32 instead of 16 PCI Express lanes available and thus higher bandwidth will allow.

For this reason, the 990FX is predestined for multi-VGA configurations. Opposite the 890FX does not only combinations of several AMD cards (= Crossfire) are possible, but now also the use of multiple NVIDIA cards via SLI. The GA-990FX gaming connects to up to two AMD or NVIDIA graphics cards, including two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots are available, which are also connected electrically with full 16 data lines. even a tailed with 4 lanes PCIe 2.0 x16 slot and three PCIe 2.0 x1 slots for expansion cards Furthermore available. In addition, the 990FX has a higher compatibility and is fully applicable to AM3 and AM3 + CPUs.
 

AMD AM3 + platform with USB 3.1 Type C and M.2 with NVMe support for PCIe SSDs

A little highlight on Gigabyte GA-990FX gaming is also that there are on the I / O shield on the back of the motherboard two brand new USB 3.1 ports with Type A and Type-C connector, provided by the ASMedia ASM1142 additional chip. These new USB ports are maximum achievable speeds of 10 Gbit / s twice as fast as conventional USB 3.0 ports. The new USB Type-C port is particularly thin and can finally be connected at both ends.
 

Media such as SSDs and hard drives manages the board has six SATA 6G ports (incl. RAID support) and a horizontal M.2 slot, which is connected with four PCI-Express 2.0 lanes and thus high speeds of up to can achieve 20 Gbit / s. It can be used 42-80 mm length M.2 SSDs. In addition, the Gigabyte GA-990FX gaming still supports the new NVM Express protocol for modern PCI Express SSDs, short NVMe.
 

Thus the old AHCI protocol is replaced, which dates back to the period prior to the widespread use of SSDs and is practically hardly optimized for highly parallelized disk accesses. NVMe ensures much lower latencies and more and deeper command queue, which is reflected in significantly improved performance in non-linear transfers as 4K read / write.
 

The GA-990FX Gaming owns the black-red design of high-end motherboards from Gigabyte. In the remaining connectivity and -Total the extensive equipment list continues. This ranges from the modern USB 3.0 ports via a Killer E2201 LAN chip to gigabytes notorious "Ultra Durable" -Verarbeitungsqualität, an electrically insulated and even of an "Ambient LED" lit HD audio chip with 7.1 channels unadulterated sound enjoyment including interchangeable audio amplifier. In addition, this motherboard supports thanks to adequate power supply, the AMD FX processor 9000 series with its TDP of 220 watts.
 

Format: ATX (305 x 244 mm)

Color: Black

Chipset: AMD 990FX / SB950

Socket: AM3 + / AM3 (for FX, Phenom II, Athlon II CPUs)

RAM: 4x DDR3 (max 2.000 MHz.)

Dual-Channel

slots:

2x PCIe 2.0 x16

1x PCIe 2.0 x16 (electrical x4)

Compatible Multi-VGA configurations: 2-way CrossFire, 2-Way SLI

3x PCIe 2.0 x1

Internal connections:

6x SATA 6G (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD)

1x M.2 NGFF (PCIe 2.0 x4, max. 20 Gbit / s, horizontal, sizes 2242 to 2280, NVMe & SATA) 1x USB 3.0 header (by VIA VL805)

3x USB 2.0 header

2x 4-Pin fan (PWM)

2x 3-pin fans

1x TPM

1x Serial port header (COM)

Power / Reset / LED / Front-Audio

External connections:

1x USB 3.1 (Type C, through ASMedia ASM1142)

1x USB 3.1 (Type A, by ASMedia ASM1142)

2x USB 3.0 (by VIA VL805)

6x USB 2.0

1x Gigabit LAN (Killer E2001)

5x audio (7.1, ALC 1150)

1x S / PDIF optical

1x PS / 2 keyboard / mouse

Power supply:

1x 24-pin ATX12V

1x 8-pin EPS12V