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Asus M4A79T Deluxe review

Does AMD's take on DDR3 sock it to Intel? Not quite

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-03-03March 3rd 2009

Price at launch £169.00
Description Socket AM3 Motherboard (Supports: AMD Socket AM3 Phenom™ II/Athlon™ X4/Athlon™ X3/Athlon™ X2 Processors)
Features AMD AM3 CPU support / 8+2 Phase Power Design / EPU / TurboV / Turbo Key / Precision Tweaker 2 / ASUS Anti-Surge Protection / Express Gate / ATI CrossFireX™ Technology Support
BIOS Type AMI
Front Side Bus Up to 5200 MT/s HyperTransport™ 3.0 interface for AM3 / AM2+ CPU 2000 / 1600 MT/s for AM2 CPU
LAN Details Realtek® 8112 Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2
Max No. Of Processors 1
Motherboard Type ATX
No of DIMM Slots 4
No of PCI Express x16 slots 4
No. of PCI Express 2.2 Slots 2
Number Of Additional USB Ports Supported 6
Number Of USB Ports On Motherboard 6
Onboard Sound Properties Realtek® ALC1200 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
Onboard sound Yes
Processor Socket Socket AM2plus
RAM Type DDR3
Storage/Storage Controller SB750 Chipset
Supported RAM Size (GB) 16

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Product Summary

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Bandwidth headroom for future multi-cores

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Partial backwards compatibility

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Little immediate performance benefit

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Lack of high-end AM3 CPUs

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