Despite the unpromising codename, AMD’s 790GX prototype reference board is already out of the labs. It is codenamed Betta and we can imagine that in some language this is someone’s girlfriend's name.

The new board will be a holy matrimony of RS780D Northbridge and SB750 Southbridge.

The RS780D is a codename for AMD 790GX chipset and this chipset promises to be the fastest IGP kid on the block. At the same time it brings better 3Dmark performance in Hybrid graphics mode.

The board bets on performance cache memory, 2 PCIe gen 2 graphics ports with HT3, 6 SATA 2.0 devices, 12 USBs together with RAID 5 support. Raid 5 is the biggest difference between SB700 and SB750 and 750 is fist ATI chipset to have Raid 5.



The board itself is full ATX form factor with 2PCIe 2.0 graphic slots, and one PCIe 1.0 and PCIe 2.0 in between its two graphics slots. The board also come with two rather obsolete PCI slots. We tend to notice that Southbridge has passive heatsink while Nortbrige comes with a small fan. The board has 4 memory slots, DDR2 of course.

The board will support Phenoms with 140W TDP and it promises extreme overclocking. We shall see how good it is as early as June.