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AMD 790FX Phenom Chipset On Linux

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Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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Back in November AMD had launched their "Spider platform", which is made up of AMD's first quad-core processor, ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics, and the AMD 7-Series chipsets. While we were quick to cover the ATI Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 graphics under Linux, today after much testing we are finally delivering our first Linux report from AMD's new 790FX Chipset. Is the chipset that's designed for PC enthusiasts and performance seeking overclockers worth anything under Linux? Does this chipset even work with the latest Linux desktop distributions? We'll be answering these questions and more, as we look at the Gigabyte MA790FX-DS5 motherboard.

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This review has four pages of motherboard details with some excellent pictures, one page that explains on how to flash the bios from Linux, and a paragraph telling us that Linux ran fine. The reviewer at Phoronix haven't even show us an 'lspci' dump from the system running Linux, I was expecting much more from a headling like this : "today after much testing we are finally delivering our first Linux report from AMD's new 790FX"

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