SB750 : OverDrive Extreme & Raid 5 Posted on 29/05/2008 at 13:08 by Nicolas
Historically, the SouthBridge has (too) often been the Achille’s heel of ATI and AMD chipsets and without surprise as the buyout of the former by the latter has not resolved all problems on this level. The SB700, which accompanies recent AMD 7xx Northbridges, is moreover no exception as certain functions such as Raid 5 were curiously missing.
The SB750 now supports this function according to Foxconn which has announced the A79A-S, an AMD 790FX motherboard equipped with this new SouthBridge. The Taiwanese company specifies moreover that it also enables support of OverDrive Extreme (which corresponds to the 3.0 version of AMD’s utility) and therefore to optimize the overclocking of Phenom processors.
Historically, the SouthBridge has (too) often been the Achille’s heel of ATI and AMD chipsets and without surprise as the buyout of the former by the latter has not resolved all problems on this level. The SB700, which accompanies recent AMD 7xx Northbridges, is moreover no exception as certain functions such as Raid 5 were curiously missing.