BIOSTAR Motherboards unveils to support
AMD Socket AM3 & Athlon™ II processors

The Upcoming AMD socket AM3 and Athlon™ II Processors will launch in June, 2009. The new socket AM3 & Athlon™ II family, which will make the current Phenom II series processor to break the 3.2GHz maximum clock, and the other benefit is reducing the processor TDP to 45~95W range.

BIOSTAR Microtech Int'l Corp. a professional manufacturer of motherboards and one of the well-known AMD platform solution provider, today proudly announces to support AMD next generation processor – socket AM3 and Athlon™ II CPU, bringing the breakthrough performance to your PC.

Notes :
If you plan to use the latest AMD's processor, there is a chance the system may fail to boot for existing motherboards in the market. Please update bios with existing compatible AM2/AM2+ CPU if you encounter this situation. If bios is already updated to support AM3 processors, then no bios update will be necessary.

BIOSTAR AM3 / Athlon™ II Processor Ready Motherboard List

Motherboard
Chipset
BIOS revision
TPower N750 (rev. 5.X) NVIDIA nForce750a SLI from N72PA416.BSP
TA790GX A3+ (rev. 5.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from 78DAA414.BST
TA790GXE 128M (rev. 5.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from 78DFA422.BST
TA790GX 128M (rev. 5.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from 78DEA417.BST
TA790GX XE (rev. 5.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from A78CM417.BST
TA790GXE (rev. 6.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from
TA790GXBE (rev. 6.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from
TA790GX3 A2+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from A78DA417.BST
TA790GXB A2+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from 78DDA417.BST
TA790GX A2+ (rev. 5.X) AMD 790GX / SB750 from 78DBA417.BST
TA790XE (rev. 6.X) AMD 790X / SB750 from
TA780GE (rev. 6.X) AMD 780G / SB710 from
TA780G M2+ HP (rev. 6.X) AMD 780G / SB710 from A78BM417.BST
TA780G M2+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 780G / SB710 from A78GM417.BST
TA760G M2+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 760G / SB710 from A76GM417.BST
TA770E (rev. 6.X) AMD 770 / SB700 from
TA770 A2+ SE (rev. 6.X) AMD 770 / SB700 from A78BA416.BST
TF720 A2+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA nForce 720a from N78VA416.BST
A760G M2+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 760G / SB710 from A76GM417.BSS
A770 A2G+ (rev. 6.X) AMD 770 / SB700 from A78BA416.BF
A780G M2+ SE (rev. 6.X) AMD 780G / SB700 from A78GM417.BSB
MCP6P M2+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA GeForce 6150 / nForce 430 from 61PBM413.BFS
MCP6PB M2+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA GeForce 6150 / nforce430a from 61PCM413.BFS
GF8100 M2+ TE (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA GeForce 8100 from N78CM428.BSS
GF8100 M2G+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA GeForce 8100 from N78DM416.BFS
NF520 A2G+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA nForce 520 from N52CA505.BF
NF720D A2G+ (rev. 6.X) NVIDIA nForce720D(or 720a) from 78DA417.BFS

*For more information of CPU support, please refer to webpage of each model.