Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2008 – GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today is pleased to announce support for the soon-to-be-released AMD 45nm processors including socket AM3 and AM2+ on a full range of current platforms including the AMD^® 790FX, 790GX, 790X, 770, 780G, 740G as well as the NVIDIA^® nForce^® 750a SLI and GeForce^®8200.

With a simple BIOS upgrade, GIGABYTE delivers an easy upgrade path for users wanting to take advantage of AMD's latest 45nm process technology enhancements including higher core clocks with greater energy efficiency over past generations, integrated DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (DDR3 memory support for AM3 processors and AM3 designed motherboards only), HyperTransport 3.0 and C1E enhanced power savings.

GIGABYTE has tested and verified the following products support AMD^® AM3 /AM2+ 45nm CPUs by upgrading to the BIOS version listed.

AMD^® AM3 /AM2+ 45nm CPU Motherboard Support List

Model Chipset BIOS GA-MA790FX-DQ6(rev. 1.0) AMD 790FX + SB600 F6D GA-MA790FX-DS5(rev. 1.0) AMD 790FX + SB600 F6 GA-MA790GP-DS4H(rev. 1.0) AMD 790GX + SB750 F2 GA-MA790X-DS4(rev. 1.0) AMD 790X + SB600 F5 GA-MA770-DS3P(rev. 2.0) AMD 770 + SB700 F4 GA-MA770-DS3(rev. 2.0) AMD 770 + SB700 FA GA-MA770-DS3(rev. 1.0) AMD 770 + SB600 F7 GA-MA770-S3(rev. 2.0) AMD 770 + SB700 FA GA-MA770-S3(rev. 1.0) AMD 770 + SB600 F6 GA-MA78GM-DS2H (rev 2.0) AMD 780G + SB700 FA GA-MA78GM-DS2H (rev 1.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F1 GA-MA78GM-S2HP (rev 2.1) AMD 780G + SB700 F4 GA-MA78GM-S2HP (rev 2.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F4 GA-MA78GM-S2H (rev 1.1) AMD 780G + SB700 F7 GA-MA78GM-S2H (rev 1.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F7 GA-MA78G-DS3HP (rev 2.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F4 GA-MA78G-DS3H (rev 2.0) AMD 780G + SB700 FA GA-MA78G-DS3H (rev 1.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F3 GA-MA78GPM-DS2H (rev 1.0) AMD 780G + SB700 F3 GA-MA74GM-S2H AMD 740G + SB700 F2 GA-MA74GM-S2 AMD 740G + SB700 F3 　 　 　 GA-M750SLI-DS4 (rev. 1.0) NVIDIA nForce 750s SLI F6 GA-M78SM-S2H (rev 1.0) NVIDIA GeForce 8200 F1