GIGABYTE announces support for AMD AM3/AM2+ 45nm Processors

GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards announced support for 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 GeForce8200.

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 said in its release that it has tested tested and verified the following products support AMD® AM3 /AM2+ 45nm CPUs by upgrading to the BIOS version listed.

And now user can download the latest BIOS version by using Gigabyte’s @BIOS utility that searches online for the latest BIOS while operating in the MS Windows environment. It can be downloaded from Gigabyte website.