Via TechConnect: "Asus will be getting some competition soon as its water-cool-lovin' Republic of Gamers motherboard will have to soon face MSI's HydroGenX38. The upcoming motherboard features Intel's hot and heavy X38 chipset and it comes with a cooling system made by Watercool.de that will cool more than just the northbridge. The HydroGenX38 will actually come in two versions, a DDR3-only one that will be released first, followed by a 'Combo' version that will come with support for both DDR3 and DDR2 memory. The rest of the specs look the same for both boards, two PCIe 2.0 x16 slots, 7 SATA 3.0 Gbps ports, two Ethernet ports, two eSATA ports, one IDE connector and 8 USB 2.0 ports.


MSI [also] announced the first RD790-powered motherboard, the K9A2 Platinum. Set to be marketed as 790 FX, the new RD790 chipset makes MSI's board support all current AM2 CPUs and the AM2+ Phenom X4, X2 and X3s that will be released in the coming months. The K9A2 Platinum comes with no less than four PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots for Quadfire (aka Double-Crossfire) setups, it supports DDR2 memory at 800 and 1066 MHz and HyperTransport 3.0 in addition to featuring a new copper-constructed Circu-Pipe cooling solution as seen below. The board comes with integrated 7.1 channel audio, it has a 5 phase PWM design and one Gigabit port, six SATA 3.0 Gbps connectors, 10 USB 2.0 ports, two IEEE1394 connectors and MSI proprietary technologies like Dual CoreCell. Unfortunately, the board's price and retail availability have not been revealed."

Are you looking to upgrade your mobo soon?

Yes, within 1-2 months

Yes, within 2-4 months

No, I'm satisfied with what I have.

Source @ TechConnect Magazine