The Northbridge chip, which is called the 990FX/990X/980/970 and the paired (Southbridge ... support for SATA 6Gb/s for aggressive RAID and SSD configurations and all motherboards now have USB ...

AMD offers a grand total of six SATA3 (6Gbps) ports with their AMD 970 chipset. Below we show SATA3 6 Gbps (BIOS at AHCI mode) performance with a SATA3 SSD. The SATA3 based SSD connected to ...