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Hardware 3/4/2008 Daily Hardware Reviews -- AMD 780G Edition
Gabriel Ikram (Blog) - March 4, 2008 6:34 PM

19 comment(s) - last by clovell.. on Mar 11 at 11:53 AM

The Gigabyte GA-MA780GM-S2H comes fitted with AMD's new 780G chipset (Source: TechReport)

DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday

AMD 780G
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ATI HD 3470 @ OCC
GeForce 8800 GS vs. Radeon HD 3850 @ LegionHardware
NVIDIA Quadro FX1700 512MB @ Phoronix
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Memory
Patriot Memory PC2-6400 4GB LL DDR2 Kit @ TweakTown

Cooling
33-Way Thermal Interface Material Comparison @ Benchmark Reviews
Cooler Master COSMOS S @ InsideHW

Display
ViewSonic VLED221wm LCD @ ComputerShopper

Audio
Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio @ Guru3D

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Microsoft Reclusa Gaming Keyboard @ Tweaknews

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The 780G board

By eye smite on 3/4/2008 10:18:01 PM , Rating: 4

The new AMD board looks good and they overclocked the energy efficient athlon x2 by quite a bit with it.

RE: The 780G board

By SandmanWN on 3/5/2008 12:05:26 AM , Rating: 2

THG overclocked the onboard graphics to 950mhz. Very nicely done AMD.

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RE: The 780G board

By clovell on 3/11/2008 11:53:21 AM , Rating: 2

I saw that - it scaled pretty well, too. This is really something - being able to run Quake 4 at playable framerates on an IGP before factoring in a 90% OC... Nicely done, indeed.

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RE: The 780G board

By ajfink on 3/5/2008 1:55:26 AM , Rating: 2

This will probably work out in AMD's favor.

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RE: The 780G board

By nugundam93 on 3/5/2008 8:54:21 AM , Rating: 2

this board definitely shows that AMD is slowly getting up after getting pummeled by the Core series.

i'd definitely consider this board as the core of my replacement desktop if i won't play games in moderation. oh wait, i keep playing games most of the time, so there.

yes, i've been intel all the way since the 486 days, but this board is something. :)

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RE: The 780G board

By Natfly on 3/5/2008 10:44:32 AM , Rating: 2

The new chipset and energy efficient cpu seems like a great combo for HTPCs. It really is a shame they didn't add RAID 5 in though.

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RE: The 780G board

By Mitch101 on 3/5/2008 3:32:21 PM , Rating: 2

Yea the Mobo's look great. Overall great numbers just wish they have a hard core CPU to go on it.

Graphics looking good
Mobos looking real good
CPU's well almost there

If I were working there I would be cracking the whip to get those 45nm CPU's going. Maybe even a little church time wouldn't hurt. Might even sacrifice a few chickens just to be sure all the bases are covered.

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RE: The 780G board

By clovell on 3/11/2008 11:07:12 AM , Rating: 2

The 5000+ Black Edition at $99 has got to be tempting though - people consistently hit 3.2 GHz on it, and 3.4 GHz isn't all that uncommon.

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RE: The 780G board

By Visual on 3/6/2008 7:31:07 AM , Rating: 2

The "built-in" raid with most motherboards is effectively software raid through the drivers anyway, so it is quite pointless. It doesn't offer anything better than other software raid options already available in windows xp and linux. Use them instead for your RAID 5

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RE: The 780G board

By Natfly on 3/6/2008 7:37:12 PM , Rating: 2

I was aware most motherboard raid is software based, but didn't know it was possible to do at the os level in windows/linux.

I read a little bit about dynamic storage (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314343 ) but see you can only create RAID-5 volumes on Windows Server variants, I don't know about media center editions. If one of the drives fails, how does windows still boot to rebuild the array?

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Anandtech

By wrekd on 3/4/2008 10:29:29 PM , Rating: 1

I was checking out Anandtech and I hit the Linux section...WTF?

I'm not a Linux zealot, just an average technophile. But I do expect a professional site to keep up with the times. It's like 3 years old.

Why even maintain it?

RE: Anandtech

By SlyNine on 3/4/2008 11:05:05 PM , Rating: 2

And yet you post this one DialyTech ?

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RE: Anandtech

By SlyNine on 3/4/2008 11:05:43 PM , Rating: 2

erm Daily

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RE: Anandtech

By BruceLeet on 3/5/2008 6:07:49 AM , Rating: 2

Whats wrong with Anandtech website buddy? It looks pretty clean and straight forward to me, none of those bubbly flash websites which are always buggy and annoying to navigate.

That being said, Anandtech is nothing like Apple - Design over Function =p

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RE: Anandtech

By BruceLeet on 3/5/2008 6:10:27 AM , Rating: 2

Whoa whoa whoa whoa..whoa....whoa....whoa

Auto-rated to 1 - Was it something I said?

"Design over Function"? Damn you!...Jason! =p

8)

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RE: Anandtech

By SandmanWN on 3/5/2008 9:17:09 AM , Rating: 3

Probably because you completely missed the point of his post. He was talking about the Linux review section and you posted something about the design of Anandtech website.

He's right by the way. There hasn't been a linux review since July of 05

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RE: Anandtech

By Mitch101 on 3/5/2008 10:11:02 AM , Rating: 2

I kind of feel up until Ubuntu there hasn't been much to talk about Linux. Its been out there but hasn't made any waves in a while.

Ubuntu kind of sparked renewed interest in Linux. It doesn't feel like a new kid on the block but one that Linux people might all migrate too.

I have to say a lot of people I knew who did Linux daily but were fragmented (Red Hat, Debian, I cant remember the third they specialized in) with different flavors of linux but are all in agreement with Ubuntu. Could also be that some versions of Linux aren't free any more either and Ubuntu is.

Knoppix is still in its own world and I highly recommend if you want to give Linux a try without installing Linux on your PC download a bootable copy of Knopppix that will run from your CD. Don't expect blistering performance from running on a CD version but it will give you an idea what linux is about.

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RE: Anandtech

By BruceLeet on 3/5/2008 12:57:11 PM , Rating: 2

Haha yes I got the point of his post AFTER I posted which always happens to me, its like 60% of the time...it happens everytime time.

I didn't get enough coffee before work this morning! But I got my afternoon Redbull for lunch and Im feelin...corky romano-ish-on-cocaine

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