Gigabyte GA- MA78GM — S2H Motherboard

The GA-MA78GM-S2H is GIGABYTE's next generation board is based on the new AMD

780G Chipset and support for the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors. It has

supports for DDR2 DIMM. It supports ATI Hybrid CrossFireX with interface PCI-E

2.0 x16. The motherboard has 6 SATA 3GB/s with Support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10

and JBOD function and Integrated HDMI/ DVI interface with HDCP. It has up to 12

USB 2.0 port. Motherboard was tested with 600 Watts SMPS, 120 GB SATA 7200rpm

HDD, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 2.01 GHz with 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM

with XP SP2 Operating System. The score for BW was good with 36.5. While the

Performance vs Speed scores for Sis of Sandra was 338 and 0.50ns/MHz. The scores

for 3D Mark, PC Mark and Pov-Ray benchmarks were 6454, 9324 and 49152

respectively. Cinebench 10 scores were 1835 1CPU and 6731 xCPU. Using NVIDIA

GeForce 9600 GT the scores obtained for the Gaming performance of UT3, Crysis

and Company of Heroes were 45.56 frame relay, 33.19FPS and 137.0 FPS

respectively Overall performance is very good.

Bottom Line: This motherboard has as many as 12 USB ports and the

price is comparatively much lesser