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This board is based on the 780a's little brother, the nForce 750a SLi, and the two are very much alike. The 750a ditches the nForce 200 completely, and despite a change in name, its MCP component is essentially identical to that of the 780a. This 65nm chip hosts not only core logic elements, but also an integrated graphics core very similar to what you'll find in the GeForce 8300. This graphics core is fully DirectX 10-compliant with 16 stream processors and support for Shader Model 4.0. More importantly, it's capable of full Blu-ray decode acceleration across AVC, VC-1, and MPEG2 formats, with HDMI output thrown in for good measure.

The nForce 750a has the same Phenom-ready HyperTransport 3 link as its high-end brethren, the same six 300MB/s Serial ATA RAID ports (that work in AHCI mode, I might add), the same dozen USB ports, and the same Gigabit Ethernet controller. The board is only rated for use with processors that have a thermal design power (TDP) up to 95W, leaving the Phenom X4 9850 and 9950 Black Edition CPUs that carry respective 125W and 140W TDPs off of the official compatibility list. We can, however, report that our board didn't seem to have any problems running a 9850 through our standard chipset test suite—at least on an open test bench.

Izvor: The Tech Report