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Asus M3A78-T

First glance at this board gives the impression of a simple, yet very efficient layout. Before we even take a closer look, I just want to say that Asus did a good job with the layout of the board. Everything is placed very well on the board, and there were absolutely no issues at all in setting up and using the board. Also, as you first look at the board, you can see that it does not have a heatpipe system for cooling - I am sure that part of this is a cost decision. The board supports up to 8GB (64bit systems only) of DDR2 Memory at speeds of 1066/800/667/533 and 400MHz. It supports dual channel memory architecture, as well as ECC and non-ECC modules. Asus went with a small aluminum heatsink for the SB750 chip. We had no ssues with heat at all while we were using the board, so it is a sufficient cooling solution. The Asus M3A78-T motherboard has 3 x16 PCI-E slots on it. The top PCI-E slot is fully 2.0 compliant, and runs at a full x16 mode. The black PCI-E slot is also fully 2.0 compliant, but runs at x4 speeds only.

ECS A790GXM-A

The A790GXM-A is ECS Black Series platform based on the best combination of the new AMD 790GX and SB750 chipset plus support for the latest 140W Phenom quad core processors up to HT 5200 MT/s with Hyper Transport 3.0 technology links and integrated DDR2 1066 memory controller on the latest AM2+ platform. The A790GXM-A provides the AMD latest technology Hybrid Graphics and CrossFireX technology. It also supports for AMD Special SidePort Memory for the extreme graphic performance computing and UVD 2.0, DirectX 10, PCI Express2.0 HDMI/HDCP for Full HD Video entertainment.

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