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ASRock A780FullDisplayPort AMD 780G+SB700 mainboard Conclusion
This is our 4th AMD 780G board we reviewed on OCWorkbench. I am sure you are impressed by the image quality and the 3D performance of this new chipset. As this board is released later than the others, we managed to run it with the official Catalyst 8.3 drivers. In terms of performance, this board performs equally well in comparison with the boards tested. In fact, the major differences would be the features of this board in contrast to the rest. In terms of design, this board supports a PCIe x16 slot, 6 SATA II ports, GbE, HDA, HDMI, USB, 1394 etc. One thing that ASRock has put in is the DisplayPort support. Not only that, ASRock foresees the upcoming high end processors and incorporated support for Phenom 9850 using a 5 phase PWM design. Although some manufacturers will use a 4 phase PWM that claims support for high end Phenom, a 5 phase will definitely be a better choice. Secondly, ASRock A780FulDisplayPort also incorporates the DisplayPort add on card (comes bundled). This makes it the first AMD 780G board to support 4 display standards - D-SUB, DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort.
The board has some minimal settings for overclocking. One of the interesting option is the GPU CLK which can be tuned from BIOS. In our test, we managed to run it at 700MHz. It could been higher if there is an option to adjust the north bridge voltage. As for CPU overclocking, the BIOS do have options to set the HTT (200~500MHz), multiplier, async memory settings and voltage options. The voltage options seems to be quite limited in BIOS. See gallery for more information. As we are using a X2 5000+ Black edition, we are able to increase the multiplier to 17X giving us 17x200=3.4GHz. Our next quest is to find out what it the max HTT we can do for this chipset. We were only able to go as high as 330MHz x 6. In conclusion, ASRock delivers a very impressive product that is innovative and future proof. With it's capability of playing back of HD movies in H.264/AVC, this board paired with a X2 5000+ should be sufficient for all your playback needs without the need to purchase an additional graphics card.
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