Review : Mainboard Layout of ECS A780GM-A Ultra AMD 780G+SB750 Mainboard Review
Bluetooth  27 Nov 2008

The board comes with a 5 phase voltage design which is rated to support a 160W CPU.  It has 3 PCI and 1 PCIe x1 on board. Realtek and GbE 8 ch audio codec are sighted on board.  Both north, south bridges are cooled passively with copper coloured heatsink.

The board supports four 240-pin unbuffered non-ECC DDR II SDRAM DIMM sockets with up to 8GB of memory can be installed on board. For AM2 processors, DDR2-533/667/800 is supported. For Phenom AM2+, memory supported is DDR2-667/800/1066. It also support Asynchronous clocking mode between FSB and DIMM.

The new SB750 supports 12 USB connectors compliant with USB2.0 from embedded USB controller (6 connectors at rear panel another 6 with brackets). The SB750 supports S-ATA RAID with 6 S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5 support. The eSATA port and IDE port is supported by Jmicron chip JMB361.

At the bottom left hand corner of the board are the power and reset switch which comes in handy for those who loves to tweak with system parameters.

At the rear panel are PS/2 keyboard connector. There is a D-SUB, HDMI. There are 6 USB ports, 1 eSATA, 1 GbE and 8 ch HDA audio ports with SPDIF digital out.