ASRock has introduced a few AMD 780G mainboards in the past. As it is a mature chipset, we won't spend time looking at the performance of the embedded graphics as our smart readers are well aware what 780G offers. This north bridge offers an integrated Radeon HD 3200 DX10 graphics with 128M Side port memory support. It also supports the seldom talked about Hybrid CrossFire. In fact, the more important update is the paired south bridge. Instead of the SB700, this board uses a newer south bridge SB710. In fact, SB710 isn't a very new product. It's feature set is similar to the SB750. SB710 is basically a SB750 with the RAID 5 support removed. It is a way to cut costs when especially pairing it up with an aged north bridge.

As the SB710 is the little brother of SB750, it inherits the AOD ACC support. If you remember, we revealed that the boards with SB750 with ACC enabled actually turns on the 4th core on the tri core processors. Would SB710 be able to achieve the same effect, turning a tri core X3 710 or 720 into a full fledge quad core processor by just enabling the ACC to enabled in the BIOS?

A780GMH/128M

1. Support for Socket AM2+ / AM2 processors: AMD Phenom™ FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core / Athlon X2 Dual-Core / Athlon 64 / Sempron processor
2. Solid Capacitor for CPU power
3. Support for Socket AM3 processors: AMD Phenom™ II X4 / X3 and Athlon II X4 / X3 / X2 processors
4. Supports AMD OverDrive™ with ACC feature (Advanced Clock Calibration)
5. Supports Hyper-Transport 3.0 (HT 3.0) Technology
6. AMD 780G + SB710 Chipsets

* FSB 2600 MHz (5.2 GT/s)
* Supports Dual Channel DDR2 1066 with AM2+ CPU, and DDR2 800/667/533 with AM2 CPU, with 4 DIMM slots, maximum capacity up to 16GB
* Integrated AMD Radeon HD 3200 graphics, DX10 class iGPU, Pixel Shader 4.0, Max. shared memory 512MB
* Integrated 128MB side port memory for iGPU
* Supports ATI™ Hybrid CrossFireX™
* 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (green @ x16 mode)
* 6 x SATAII 3.0 Gb/s connectors, support RAID (RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and Hot Plug functions
* PCIE Gigabit LAN 10/100/1000 Mb/s
* Three VGA Output options: D-Sub, DVI-D and HDMI
* Supports HDCP function
* Supports Full HD 1080p Blu-ray (BD) / HD-DVD playback
* Supports ASRock Instant Boot
* Supports Smart BIOS, ASRock OC Tuner, Intelligent Energy Saver
* 7.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (VIA® VT1708S Audio Codec with QSound)
* Windows® Vista™ Premium 2008 Logo Ready
* I/O Panel: 1 x VGA/D-Sub Port, 1 x VGA/DVI-D Port, 1 x HDMI port, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Port with LED, 4 x USB 2.0 Ports

G1 - ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard Review - Introduction
G2 - Mainboard Layout of ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard Review
G2a - Detail Mainboard Layout of ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard Review
G3 - Chipsets on board ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard (Review)
G4 - BIOS Screen shots 1 of ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard (Review)
G5 - BIOS Screen shots 2 of ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard (Review)
G6 - BIOS Screen shots 3 of ASRock A780GHM/128M AMD 780G+SB710 Mainboard (Review)
 

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