Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H - first AMD 690G with CrossFire and HDMI support mainboard

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Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H is first AMD 690G with CrossFire and HDMI/HDCP support mainboard.

We have reviewed many AMD 690G boards. Most of them uses DVI output while some uses HDMI. In fact, there are only 3 models out there that uses the HDMI interface with HDCP + audio support.



This time round, we take a look at Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H. This board is based on the AMD 690G+SB600 chipsets. What makes this board different from the rest is that it uses a full ATX design. It comes with 1 PCIe x16 slot and 1 PCIe x 4 endless slot. Endless slot means that the the PCIe x4 slot can be used with any full length PCIe card but runs at 4x speed. On board is also 3 x PCIex1 slots. The board also uses Realtek ALC889A codec and TV-out connector. At the back of the board it has connectors for HDMI, S/PDIF, D-SUB, 1394a, GbE LAN and 8 ch audio ports.

The board supports ATI AVIVO for sharper and lower CPU utilisation when playing back videos.With ATi surroudview function, the board can be connected to 2 displays using the onboard D-SUB+ HDMI port. 4 more displays can be connected using two PCIe graphics card.

More photos at http://www.ocworkbench.com/gigabyte

[trodas]

Very nice mobo, I like the clean design. The Vcore design is flawless to look at

There is only two regrets about it - the missing cap for Vcore output and only 3 phase Vcore? Come on... That is like for Athlon XP boards

AM2 cpu's are power-hungry, especially overclocked... 3 phase is too few, IMHO.

[gripen]

The actual review is up(not on the main page though), as I forgot my userid & password for posting news on the main page.
Any moderators around can help post this on the main page(as ocworkbench aka bluetooth is currently away now)?

http://my.ocworkbench.com/2007/gigab...A69G-S3/g1.htm

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Anyone using this board right now?