Exclusive ASUS M2A-VP HDMI board review and FAQ

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Introduction

ASUS M2A-VM HDMI is the board that a lot of HTPC users will look forward to. Today, we got hold of more information of the upcoming board from ASUStek.

ASUS M2A-VM is a mATX baord with the integrated AMD 690G formerly ATi RS690 chipset paired with SB600 south bridge. The board supports Athlon64/X2/Sempron and it AMD Live! Ready. It supports aDual channel memory architecture with 4 x 240-pin DIMM, support max. 8GB DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and Non-ECC,un-buffered memory is supported.

For video, the integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics can share up 128MB of memory and supports Dual VGA using DVI-D with max. resolution 2560x1600 (@ 60Hz) and RGB with max. resolution 2048 x 1536 (@85Hz). An external PCIe based daughter board can be slotted with slots for HDMI interface with HDCP.

The board also supports ALC883 High Definition Audio 6-channel CODEC and GbE, 10 USB ports, 4 SATA II with RAID 0,1,5,10. Other features include SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection) from 200MHz to 400MHz at 1MHz increment, Adjustable CPU Voltage at 0.0125V increment and ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/asus/m2a-vm-hdmi/g1.htm

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Exclusive ASUS M2A-VP HDMI board gallery at OCWorkbench Link
Posted on 02/05/2007 @ 03:52 PM


ASUS M2A-VP HDMI (AMD 690G / ATI RS690) mainboard preview. See it first at OCWorkbench. Don't miss out other AMD 690G introductions from EPoX, Jetway, Seven Rainbow.

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Anyone using it/

[oe800r]

i'm thinking about replacing the i90hd board with this one but i have one question from you my friend:

Does it do 1080p Blu-ray playback? the i90Hd doesn't, and no amount of driver updates is fixing it.

Also, i'm not sure if you have one available, but a sata blu-ray drive (pioneer's cheap drive bdc2202) compatibility. Does the board have good compatibility with sata disk drives? I feel like i've been burned on abit's i90hd in terms of support and I don't want to have it happen again.

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Are you referring to abit F-I90HD? what brand and what chipset does it use?

If it is ATI(AMD) chipset, it is the same for both Intel and AMD.
Furthermore, if you intend to use the on board graphics to decode 1080p, it might be stressing the system.

What CPU were you formelry using with the F-I90HD ?

Check this portion of my review of another RS600 board
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/asro...-FullHD/b9.htm

It shows playing back of a Blu ray movie.

[darcycoby]

Asus' M2A-VM brings HD video to everyone. This cost-effective board has an integrated Radeon X1250 GPU that will let you play HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs through the HDCP compliant DVI-D port. Hook up two monitors for expansive screen real estate, or add a second ATi video card and have SurroundView on four monitors.

Thanks for sharing..