A lot of things went on the wrong side for AMD lately. After unsuccessful launch of Opteron processors and overhyped R600 GPU, AMD has managed to launch quite successful RV670-based graphics cards and a few interesting Phenom processors with a good price-performance ratio. During that period, the only great product that AMD has actually released on time was a 680G chipset with integrated graphics, good pricing and decent performance.
Naturally, AMD has decided to build on good sales of a 680G chipsets and release a new one, called 780G. New chipset was main topic for AMD during CeBIT and all AMD major partners had their boards ready. One of them was ECS, AMD’s long-time partner, best known for their low-cost boards and OEM business.
Features:
- ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology To provide better gaming performance than a single graphics card, the innovative design of ATIª Hybrid Graphics Technology is capable to bring additional performance increase up to 1.75X by enabling the power of both integrated graphics core and the add-on graphics card simultaneously.
- Dual Channel DDR2 800 Doubles the bandwidth of your system memory up to 12.8GB/s and pumps up the system performance.
- 8 Channel High Definition Audio - HDMI The interface supports existing high-definition video formats(720p, 1080i, and even 1080p), plus multi-channel digital audio on a single cable. Combination with HDCP, provides a secure audio/video interface that meets the security requirements of content providers and systems operators.
- Overclocking Maximizes your system performance by selecting from these overclocking options (1) Flexible CPU/DDR core voltage adjustments (2) Adjustable FSB/DDR ratio
- PCI EXPRESS 2.0 The exceptionally increased interconnect bit rate from 2.5GT/s up to 5.0GT/s would effectively eliminates the bottle neck of the system performance and brings the most terrific computing experience from the present to the future.
- HT 3.0 The highly scalable Hyper Transport 3.0 is capable to provide incredible bandwidth of the system bus up to 20.8GB/s which would dramatically elevate the efficiency of computing performance.
- HDCP A specification developed by Intel Corporation to protect digital entertainment content across the DVI/HDMI interface. HDCP encrypts transmission of digital content between HDCP-compliant devices that it allows users to enjoy HD content through HDCP-compliant playback software.
Packaging:
When you take a look onto ECS A780GN-A box, if you don’t know what’s in already, you could be easily mislead and think that inside the box is actually a graphics card. The 780GN-A front-side box design is inspired by dragon-style and it is definitely not something we usually see on the packaging for motherboards.
After opening of the box, we found manuals and instructions for the motherboard, 2x SATA cables, 1x IDE cable, I/O shield, CD with drivers and the new ECS Black series sticker.
