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Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AMD 785G Chipset Motherboard Review
Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AMD 785G Chipset Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
AMD's excellent upgrade paths mean the Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H motherboard will support AMD Athlon II, Phenom II processors in the socket AM3 flavours. The GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is equipped with four DDR3 memory slots that can accommodate up to 16GB of DDR3.
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Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Motherboard Highlights


From left to right: (1) PCI Express x1 slot, (1) PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, and (2) PCI slots. Along the edge of the board are COM and 1394a firewire headers.


The Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H has five SATA 3Gb/s ports which can be run in RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and JBOD modes. This corner of the motherboard houses the front panel header,the three USB headers, and a system fan header. Above this is the IDE connector... all of these connectors in such a tight space makes good cabling a must when using the GA-MA785GMT-UD2H.


The Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H supports up to 16GB of DDR3-1066/1333/1666(OC) memory in four DIMMs, or 4GB for 32-bit operating systems. Memory can be overclocked to 1666MHz if it will tolerate it.


The Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is a socket AM3 platform, so it maintains support for Phenom II and Athlon II processors.


The Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H's passive cooler can become quite hot to the touch after extended IGP use (typcially in 3D applications). Even with active CPU cooling, it's recommended to have little airflow passing by the AMD 785G chipset heatsink.

The AMD 785G chipset that powers the Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H is a brand new design from one of the biggest microprocessor manufacturers. Let's take a close look at what's going on inside it...

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H AMD 785G Chipset Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  — Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H Motherboard Highlights
 Pg 3.  Integrated HD Decoding - AMD 785G chipset
 Pg 4.  Testing ATI Stream - HD Content Playback CPU Utilization
 Pg 5.  Overclocking the Bus and IGP, BIOS Screenshots
 Pg 6.  Power Draw Tests, Test System Specs
 Pg 7.  Motherboard Benchmarks: Sysmark 2007, Sandra 2009
 Pg 8.  Motherboard Benchmarks: PCMark Vantage
 Pg 9.  Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: 3DMark06
 Pg 10.  Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: 3DMark Vantage, FEAR
 Pg 11.  DX10 Motherboard IGP Benchmarks: Call of Juarez, Crysis
 Pg 12.  AMD 785G - Great HD Decoding on the Cheap

 
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