Published: Monday 1st June, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: J&W Technology (All J&W Technology content)
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email to a friendWalking around the halls at COMPUTEX '09, you could easily be fooled into believing that it's an Intel P55 world - as far as motherboards are concerned, at least.
However, that's anything but the case, as AMD's 785G chipset is making a strong showing for the competition. The chipset isn't due at retail until the third quarter of 2009, but making our way past J&W's stand revealed an early 785G board sitting out on display.
Supporting socket AM3, the 785G + SB750 chipset utilises the best of AMD's Phenom II and ATI's Radeon HD 4200 IGP. The latter is believed to be clocked at 500MHz, and as a Radeon HD 4000-series product, it brings with it support for DirectX 10.1 and UVD 2 - all tucked away neatly on the northbridge.
J&W's board - dubbed the JW-785GXM-EXTREME - provides HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs, as well as Gigabit Ethernet, eSATA, and FireWire connectivity. Looks a useful solution, but what we'd really be interested in seeing is AMD's 785G chipset shoehorned into a mini-ITX form factor. In the value space, such a board coupled with a Phenom II processor could be mighty useful.
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Or it really is being bulied by the others :)Quote
I would also like to think that if a motherboard sports "eSATA", it doesn't just bundle a SATA>eSATA cable.....but that's just me :PQuote
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