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780G motherboard available now

Looks like a pretty full featured board. Is that an eSATA port below the firewire port?

I've been reading up on the Intel e2xxx and e4xxx CPU's for an upcoming HTPC build. What's the AMD CPU to get (~$100) that would work well with this board? Been outta the AMD loop for a little while.
 
yes, I think it's an eSATA port.
An Athlon 5000+ is less than $100, I suggest 4000+ which only costs $60, since the 780G board supports hardware decoding, a cheapest dual core cpu is good enough. You should be able to overclock it to 2.6Ghz-2.8Ghz easily.

For intel platform, E2160/MCP7A will be good, but MCP7A is not available now, it doesn't support VC1 decoding. G45 is coming soon, but it will be more expensive, plus the performance is not as good as MCP7A.

780G is about 15% faster than MCP78 from 3dmark06.
 
Originally posted by: amheck
Looks like a pretty full featured board. Is that an eSATA port below the firewire port?

I've been reading up on the Intel e2xxx and e4xxx CPU's for an upcoming HTPC build. What's the AMD CPU to get (~$100) that would work well with this board? Been outta the AMD loop for a little while.
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Athlon 64 X2 5400+ 2.8GHz AM2 65W for $95 - probably hit 3,2-3.3GHz on stock volts ...
 
Thanks for the heads up. It's interesting that the 780G can get away with such a small heat sink (a passive one no less) for the NB/GPU. Looking forward to user reviews.
 
Regarding the CPU of choice, I found this:

This Link, which compares all CPU's including e8200's. Although its mainly encoding tests, you can see that AMD still holds some ground, specially in the price-performance department!

So... it should do a sweet rig with the 780g.

Cheers.
 
The Gigabyte 780g link is up. I'm trying to download the manual - as is half the US from the download speed 🙂

I think that's the onboard hdmi port - not an eSATA.

edit: oops! ""1 x eSATA 3Gb/s port on the back panel ""

firewire and hdmi ports ...

edit again:

Playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray Discs:
In order to get better playback quality, when playing the HD DVD or Blu-ray discs, refer to the
recommended system requirements (or better) below.
? CPU: AMD AthlonTM 64 X2 Dual-Core processor (4200+ or above)
? Memory: Two 1 GB DDR2 800 memory modules with dual channel mode enabled
? BIOS Setup: At least 256 MB of UMA Frame Buffer Size (refer to Chapter 2, "BIOS Setup,"
"Advanced BIOS Features," for more information)
? Playback software: CyberLink PowerDVD 7.3 (Note: Please ensure Hardware Acceleration is
enabled )
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Well thats nice and alot of good that does me now since i sold my 5000+ BE...
Maybe for my future HTPC I will get one of the newer amd quads k10.5 not the 3 crap phenoms that are out as of right now.
It would be cool if they would release an FX-Quad with say atleast 8MB cach..
Anyways thats looks like a sweet board and for less then a bill I may have to get it!!
 
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