Friday, March 7, 2008

AMD's come back....finally

After giving us disappointing solution for the recent years, finally AMD show its teeth again :). I'm so glad as I used to be AMD fans and always argued with my friend about which is better, AMD or Intel, in the past. But not like in the past, when AMD kicked Intel ass with Athlon XP processor, now AMD stab Intel in the back with motherboard chipset, AMD 780G.

So what're the strength factors from this integrated graphic chipset? It's the first and only DirectX-10 capable motherboard chipset! AMD has been proven to be very serious in maintaining low budget pc market by releasing this chipset since AMD 780G is equipped with Radeon HD 3200. Wow...

This bring more graphical power to integrated graphic motherboard chipset as the current leader of intergrated graphic motherboard chipset is Nvidia 7050, which is still consider as weak in terms of graphical processing power. And even better, AMD 780G can be paired with discrete graphic card (hybrid mode) to add more graphical processing power, when needed. This means that for low budget gamers, they can choose this board and then in the future add additional graphic card without losing the functionality or power of integrated graphic card. Excellent upgrade scheme!

Below is the specification of this marvellous chipset :





























































Proven Radeon™ graphics powering DirectX® 10Powered by ATI Radeon™ Graphics, DirectX® 10 introduces neverbefore-seen detail-rich images and dynamic interactivity for playing the latest DirectX® 10 games
HyperTransport™ 3.0 technologyMore than doubles your CPU communications bandwidth to graphics as compared to
HyperTransport™ 1
PCI Express® Generation 2.0Double your graphics bandwidth over earlier PCI Express for improved performance
Backwards compatibilityEnsures flexibility to build platforms with previous generation CPUs as well as the latest

AMD Phenom™ processors
ATI Hybrid Graphics1Improve your system performance by enabling the ability for both discrete graphics and integrated graphics to render simultaneously
ATI Avivo™ HD2
ATI Avivo™ HD is the advanced image and video processing and display technology found in

ATI Radeon™ graphics that enables:

  • brilliant colors, sharp images and smooth playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVD content


  • performance that rivals high end HD DVD and Blu-ray™ players on difficult 1080i content

  • built-in HDMI and DVI with HDCP

ATI PowerPlay™Flexible power saving technologies that ensure optimal power efficiency to help reduce your electricity costs
Low Power DesignDesigned for power-efficient computing to help lower energy costs
AMD Cool’nQuiet™ 2.0Benefit from power saving features that help reduce power consumption at idle or during low usage
Enhanced Digital Display integrationSupports Display Port interface for the newest displays.
ATI SurroundView™SurroundView™ feature allows support for up to four independent monitors for systems equipped with an additional Radeon™ discrete graphics card
Next Generation SB700Support for up to 12 USB 2.0 connections and 6 SATA 2.0 devices, including eSATA devices
AMD OverDrive*Shift your system performance into next gear. Enables control of the AMD 7-Series Chipsets to easily configure system settings in Microsoft® Windows®
AMD RAIDXpert™Easily configure your RAID setup from remote locations to personalize your media for extra performance or enhanced reliability

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