Hands-on: GIGABYTE GA MA78GM S2H 780G Motherboard

This is the GIGABYTE GA MA78GM S2H 780G motherboard, and the performance is on par with 780G boards, but its ability to overclock makes it a much better option for a HTPC with some kick. HDMI, eSATA and FireWire make this the ultimate HTPC board.

Tweak Town have given this motherboard a full hands-on review over 13 pages, and in their final thoughts they said, “Overall, the 780G chipset is extremely impressive; that much is certain. However, it’s usually put into cut-down boards using the Micro-ATX format. While this makes for a great HTPC, some of the potential of the 780G chipset is left unused.

GIGABYTE has done a fantastic job with this board. While it’s aimed at the HTPC users and even the office environments, it still has a bit of kick in it in regards to overclocking.

While it’s not able to push the boundaries like that of Core 2, it’s still able to give the AMD platform a kick in the pants and we know that AMD is no where near as easy to overclock as Intel since there are more tweaks needed to get them to run in a stable fashion”.

Read the 13 page review.