OC3D Review: Nvidia 780a Preview

[w3bbo]

Find out what makes Nvidia's latest AMD chipset tick with a preview of the 780a...

Review HERE

 

[FarFarAway]

Great little (big) preview mate

Some of the chipsets with onboard GPU's out now are really worth looking at when you consider HTPC's

Full HD output ftw tbh

 

[w3bbo]

Cheers m8. Was a bit of a challenge but Jim steered me in the right direction.

I was socked about the onboard VGA actually being able to run games let alone be playable.

 

[Luigi]

Ooh webbo didnt know you did reviews now.. nice one

Looks like a nice board.

 

[w3bbo]

Yeah and I'm enjoying it more than I thought I would tbh. Especially when you get some solid backup from the more experienced reviewers here at OC3D.

Tis a very nice board, I just wish we could have exploited it more....but that comes later.

 

[Luigi]

Well congrats mate, you did very well i shall give it a full read when i return home

 

[ionicle]

nice

good to see asus havent abandoned AMD, and neither has Nvidia, back in the day they made some good boards, like mine, the A8N sli-premium

Asus board

Nforce 4 chipset

AMD processor

tis the shizz

good to see we're building back upto that

amd processors were never really good overclockers anyway, you were lucky if you got 500MHz out of your athlon 64 series....

 

[w3bbo]

Opty 146 and DFI Ultra-D...../hums Hovis tune

I do hope AMD can get back inline with Intel as the support is evidently still there for enthusiasts with chipsets/motherboards like this.

 

[Luigi]

yeah, tis looking good

You going to be doing more reviews webbo?

 

[FarFarAway]

yeah, tis looking good

You going to be doing more reviews webbo?

Mate he's already done a few, pay attention :noobsign::nutkick::whack::banng::fish::haha:

 

[Luigi]

Lol, i havent been reading as many recently... nice

Did you get my pm kemp?

 

[cl0ck_ed]

nice

good to see asus havent abandoned AMD, and neither has Nvidia, back in the day they made some good boards, like mine, the A8N sli-premium

Haha, I had the A8N sli-deluxe, great board.

This new 780a chip looks packed with features, great (pre)review. The layout of the asus board looks spot on aswell.

 

[Azza]

Hes the thing about these boards.

1. The Price!

2. Current AMD processors.

Why pay £140+ for a motherboard that uses current AMD processors? When you could spend £140+ on an X48 board and get an Intel processor that is better than current AMDs. Who would buy a £140+ motherboard just for the onboard graphics and hybrid SLI when they would be combined with an AMD processor?

 

[FarFarAway]

OEM's getting nice prices but still wanting to sell PC's with decent specced GPU's?

 

[PP Mguire]

Asus board

Nforce 4 chipset

AMD processor

tis the shizz

Spot on, cept DFI Lanparty SLI-DR, X2, 3gig DDR500

Im glad there will be another reiview on this board though. To really put it through its paces you need to test the tri-SLI capability, Quad-SLI, and have a Phenom 9850X4 BE. Also testing hybrid SLI to see how well that works and to see if there really is a dip in performance with it enabled.

For a (not so) little preview i thought this was great. Keep up the good work! And sorry ima bit late. This is the board im looking at getting in the near future so i wanna see the OC3D seal of approval before i decide on heading to Intel. (Which is going to be exspensive for me, QX9650, DDR3, 790i, ect)