AMD 785G chipset review - ECS A785GM-M test

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A meet and greet with the ECS A785GM-M

 

A meet and greet with the ECS A785GM-M

On the next few pages we'll show you some photos. The images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon 450D 12 MegaPixel.

AMD 785G chipset overview

Alright, let's take a look at the product. Here we have the entire bundle. The product is in the sub-90 USD market, and in fact you can probably pick it up real cheap at 80 USD quite soon. Typically motherboard manufacturers therefore skimp a little on the little extras but it's quite okay. Next to the motherboard you'll receive the backplate, driver CD, 4x SATA cables and a Parallel ATA (IDE) cable.

AMD 785G chipset overview

Hey now, roughly 80 bucks and look at all the slots and connectivity... can you believe this is a budget motherboard with integrated Radeon series 4 graphics? Let's go and check all the features out.

AMD 785G chipset overview

So here we have the back panel connectivity. Immediately I'm impressed. We spot the lack of a PS2 mouse and keyboard connector, then one D-Sub (VGA), DVI and HDMI connector (great connectivity!). We see (and I love this) an optical TOSLINK sound output, a total of 6x USB 2.0 ports, 2x eSATA, firewire, a Gigabit Ethernet LAN connector and then the 8.1 channels of analog audio as well.

AMD 785G chipset overview

When we flip the board 90 degrees counter clockwise we look at socket AM3, and also see quality Japanese capacitors. The choke coils really could use an upgrade to Ferrite core chokes though.

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