Jetway Hummer HA08 LF motherboard review

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Unboxing Jetway Hummer HA08-LF motherboard (2)

 

Jeyway Hummer HA08 review

When we rotate the board we can see the new AM3 socket. Mind you that AM2+ motherboards can support AM3 processors as well. Yet Socket AM3 motherboards can not support Socket AM2+ processors. Keep that in mind.  This socket design and power circuitry can support processors with up to a 160 Watt TDP, so there will be no issues with even the most high-end processors.

Jeyway Hummer HA08 review

The board supports four unbuffered non-ECC DDR3 SDRAM DIMM sockets and up to 8 GB of memory can be installed on the board. For AM3 processors, DDR3-800/1066/1333 is supported.

The lack of color coding for dual-channel I find a little bothersome. I insert two memory modules in the upper slow and through benchmarking verified they where active in dual-channel mode.

Jeyway Hummer HA08 review

Under the funky heatsink the SB750 (Southbridge) chip is located. It actually can support 12 USB connectors compliant with USB 2.0 from an embedded USB controller. The SB750 also supports a P-ATA IDE for one IDE port (up to 2 IDE devices) with UDMA-33, ATA-66/100/133 support from an embedded IDE controller.
The board has seven S-ATA II ports with up to 300MB/s from the chipset with RAID 0,1,0+1,5 support. Though it's fake-raid (CPU based). It also has one eSATA port. Here a design flaw ... look at the SATA connectors and the position of the blue PCIe slot. Also check out the reset and power on/off micro switches. Figured the issue out already ?

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