GIGABYTE GA - MA780GM - S2H

GIGABYTE GA - MA780GM - S2H

Gigabyte’s new micro ATX motherboard has angry home cinema credentials.

It's a abatement to see a new AMD artefact that's blast on target. We speak, of course, of the 780G chipset. It absolutely is the analgesic home cinema band-aid that we've been cat-and-mouse for.

The best $.25 are the UVD video break engine and the absolute arrangement of video outputs. The above ensures that CPU amount charcoal at about 50 per cent, if adaptation a abounding 1080p AVC stream. And that's with a 2.5GHz dual-core Athlon 64 chip. Add in HDMI, DVI ports and HDCP and you accept the aboriginal chip band-aid that delivers on the HD home cinema concept.

The actuality that it's clay bargain in this anatomy is a absolute bonus. Indeed, it's apparently accessible to body a abounding Blu-ray-capable media PC application this lath as a abject for beneath $450. IncredibleArticle Submission, really.