ASUS M3A78-EM Review

[lckdanny]

Today I introduced a motherboard from ASUS, model is M3A78-EM, using ATI 780G + SB700.

ASUS M3A78-EM Spec
MicroATX Form Factor
Support AM2+, AMD Athlon 64, Sempron, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon X2, Phenom X4, Phenom X3, support 140W CPU
Support dual-channel PC2-6400, PC2-5300, PC2-8500 DDR2 SDRAM
AMD 780G & AMD SB700
ATA100, SATA300 support RAID, eSATA
Integrated ATI Radeon HD 3200
Realtek High Definition Audio
Realtek Gigabit Ethernet
DVI, D-Sub, HDMI and Display port


ASUS M3A78-EM
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/08.jpg

I/O panel (PS2,USB,D-Sub,DVI, HDMI, Displayport, eSATA)
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/10.jpg

4+1 phases PWM, using Fujitsu solid capacitors
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/11.jpg

This board all using solid capacitors(Caps using NCC and Elite solid capacitors)
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/13.jpg

System test

Testing platform
AMD Opteron 1210 (9x200, 1800MHz, 1MB L2 Cache)
VSC288 CPU Cooler w/ y500 thermal compound
Supertalent 1G DDR2 800 x2
ASUS M3A78EM mobo
Integrated ATI HD3200 VGA w/256MB HyperMemory
Seagate 20GB 5400rpm IDE HDD
ASUS CDROM
15" LCD Monitor


Everest UE platform summary
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/19.jpg

CPU benchmark w/ default setting (CPUMark99, SuperPi 1.5 1M)
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/22.jpg

CINEBENCH R10 w/ default setting
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/24.jpg

CPU benchmark overclocking Opteron 1210 to 2700MHz (9x300, HT x3) w/ default CPU voltage
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/26.jpg

CINEBENCH R10, overclocking Opteron 1210 to 2700MHz (9x300, HT x3) w/ default CPU voltage
http://www.lckdanny.com/images/m3a78_em/27.jpg

:( The small North-Bridge heatsink and South-Bridge not enough to spread heat

More pics pls visit to my blog! ^_^
http://www.lckdanny.com/blog/index.php?mode=viewid&post_id=81

[gengis]

Thanks for the review

[felix_w]

Thank you lckdanny...

Is it possible to show some screenshots of the BIOS menu and options available ? Thanx

[ToTTenTranz]

I bought one for my cousin's system and it was a zero-problem install. With a 64bit Vista OS, runs flawlessly.

[lckdanny]

Thank you lckdanny...

Is it possible to show some screenshots of the BIOS menu and options available ? Thanx

Thanks felix, this review I didn't take BIOS snapshot! SORRY, but I will take BIOS otpions snapshot in next hardware review.

Thx all!