GB GA-MA770-UD3 AMii+/AMiii CPU board

[Anton Henry]

In the last some months, AMD has been floating on a sea of goodwill and convinced consumer reception towards its products. It is not difficult to see why either. In these frugal times, the company's most costly processor arrives, and they have freed of bevy of superb extending rate.

There can be no refusing that the low-end and conventional products are the driving force back AMD's growing popularity. With this in mind, we bring you now a CPU board for the masses that can found for lower than but which characteristics a specifications list that will fulfill only about anyone. The product in query is the GB GA-MA770-UDiii.

Although this is technically a Socket AM2/AM2+ CPU board, due to its support for the HyperTransport 3.0 system interface and the bits of magic that are BIOS informes, it completely supports entire of the new multi-core AMD AMiii processors. It is too a DDR2 CPU board, which means that you can re-utilize your existing memory example and further delay the destiny transition to DDRiii.



This example is founded on the AMD 770 northbridge/SB700 southbridge chipset combo. This chipset chiefly dissents from the higher-end 780G, 790GX, and 790FX chipsets through its deficiency of official CrossFire support. The 770 was planned for individual graphics card forms, which basically represents the huge majority of entire home constructed systems.

With this in mind, the MA770-UD3 arrives with just one PCI-E x16 2.0 port, but creates up for it with its 4 PCI-E x1 ports, 2 PCI ports, 6 SATA II ports, 8 USB 2.0 ports, one Gigabit LAN port, two FireWire ports and high-quality VIII-channel HD sound codec. Unnecessary to say it is rather well-skilled for a CPU board, but how does it function?

How's the layout? How's the BIOS? Can it manage serious overclocking? These are the doubts that we will seek to results, and more.While the actual Phenom processors were established, AMD too declared their fresh seventh generation chipsets. This fresh chipset family was constituted of the AMD 790FX, AMD 790X and AMD 770.

These new chipsets contributed forth complete compatibility with the fresh Socket AM2+ through support for the HyperTransport 3.0 bus. They too (at last) officially supported DDR2-1066 and permitted independent powering of the storage controller and processor cores.