Gigabyte's MA785PMT-UD2H is well-designed with the components spaced out and labelled well, and this makes the motherboard installation easy, That said, this is also the only board to have color coded front panel headers thereby eliminating the need to refer to the motherboard manual.

The board misses out on a perfect ten in the design front since we found the space between the DIMM slots slightly less when compared to the ASUS M4A785TD-V EVa. To keep the overall board temperature at a minimum, Gigabyte doubles the amount of copper over the entire PCB to provide a more effective thermal cooling solution. The board is powered by ATl's new Radeon HD4200 chipset and comes integrated with 128 MB of DDR3- 1333 Sideport memory to accelerate 3D-peformance.

Complementing the HD4200 is the new SB710 Southbridge that supports 12 USB ports, 5 SATA ports, 1 IDE port and HD audio. Towards the rear you will find 1 eSATA/Firewire port, Gigabit Ethernet, SPDIF as well as 7.1 channel audio, 1 DVI/D-sub port and an HDMI port. With the SurroundView enabled, you can connect two monitors simultaneously via the D-Sub and DVI port, with a max of four when a graphics card is included. It also includes Gigabyte's DualBIOS technology that automatically recovers BIOS data from the backup BIOS when the main crashes, In the performance test the MA785PMT-UD2H gave mixed results. The board topped PCMark Vantage in the memory test and returned an overall score of 9180 but didn't quite deliver as expected in the Gaming and Productivity tests included within PCMark Vantage, Despite these hang-ups the board will still make a good HTPC.