The GA-MA 78GM-S2H is GIGABYTE's next generation board is based on the new AMD 780G Chipset and support for the new AMD Phenom quad-core processors. It has supports for DDR2 DIMM. It supports ATI Hybrid CrossFireX with interface PCI-E 2.0 x16. The mother¬board has 6 SATA 3GB/s with Support RAID O. RAID 1, RAID 10 and JBOD function and Integrated HDMII DVI interface with HDCP. It has up to 12 USB 2.0 port.



Motherboard was tested with 600 Watts SMPS. 120 GB SATA 7200rpm HDD. AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core processor 2.01 GHz with 2 GB DDR2 533 MHz RAM with XP SP2 Operating System.

The score for BW was good with 36.5. While the Performance vs and The scores for 3D Mark. PC Mark and Pov-Ray benchmarks were 6454.9324 and 49152 respectively. Cinebench 10 scores were 1835 1 CPU and 6731 xCPU. Using NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT the scores obtained for the Gaming performance of UT3, Crysis and Company of Heroes were 45.56 frame relay. 33.19FPS and 137.0 FPS respectively. Overall performance is very good.