Reviews - AMD 785G chipset. ASUS M4A785TD-V motherboard under the spotlight

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An updated 780G chipset with an attractive price, we examine the RS785G's credentials as a low-cost, fully-featured motherboard.

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Just to clarify a couple of things: from the look of that block diagram, this will Hybrid Crossfire with any 4000 series GPU up to a 4650? is that right? Also, does the IGP on this support 2 digital outputs at once? Again, the block diagram suggests otherwise (and it would be a first for AMD's IGPs, AFAIK)...

Any chance of some testing to see what kind of performance boosts Hybrid Crossfire can provide to the different GPUs? A 4650 isn't exactly a slouch at low resolutions anyway...

What was the maximum CPU speed the board was able to get to whilst overclocking?

USB performance is dreadful. AMD really need to sort this out for their next range of chipsets.

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Originally Posted by roadie

USB performance is dreadful. AMD really need to sort this out for their next range of chipsets.

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Perhaps what's more worrying is how badly the USB performance of SB710 is compared to SB700 / SB750. If you look back at the 780G review the SB700 stands up very well next to the G45. I'll be interested to see more 785G reviews to find out if this is a chipset issue or if it's just a problem with the ASUS implementation...

disappointing, the HD4200 should have been a genuine 4xxx series GPU sporting 80 shaders.

this does not bode well for the AMD Tigris mobile platform due next month.

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Originally Posted by scaryjim

Just to clarify a couple of things: from the look of that block diagram, this will Hybrid Crossfire with any 4000 series GPU up to a 4650? is that right? Also, does the IGP on this support 2 digital outputs at once? Again, the block diagram suggests otherwise (and it would be a first for AMD's IGPs, AFAIK)...

Any chance of some testing to see what kind of performance boosts Hybrid Crossfire can provide to the different GPUs? A 4650 isn't exactly a slouch at low resolutions anyway...

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That block diagram shows AMD-recommended pairings with the board. However, looking at like-for-like architectures, it is best paired up with Radeon HD 3450.

Yup, it support dual digital outputs.

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Originally Posted by Tarinder

Yup, it support dual digital outputs.

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Am I right that this is the first AMD integrated chipset to allow that? And if so, isn't it something of a significant feature?

I can understand comparing it to the 780G but then not reviewing it as the boards are near identical performance wise but why mention the Geforce enabled board then not review it (especially when the prices are so close, better efficiency on the nvidia board could easily make that fiver irrelevant).

Not that this means I think Toms Hardware is better, your forums are far better for one and the free shipping at Scan deal is great, but I had been with them for years (450+ posts). Anyways, they did compare an 8200 and 9300 board to your setup - with exactly the same cpus actually - do you hardware sites have conferences lol.

Link - http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...et,2381-7.html

Now I have to wait for an mATX version.

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Originally Posted by DeludedGuy

Now I have to wait for an mATX version.

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But apparently not for long (and, confirming Tarinder's predictions, ASUS have gone for AM2+ / DDR2 for their lower-cost 785G motherboard...)