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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 3 years
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 3 years
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Better than Asus M4A78-EM
- Pros: I have built hundreds of custom PC's that use Asus motherboards. I went out on a limb and tried Gigabyte again. I was pleasantly surprised but the quality and additional features over the Asus counter part: M4A78-EM.
I more easily installed RAID 1 (mirror) since the Asus caused a blue screen on an XP install twice, where the Gigabyte did not. However you do need a USB/IDE floppy drive and the floppy 1.44 disabled in the BIOS. The Asus only supports USB floppys, not ribbon cabled. In addition to the same specs as the Asus, it has IEEE 1394a (firewire) on back and on board. It also has kept the mouse PS/2 port where Asus nixed it.
- Cons: I wish it has 2 or 3 SATA cables, since everyone at least needs a ODD (DVD burner) and HDD where SATA is now more commonly used than IDE in my opinion.
- Other Thoughts: Other than the additional SATA cables, I would like to see 4 pins supporting the northbridge heatsink (Gigabyte logo on it) instead of the diagonal two. There is not enough support for the heatsink, for users who use it to help fit the motherboard into their case.
Great board, lots of ports!
- Pros: 4 DIMM slots, lots of expansion ports, onboard video & HDMI. Dual-boot BIOS with lots of opportunity to O.C. Worked right out of the box!
- Cons: Onboard video is the limiting factor -- Win7 gives it only a 4.1. Still, graphics cards are cheap, so no biggie.
- Other Thoughts: I haven't had this long enough to really tweak it yet -- haven't tried to O.C., haven't hooked up the HDMI. Paired it with an Athlon 64 X2 5200 Brisbane (combo) & 4GB of A-DATA DDR2 800 RAM. Really good board for the price, and like I said -- it worked out of the box!
Great Board!!! Newegg Rocks!!
- Pros: I put the GA-MA78GPM-UD2H in a new build and used a hard drive from an old computer that had Windows 7 RC 64bit installed on it. (GA-MA78GPM-UD2H had the F1 bios) I installed a Phenom 4x 9950, with 4gbs ram turned the system on and it booted into Win7 without one issue! Downloaded the F4 bios and it is still running like a charm!
- Cons: Could use an extra cooling fan header.
- Other Thoughts: I've bought more expensive boards (ASUS, MSI) that didn't have as many features. Gigabyte, keep making a QUALITY board and I'll keep buying them!!
| Model |
| Brand |
GIGABYTE |
| Model |
GA-MA78GPM-UD2H |
| Supported CPU |
| CPU Socket Type |
AM3/AM2+/AM2 |
| CPU Type |
Phenom FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2 |
| FSB |
2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s) |
| Chipsets |
| North Bridge |
AMD 780G |
| South Bridge |
AMD SB700 |
| Memory |
| Number of Memory Slots |
4×240pin |
| Memory Standard |
DDR2 1200 / 1066 / 800
(Whether 1200 MHz memory speed is supported depends on the CPU being used) |
| Maximum Memory Supported |
16GB |
| Channel Supported |
Dual Channel |
| Expansion Slots |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
1 |
| PCI Express x1 |
1 |
| PCI Slots |
2 |
| Storage Devices |
| PATA |
1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max |
| SATA 3Gb/s |
5 |
| SATA RAID |
0/1/10/JBOD |
| Onboard Video |
| Onboard Video Chipset |
ATI Radeon HD 3200 |
| Onboard Audio |
| Audio Chipset |
Realtek ALC889A |
| Audio Channels |
8 Channels |
| Onboard LAN |
| LAN Chipset |
Realtek 8111C |
| Max LAN Speed |
10/100/1000Mbps |
| Rear Panel Ports |
| PS/2 |
2 |
| Video Ports |
D-Sub + DVI |
| HDMI |
1 x HDMI |
| USB 1.1/2.0 |
4 x USB 2.0 |
| IEEE 1394 |
1 x IEEE 1394a |
| eSATA |
1 x eSATA 3Gb/s |
| S/PDIF Out |
1 x Optical |
| Audio Ports |
6 Ports |
| Onboard USB |
| Onboard USB |
8 x USB 2.0 |
| Onboard 1394 |
| Onboard 1394 |
1x 1394a |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
Micro ATX |
| Dimensions |
9.6" x 9.6" |
| Power Pin |
24 Pin |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
3 years limited |
| Labor |
3 years limited |
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Reviewed By: Kydreth on 7/14/2009
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
