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ASUS M3N78-EM AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 8300 HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

Integrated GeForce 8300 w/ HDMI output and DX10

ASUS M3N78-EM Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail

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Total Reviews:	149

Excellent with Debian Lenny/MythTV

Reviewed By: mgb_74 on 10/9/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

Pros: All the features one would need for a MythTV box. Video and audio go out through HDMI to my Onkyo receiver. No complaints. It plays ISO DVD images beautifully. The audio sounds great through HDMI.

Cons: The PATA connector is a right-angle and in my enclosure is difficult to access. At boot, like most boards, it spends a lot of time in the BIOS.

Other Thoughts: After installing a base of Lenny w/Gnome and the latest/greatest Nvida driver, I built and installed MythTV from the lastest stable source. I had to mess with the audio to get both MP3/44.1KHz and AC3/48KHz working through HDMI. For AC3/48KHz through HDMI the device is 'ALSA:hw:03' and for MP3/FLAC/44.1KHz it's 'ALSA:plughw:03'. You can send it to the SPDI/F by changing the '03' to '01'. I'm still working on geting the HD-DVD and BD images to play but this has nothing to do with the hardware.

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ASUS M3N78-EM

Reviewed By: Lee on 10/6/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: It worked with Ubuntu 9.04 out of the box . Onboard video and sound worked right away .( Did manually select Nvidia drivers durning install ). Had no problems with lan . I flashed to newest bios right off . Linux has come a long upgrading and installing aps is much easier . Not quit one click but pretty close just have to add to repository list and then search for app .

Cons: Sound volume is pretty low , but it going to get amped anyway .

Other Thoughts: I am able to stream Hulu , Mlbtv (in Hd) , use pandora and other tv streams . Have not got blue Ray to work ( havent tried yet ) .Plays regular DVD's no problem. Not able to use Netflix instant play either . There are ways to get blue ray and net flix but not supported ways.

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Love Asus but...

Reviewed By: damianbaum on 9/30/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Great ASUS product, will run a AMD Phenom II X4 810 2.6GHz Socket AM3, solid performance except... (see cons)

Cons: Had an IRQ conflict on the on-board NIC, created a huge headache in Vista 64 trying to narrow down what was causing the BSOD.

Other Thoughts: Don't know who ultimately to blame for the resource conflict (Windows or ASUS) but you would expect built in devices to work "out of the box". This is my second ASUS motherboards in the last 3 years to have on-board NIC issues. But... can't say it'll stop me from buying ASUS motherboards.

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Model
Brand	ASUS
Model	M3N78-EM
Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type	AM2+/AM2
CPU Type	Phenom FX / Phenom / Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 X2
FSB	2600MHz Hyper Transport (5200 MT/s)
Chipsets
North Bridge	NVIDIA GeForce 8300
Memory
Number of Memory Slots	4×240pin
Memory Standard	DDR2 1066 * DDR2 1066 is supported by AM2+ CPU for one DIMM per channel only.
Maximum Memory Supported	8GB
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	0/1/0+1/5/JBOD
Onboard Video
Onboard Video Chipset	NVIDIA GeForce 8 series
Onboard Audio
Audio Chipset	Realtek ALC1200
Audio Channels	8 Channels
Onboard LAN
Max LAN Speed	10/100/1000Mbps
Rear Panel Ports
PS/2	1
Video Ports	D-Sub + DVI
HDMI	1 x HDMI
USB 1.1/2.0	6 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	3 x USB 2.0 connectors for 6 additional USB 2.0 ports
Onboard 1394
Onboard 1394	1x 1394a
Physical Spec
Form Factor	Micro ATX
Dimensions	9.6" x 9.6"
Power Pin	24 Pin

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