Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H Review
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Written by Chris Tom   
Thursday, 11 December 2008 11:48
iXBT has reviewed the Gigabyte MA790GP-DS4H 790GX based motherboard. It can be had here for $144.99.

This motherboard combines functionality of Gigabyte MA78GPM-DS2H and Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H based on AMD 780G. Besides, it now supports processors with TDP up to 140 W and enjoys advantages of the 790GX chipset: higher performance of the integrated graphics core, symmetric mode of graphics ports for CrossFire, Advanced Clock Calibration and RAID 5. However, unlike the above motherboards (exclusive AMD 780G models to some degree), 790GX-based motherboards from other manufacturers also offer high functionality and are rigged up to the reasonably maximum level. So users can afford to be choosy now. In particular, this motherboard offers one of the most powerful CPU voltage regulators (it's an economic model at the same time -- owing to field-effect transistors of the new generation) and an imposing cooling system, we've ever seen in motherboards of this class. But it has some drawbacks as well: relatively low characteristics of the integrated analog outputs and the lack of eSATA (which is available in Gigabyte MA78GPM-DS2H, by the way).