Lastly let's wrap things up with power consumption and a look at the Southbridge performance.

Here we see some excellent numbers from the 780G 4850e2 combination again which should bode well for those looking for a good home theater PC.

Here we see the 780G come out ahead of Nvidia's 630a in regards to gigabit performance of the Ethernet port. The 690G lags far behind due to it being 10/100.

With a raptor we saw very similar performance in read tests across all chipsets.

At last ATI seemed to have fixed their problem with USB performance as the 780G comes out on top.

Before we move onto the conclusion there are a few things we'd like to go over. You might notice we don't have a comparison to Intel's integrated graphics and that is because we ran into issues with our test system/out of time. But we can say without any doubt that the 780G's integrated graphics blows it out of the water, trust us on this. Intel has a long way to go integrated graphics and who knows when they might start to take it seriously. The real competition is Nvidia and they as of yet have not released details on their next-gen integrated video.

The other note is that while we attempted to test HD-DVD and Blu-Ray performance we ran into some problems with HDCP so we were not able to though we will definitely return to that soon if it can be resolved. The same goes for SurroundView as we had four monitors ready to go but couldn't get it quite going. We'll explore this later if a solution rears it's head.