Even though we've looked at a lot of ASRock motherboards there's still one that we have yet to look at, ASRock's A780FullHD which is basically a vanilla 780G motherboard. That said the board seems to be no slouch but doesn't have any sideport memory. Let's see how it performs.

The board resembles other ASRock motherboards and other 780G micro-ATX boards. There's not much one say about the layout, it definitely works and nothing should get in the way with the only major cooling on the Southbridge and even then just a small heatsink. Even this though is more than enough for the SB700 which runs cool.

Onboard the card features two PCI slots, one PCI-Express slot, one 16X PCI-Express slot, 4 DDR2 1066 RAM slots, six SATA ports. External expansion slots include a VGA adapter, DVI adapter, USB ports, Gigabit LAN, and 5.1 audio. No E-SATA or Firewire here or Digital Audio out but pretty decent.

I/O ports on the back consist of a PS2 mouse and keyboard port, VGA-Output, DVI-Output (ASRock also includes a handy DVI-to-HDMI adapter), six USB 2.0 ports, an E-SATA port, Firewire, 1 Gigabit Ethernet jack, and analog HD audio output. Isn't it great that motherboard companies finally started putting 6 USB 2.0 ports on the back? Long overdue and now even on boards under $100.

Accesories are a little trim with a few SATA cables, IDE cable and floppy, man, I/O shield, and SATA to molex power adapter. This is one of the smaller bundles we've seen of the new ASRock board but this seems to be a minimum 780G board.

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