Asus M4A785TD-V EVO
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Asus' M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard
The first 785G-based motherboard to hit the Benchmarking Sweatshop was Asus' M4A785TD-V EVO. And it doesn't look anything like an integrated graphics motherboard. For starters, the EVO is a full-size ATX model with a larger footprint than the Micro ATX designs generally associated with integrated graphics. Asus has put the extra board real estate to good use, dropping in a couple of physical PCI Express x16 slots to support traditional two-way CrossFire configs. The top (blue) slot gets a full 16 lanes of bandwidth, while the bottom (white) slot has to make do with just four. Keep in mind that these are PCIe 2.0 lanes, though; a gen-two x4 link offers just as much bandwidth as a gen-one x8 link. With careful color-coordination, the EVO is certainly more stylish than most low-end mobos. The blue slots and ports nicely play off the brown PCB, although I can't help but wish Asus had gone with a different base color. You can call the shade auburn, mocha, or chocolate, but it still looks like poo brown to me. Or worse, Zune brown. Under the EVO's brown veneer lurks a circuit board layered with two ounces of copper to reduce impedance and aid heat dissipation. Fancy solid-state capacitors are used throughout, as well.
AMD 785G Chipset Launch: ASUS and Gigabyte
For the AMD 785G chipset launch, ASUS is ready with three different implementations; two mATX boards and one ATX. There's the M4A785D-M PRO and the M4A785TD-M EVO; the two mATX boards. The ATX board is the M4A785TD-V EVO and we have it in the lab today. The first thing you'll notice about the ASUS 785G boards are the long and cryptic model names. In this case 'PRO' doesn't seem to mean "better" since the M4A785D-M PRO is the only one of the three that doesn't have SidePort memory while the two EVOs both pack 128MB of DDR3-1333. SidePort memory is integrated RAM dedicated to the IGP and its presence noticeably boosts performance over using shared memory alone. The M4A785TD-V EVO supports 512MB of memory sharing along with the SidePort memory for a possible maximum of 640MB of video memory. However, remember that the "shared" part of shared memory means that 512MB will be coming out of your available system memory so plenty of RAM is recommended.
Prices
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Asus M4a785td-v Evo Socket Am3/ Amd 785g/ Ddr3/ Hybrid | In stock | $94.99 | |
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Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 7850G Socket AM3 Motherboard - ATX, PCIe, HDMI, Tur... | In stock | $99.99 | |
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Asus M4A785TD-V Motherboard | unknown | $99.99 | |
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Asus M4A785TD-V Motherboard | unknown | $100.24 | |
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ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard | unknown | $100.24 | |
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AMD 785G/SB710 AM3 MAX-16GB DDR3 ATX DIRECTX 10.1 SUP PCIE16 | In stock | $104.7 | |
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ASUS M4A785TD V EVO Desktop Motherboard : AMD Chipset | In stock | $105 | |
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ASUS AM3 SOCKET SUPPORT AMD PHENOM II/ ATHLON II/ SEMPRON 100 SERIES CPU;AM... | In stock | $105.79 | |
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ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Motherboard - M4A785TD-V EVO | In stock | $105.99 | |
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Asus Asus M4A785TD Motherboard | In stock | $108.94 | |
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Asus M4A785TD Motherboard | In stock | $108.94 | |
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Asus M4A785TD Motherboard | In stock | $108.94 | |
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Asus US M4A785TD-V EVO M4A785TD Motherboard | In stock | $135.19 |
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