Back in March, we had a chance to check out the first engineering sample of the AMD 780G chipset and you can read about it here. We were very pleased with this integrated chipset so we decided to check out some additional boards.

Due to the fact that not all boards are capable to handle a Phenom X4 9850, we decided to run all the tests with our old Phenom 9600 Black Edition. We did not overclock the CPU, but we did overclock the graphics-core if possible. Of course, we tested all boards with the same configuration. We also tested with the latest energy-efficient Athlon X2 series, and we used a 4850e. For comparability reasons we stuck to 800MHz DDR2 speeds.

Testbed:

Motherboards:
as described

CPU:
AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition (provided by Mindfactory)

AMD Athlon X2 4850e (provided by AMD)

CPU-Cooler:
Scythe Andy Samurai Master (provided by Scythe-Europe)

Memory:
Kingston 2GB Kit PC2-9600U KHX9600D2K2/2G (provided by Kingston)
CL5-5-5-15 CR2T @400MHz 1.85V

Graphics Card:
onboard

Power supply:
Seasonic S12-II 330W

Hard disk:
Samsung SP1614C

DVD-Drive:

Samsung SH-S203D