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MSI and ECS 785G tested Print E-mail
Written by Eliot Kucharik   
Tuesday, 20 October 2009 23:40
Article Index
MSI and ECS 785G tested
2 MSI 785GM-E65
3 Elitegroup A785GM-M
4 OC/Under-voltaging
5 Multimedia
6 3DMark, FarCry2
7 Power-Consumption
8 Conclusion
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Review: Upgraded 780G

This review is also available in German.


After some CPU tests, we finally have time to take a look at the 785G platform. Unfortunately some BIOS bugs and Chinese holidays prevented us to post this review earlier.

This is an upgraded 780G with DX10.1 support, which is not important at all, and with the UVD2 stream engine. This will allow the 785G to stream Blu-ray content with picture in picture functionality. We have two boards to check out, the MSI 785GM-E65 and the Elitegroup A785GM-M.

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Testbed:

Motherboard:
MSI 785GM-E65 (provided by MSI)
AMD 785G/SB710
Elitegroup A785GM-M (provided by Elitegroup)
AMD 785G/SB710
MSI P55-GD80 (provided by MSI)
Intel P55
MSI 790FX-GD70 (provided by MSI)
AMD 790FX/SB750
MSI DKA790GX (provided by MSI)
AMD 790GX/SB750
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P (provided by Gigabyte)
Intel P45/iCH10R
Intel DX58SO "Smackover" (provided by Intel)
Intel X58/iCH10R

CPU:
Intel Core i5 750  (provided by Intel)
Intel Core i5 870  (provided by Intel)
AMD Athlon II X4 620 (provided by AMD)
AMD Phenom 9650 (provided by AMD)
AMD Phenom II 810 (provided by AMD)
AMD Phenom II 905e (provided by AMD)
AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition (provided by AMD)
AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition (provided by AMD)
Intel Q9450 (provided by Intel)
Intel Q(X)9650  (provided by Intel)
Intel Core i7 920  (provided by Intel)
Intel Core i7 975XE  (provided by Intel)

CPU-Cooler:
Scythe Kabuto (provided by Scythe-Europe) for AMD and Intel E/Q
Thermalright Ultra 120 eXtreme 1366 (provided by Thermalright) for Intel 1366
Thermalright MUX-120 1156 (provided by Thermalright) for Intel 1156

Memory:
Kingston 2GB Kit PC2-9600U KHX1200D2K2/2G (provided by Kingston)
1066MHz CL5-5-5-15 CR2T at 1.90V for AMD DDR2
Qimonda 3GB Kit PC3-8500U (provided by Qimonda)
1066MHz CL7-7-7-20 CR1T at 1.55V for Intel i7
Kingston 3GB Kit PC3-10600U KHX1600D3K3/2GX (provided by Kingston)
1333MHz CL7-7-7-20 CR1T at 1.50V for AMD DDR3 and Intel P55
1440MHz CL7-7-7-20 CR1T at 1.50V for Intel P55
1600MHz CL8-8-8-23 CR1T at 1.60V for AMD DDR3 FSB overclocking
1644MHz CL9-8-8-23 CR1T at 1.60V for Intel P55
1800MHz CL9-8-8-23 CR1T at 1.65V for Intel P55

Graphics Card:
MSI R4850-2D1G-OC (provided by MSI)

Power supply:
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 500W (provided by PC Power & Cooling)

Hard disk:
Samsung F1 1000GB (provided by Ditech)

Case fans:
SilenX iXtrema Pro 14dB(A) (provided by PC-Cooling.at)
Scythe DFS122512LS

Case:
Cooler Master Stacker 831 Lite (provided by Cooler Master)

OS:
Since we are still not fans of Vista, all tests are performed with XP SP3. As 64-bit software is still not very common, we stick with the 32-bit version.




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