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Asus launches Geforce 8300 motherboard

by on28 March 2008

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ATX board with HDMI

Asus has just released its first Geforce 8300 motherboard, the M3N-H/HDMI, and as far as we know this is the first Geforce 8300 motherboard to land. This is the bigger brother to the Geforce 8200 and should offer superior 3D performance, but from what we've been told, it also runs a fair bit hotter.

Although, saying that, Asus is using a rather large passive cooler and there are no heatpipes in sight. The rear I/O of the board consists of a PS/2 port for the keyboard, six USB 2.0 ports, a HDMI connector, a Gigabit Ethernet port, a FireWire port and 7.1-channel analog audio jacks with a separate coaxial S/PDIF out.

The board also has a single x16 PCIe slot, two x1 PCIe slots and three PCI slots. Furthermore, it has headers for another six USB 2.0 ports and one additional FireWire port, six SATA connectors and, oddly enough, a connector on the middle of the board for a cable which is connected to a rear bracket with a D-sub connector on it.

Asus also supplies a HDMI to DVI adapter in the box, but if you intent to take advantage of Hybrid SLI, we'd suggest you get an HDMI to DVI cable or a monitor with HDMI connectivity, as these dongles are very clumsy and will most likely cause damage to the HDMI connector in the long run.

This board also feautres Express Gate Lite, which we'll cover in more detail in another news post, and it's using all solid capacitors.

You can find the product page here

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Last modified on 30 March 2008
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