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Posted at 8:07 AM on Friday 09/18/09 by
Ben
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Newegg has the has the ECS A780GM-M3 AM2+/AM3 AMD 780G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with Free ECS gift - Flyer Insert for $60 - $18 rebate [Exp 9/30] = $42 with free shipping.
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    carguydc - Posted 8:53 am PDT 09/18/09 (979 Posts)  Report Spam

    Reviews are somewhat sketchy on this one. Failures, no floppy drive connection, power supply compatibility. I am in the market but I'll pass on this one.

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    dave_c - Posted 9:38 pm PDT 09/18/09 (16750 Posts)  Report Spam

    It's Newegg, if it doesn't work out just RMA and you're out $5 to return ship it. It isn't a very well endowed board though, minimal CPU VRM so it wouldn't be good to o'c or use CPUs rated for more than 65W even if they claim something a bit higher like 95W.

    Some of the reviewers are pathetic though, whining ECS doesn't have a driver when they should've gotten those from ATI/AMD as they always should with a mobo. Drivers do work in baconut reviewer forgot or didn't know to make a floppy which in this case means USB flash drive in floppy emulation mode to be assigned a drive letter A:.

    Didn't work with Apevia PSU, wrote one reviewer. The genius doesn't know to use a decent PSU then comments on the crappy motherboard. LOL.

    It is a junky board but if you only need a basic office box it'll do that ok, though personally even for office boxes I'd much sooner suggest spending a bit more on something like an Asus M3N78-VM, which is all around better except for a couple frames a second difference on 3D games that neither are fast enough to play well. Then again it's the lower clocked IGP version, with headroom to clock higher in the bios.

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