GIGABYTE GA-M720-US3


With Ultra Durable 3-Classic
Gigabyte brings back their ranks AMD motherboards. This time GIGABYTE brings 720D NVIDIA nForce chipset for the motherboard GA-M720-US3 them. This motherboard supports up to AMD Phenom II.
Enough spare Hardview.net this motherboard layout for placement of some components of the motherboard will complicate installation. Like SATA slot placement near enough PCI-e x16. This caused difficulties when removing the SATA cable has a locking clip when a long-sized graphics card is installed. Then, a PCI-e x1 is located beside the high northbridge heatsinks. Installation of PCI card-sized e x1 slot length on this can be blocked by the heatsink.
Although this motherboard a little trouble with the layout, features offered, including abundant. One of the main features of this motherboard is the Ultra Durable 3-Classic. In this feature, Gigabyte adds as much as two ounces of copper. Gigabyte claims that the addition of copper makes the system temperature is lower, improving energy efficiency, and stability during overclock.
Hardview.net trying to test the performance of this motherboard with AMD Phenom X4 9950. Value achieved in testing this motherboard including SYSmark 2007 high with a value of 140. Meanwhile, the game test, including the performance of this motherboard good.
Conclusion
Motherboards with abundant features with affordable price.
Specifications
Product by: GIGABYTE
Info: www.gigabyte.com.tw
| Processor | | | AMD AM2+ |
| Chipset | | | NVIDIA nForce 720D |
| Multiplier | | | Auto |
| Form Factor | | | ATX |
| AGP/PCI/PCIe x16/PCIe x1 | | | 0/4/1/2 |
| USB/Firewire/Serial/Pararel/eSATA | | | 8/2/0/0/1 |
| PATA/SATA Port | | | 1/6 |
| DDR2 Slot | | | 4 |
| Equipment | | | Owner’s Manual, CD Driver, Multilingual Installation Guidebook, Warranty Card, Backpanel, 1x IDE Cable, 1x Floppy Cable, and 2x SATA cable |
| Benchmark | Point | |
| Sysmark 2007 | | | 140 |
| Left 4 Dead | | | 72,92 fps |
| Quake 4 | | | 197,4 fps |









