ASUS M3A78-EM Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

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A fantastic matx board, plenty of expansion slots and ports for it's size, very stable, easy to work with, no issues. Top quality from Asus as always. Look killer too.

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Very good mobo coming with full of feature. For 100$ this mobo offer so many things you cant go wrong with this mobo if you planned to look few movies, videos and even playing games. Im very surprised what Asus do with this mobo.

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great board with probably everything you need for a htpc setup. It plays 1080p smoothly =] I would imagine it would be an awesome gaming pc as well with hdmi and a pci-e slot for a video card

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This is a great board. I purchased this board for a friend after his Gigabyte AM2 board died immediately, and he's extremely happy with it. He wanted an affordable rig that could play some games on low settings, so he bought a HD3450. Much to our surprise the HD3450 and the onboard HD3200 are crossfire compatible even in XP, and it actually improved the gaming performance considerably! Great board, highly recommended!

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Great board for an HTPC. igp can support 1080p playback with no problem. havn't tried undervolting/underclocking cpu yet (for noise/power consumption/heat sake) but i'm sure it will have the option. If not, no biggie, just make sure your cpu is a low power version.

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Very good board, better price. Everything you need for an htpc is onboard aside from a tuner. This also will support the new line of am3 cpus.

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Has every kind of display output you can imagine, including Display port. Has E-sata, Firewire, and quite a few USB ports. The Box says it can support the 140w Phenom though not sure I would risk it. It does handle the latest AM2/AM2+ and with latest Bios flash AM3 cpus so your good for a few years socket wise. Onboard graphics are great for general use, and would excell at HTPC use. Though if you want to game get a proper Graphics card. Though older games I am sure would be fine using the onboard.

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One of the best matx mobos i have owned yet. Simple and effective, came with all the little screws and cables, etc. install was a breeze plus the onboard video is phenomenal. would highly recommend

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This board was easy to install, everything seems to be working fine. The only thing I didn't like was the Norton internet security (only a trial version) was on the same CD as the Motherboard drivers and utilities.

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Good Motherboard. Comes with a large selestion of connections on the back: HDMI, DVI, VGA, ESATA, Firewire, etc. After setting up a Raid 0, I found that partioning the harddrives pre-windows is not an option using Partion Magic Pro 8.05. I kept getting a bad MBR error 110. After much testing I found that using the above program in Windows was a much better solution.

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A great motherboard overall that is backed by Asus's warranty and supports the higher wattage AMD cpu. Build quality is excellent for a board in this class and the color scheme is well matched. There are many connectors and display itself has options for VGA, DVI and HDMI! Sound comes in both analogue and digital via optical or coax. However, the 780G chipset should be cheaper and note that overclocking is limited partly due to the options in BIOs.I would recommend installing the latest BIOs and drivers online instead of the included CD as they are outdated.

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This is great for an HTPC build. It even has Display Port. Only complaint is the Firewire pins are in the center of the board and not on the bottom.

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Perfect mb, every connection that people needed is on board. And support lots of CPU. Also an not bad integrated display chip on it. Perfect AMD motherboard.

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Pretty good =)

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Very good board, better price. Everything you need for an htpc is onboard aside from a tuner. This also will support the new line of am3 cpus.

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Overall this is a nice board. Excellent selection of connections, good performance from the AMD chipset. 3yr warranty is a bonus though don't count on quality from Asus RMA support anymore (They are not real techs in that dept)The cd is beyond lame trying to force install of bloated nortons etc... and is beyond out of date. Skip such and just download the latest drivers online. And skip the ATI CCC which is flaky as always but is really not needed. DVI out didn't work with one monitor here for some strange reason.. but it does work nicely with others. Also for some ppl's needs the Express gate will be a bonus.

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excellent rien a dire sur la performance supporte bien mon Athlon X2 7750 oc a 3.2ghz je racheterais sans hesité

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I bought this motherboard cause of it's strengths. Though once I got it installed and turned it on, both power & cpu fan were locked at 100% making my system sound like a blow dryer... there was no solution from ASUS or NCIX other then to RMA it, which sucks! If the board came to me 100% working I would give it 5 stars forsure.

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Great motherboard for an HTPC machine or browsing computer. I got this motherboard with an AMD 4850e for my HTPC box and it rocks, got DXVA to work with my High Def videos and it's beautiful to see the built-in Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 3200 GPU do all the work while the CPU stays at 1-5% utilization.

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Pour le qualité prix, cette carte maitresse est exellente conte tenu quelle support la dernier génération de processeur.A mort cataclism (Driver ATI)

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Parfait pour le multi-media.La ATI HD 3200 fait le travail.Par contre pour le gaming avancé, je conseillerais de la faire fonctionnée en hybride sur vista avec le rajout d'une autre carte video. Les drivers ATI ne sont pas tout-à-fait au point.Qualité/prix 9/10

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well first of all, this, i got at a good deal. works well with amd x4 9950. would get it again if i could. If the price were lower, i would get 2, even if i can only use onegot a samsung 640gb hd w/ it and 4 gbs of ram

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As usual Asus offers a great board, i like the onboard sound, the avaliability of multiple processers eg athalon 64x2 phenom quadcore....ram choices for size and bus are awesome. The back up onboard video is great. ASUS does it yet again A++++++++++++

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Acheté en spécial à $83 ce fut une aubaine. Ce MOBO vaut la centaine de dollar ($109). Il a toutes les caractéristiques pour faire un PC multimédia complet. Très bonne carte vidéo monté sur la carte mère, il est en plus HDMI et possède la connectivité Firewire. Pour l' overclocking cependant je n' ai pas fait d' essai. Fortement recommandé.

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Purchased to build a htpc, working flawlessly as such. All required features aside from tuner are onboard. Using in an apex dm317, JUST fits. Have not had any issues thus far, would definately use again for another htpc or a system that wouldn't require a standalone video card.