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   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 12:28p
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The mainboard supports the AMD Phenom AM2+, AM 64 x3 dual core, Athlon 64 and Sempron processors. It has 4 DIMM of DDR2 of up to 32GB can be installed on board.

 

Newegg = $79.99

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135085
The board have great reviews from all over the net, and it based a a fantastic chipset!!

EWiz - only $60 after MIR!!!

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-GF82A

Hannover, Germany, 4th March 2008 – ECS, the worldwide leader of motherboard, graphics card, PC system, and notebook manufacturer, has announced the release of the ECS GF8200A Black Series motherboard. This powerful motherboard is the second member in the ECS black series motherboards, and with the support for the latest AMD Phenom™ Quad-Core processors, DirectX®, HDMI and showcases the exclusive GeForce® Boost and HybridPower™ Technology to upgrade vigorous performance and diversified applications.


Powered by GeForce® Boost and HybridPower™ technology, ECS GF8200A will bring the ability to flip between integrated and discrete graphics core according to users need. GeForce® Boost is a technology that turbocharges the performance so providing discrete GPUs more graphics processing prowess. On the other hand, HybridPower™ technology unleashes graphics performance for switching to low-power operation when you need quiet and lower- power operation. The innovative GeForce® Boost and HybridPower™ technology which allow the user to switch between the two GPU whenever they need performance for gaming or lower-power operation for surfing the web, emailing and word processing in the rest of time.
Featuring the latest AMD Phenom™ processors with AM2+ support, integrated dual DDR2 1066 memory controller, HyperTransport™ 3.0 Technology links. Besides, the ECS GF8200A motherboard incorporates a DX10, shader Model 4.0 graphics engine and also capable of driving a PCI Express 2.0 graphics card connection. The ECS GF8200A motherboard incorporates the most advanced technology and offers complete specifications for a wide variety of user demands.
The ECS GF8200A motherboard will showcase during 4th – 9th March, CeBIT 2008. Visit ECS at Hall 21, booth C10 in Hannover, Germany. For more information on the new ECS GF8200A motherboard, contact your local ECS sales agent today.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 12:28p

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   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 12:36p
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Nice chipset but ECS...

Also, don't think it has integrated HDMI 1.3 for those who care.
It'll will be in the ASUS MB.

8200 Wiki

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 12:46p
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I really want a motherboard based on the Geforce 8200. This motherboard basically brings back Soundstorm. However my home theater case only accepts micro-atx so I need to wait until a micr-atx version is released.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 1:00p
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The New ECS Black Series have some rave reviews, with the other boards compared, this is probaly the best choice for the nvidia gf8200 chipset!

btw the way the HDMI is Audio8CH + Video according to reviews on Newegg!

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 2:11p
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Umm... Make sure you understand this is Hybrid SLI

Hybrid SLI = FAIL.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 2:22p
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loraksus said:Umm... Make sure you understand this is Hybrid SLI

Hybrid SLI = FAIL.

Your posting = FAIL.

People can make their own decisions on the equipment, read their own reviews, and pick their own chipset. Your post was neither informative nor helpful.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 6:55p
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It looked like a winner...until I noticed that it lacked DVI output. This means that I would have to hook up my LCD using the VGA connection, I think.
Also (as if this matters anymore) it lacks the old school floppy, serial, and parallel connections that I am embarrassed to say that I actually use occasionally.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 7:00p
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kneeldug said:It looked like a winner...until I noticed that it lacked DVI output. This means that I would have to hook up my LCD using the VGA connection, I think.
Also (as if this matters anymore) it lacks the old school floppy, serial, and parallel connections that I am embarrassed to say that I actually use occasionally.

I am pretty sure you can use an HDMI to DVI adapter. I guess the only thing I would miss in the floppy if I was to use RAID and Windows XP.

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 7:38p
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Seriously, like this DVI to HDMI adapter that is $4 at monoprice? Note: The mobo does not come with this piece.
I could just plug this into the HDMI port and it would give me the same capabilities, and compatibilities as if I had an actual DVI port? Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, but I could easily see how this sort of setup (that is not EXPECTING the world of odd monitor resolutions) would be limited to the few resolutions that devices that are usually plugged into HDMI ports have.
I really want to be able to run at the full resolution of the monitor (1280x1024 on the monitor I would likely use with it initially).

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 8:21p
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Sweet. thats a great deal for the converter. Thanks

   posted: May. 1, 2008 @ 8:43p
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lzpoof said:People can make their own decisions on the equipment, read their own reviews, and pick their own chipset. Your post was neither informative nor helpful.

I just wanted to make sure people make the effort to understand what hybrid SLI actually is (and don't just buy this because they see "SLI" and "$60" in the title). Hybrid SLI is pretty restrictive.

HDMI to DVI will work fine. Kind of hard to screw that up

   posted: May. 2, 2008 @ 3:37p
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lzpoof said:loraksus said:Umm... Make sure you understand this is Hybrid SLI

Hybrid SLI = FAIL.

Your posting = FAIL.

People can make their own decisions on the equipment, read their own reviews, and pick their own chipset. Your post was neither informative nor helpful.

Actually I'll take it up one more notch:

SLI = FAIL

And particularly for HTPC application, you *WANT* acceptable performance for power consumption, noise reduction, heat generation, and resultant dissappation consideration, not squeezing that extra few percent at doubling of all of the other overhead.

   posted: May. 2, 2008 @ 3:42p
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pidge said:kneeldug said:It looked like a winner...until I noticed that it lacked DVI output. This means that I would have to hook up my LCD using the VGA connection, I think.
Also (as if this matters anymore) it lacks the old school floppy, serial, and parallel connections that I am embarrassed to say that I actually use occasionally.

I am pretty sure you can use an HDMI to DVI adapter. I guess the only thing I would miss in the floppy if I was to use RAID and Windows XP.

Seriously, there are so many ways around the floppy/RAID issue it's only beaten to death more than the analog VGA/no DVI issue. If your cable is less than 6', you DON'T need DVI. Analog VGA will be just fine. You will *NOT* notice any perceptable difference. Most people that thought they did actually were just noobs that didn't know about adjusting screen rez to native rez of the panel and relied on the DVI to do the PNP adjustment as the analog PNP was less reliable/pervasive.

   posted: May. 2, 2008 @ 3:44p
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Bleh, add $9.84 shipping to California. eWiz = ALWAYS FAIL..

   posted: May. 2, 2008 @ 3:55p
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by the way i just verified with ECS it is a HDMI 1.3~ last day for the deal!

   posted: May. 2, 2008 @ 9:39p
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GWBush said:SLI = FAIL
Sad, but true. Lets go kill some people in NVIDIA's marketing dept!

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