Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H (AMD 780G)
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Date: 28.03.2008 |
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Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H supports six SerialATA-II lanes due to the latest south bridge SB700. Respective connectors are colored yellow and are positioned near the south bridge.
On the photo, we can see merely five connectors, with the sixth positioned on the rear panel. Besides, SB700 supports only one PATA link, which allows plugging in eight hard disks to Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H: six - over the SerialATA II, with 2 more via the ParallelATA.
Then, there is a Gigabit LAN controller RTL8111Ñ made by Realtek:
This chip is linked to the south bridge over the PCI bus, which is somehow strange because the developers have got a few more PCI Express lanes not engaged.
The board offers support for twelve USB 2.0 ports, four of which are mounted on the rear panel, with 8 more ports connected with brackets. Besides, the board offers support for the Firewire bus. For that, there is an additional Texas Instruments' TSB43AB23 controller on Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H. Therefore, the board supports two IEEE1394 ports (although the chip itself supports three ports): one positioned on the rear panel, with the other ones plugged in with a bracket.
The last thing to dwell on is the integrated High Definition Audio. Realtek ALC889A is used as the codec which supports output to 8 channels.
The board's rear panel looks like this:
On the panel, both COM and LPT ports are missing. Instead of them, there are video outputs of the integrated graphic core: VGA, DVI, and HDMI. The board supports one LPT and one COM port but with brackets. We also note that engineers at Gigabyte have brought one SATA and Firewire, as well as the optical SP-DIF over to the rear panel.
Traditionally, a jumpers layout diagram:
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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