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<blockquote data-quote="kszabo" data-source="post: 249109" data-attributes="member: 61646">Since today there are several new 780G mainboards listed in Germany!!! Gigabyte is not alone at last:ABIT AS78 (no information at all)ASRock A780FullDisplayPort (µATX, with HDMI adapter, has Firewire)MSI K9A2GM-F V2 (no HDMI port, ATX &lt;- bad)Elitegroup A780GM-A (has HDMI port but ATX form factor)ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI (HDMI, µATX but no Firewire)But the online shops still don´t have them in stock (say matter of few days or weeks).So opimal HTPC Board for me remains the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and the new Asrock A780FullDisplayPort (µATX, Firewire, HDMI port). BUT we should wait for the MCP78 chipset from nVidia. It could have the advantage that it works with XP (the AMD solutions work only with Vista currently) and have better audio through HDMI. The Asus M3N78-EMH looks promising but needs a Firewire PCI extension</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kszabo, post: 249109, member: 61646"] Since today there are several new 780G mainboards listed in Germany!!! Gigabyte is not alone at last: ABIT AS78 (no information at all) ASRock A780FullDisplayPort (µATX, with HDMI adapter, has Firewire) MSI K9A2GM-F V2 (no HDMI port, ATX <- bad) Elitegroup A780GM-A (has HDMI port but ATX form factor) ASUS M3A78-EMH HDMI (HDMI, µATX but no Firewire) But the online shops still don´t have them in stock (say matter of few days or weeks). [B]So opimal HTPC Board for me remains the Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H and the new Asrock A780FullDisplayPort (µATX, Firewire, HDMI port). BUT we should wait for the MCP78 chipset from nVidia. It could have the advantage that it works with XP (the AMD solutions work only with Vista currently) and have better audio through HDMI. The Asus M3N78-EMH looks promising but needs a Firewire PCI extension[/B] [/QUOTE]

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