August 5, 2008- 3DGameMan recently published their latest video review of the abit AN78GS motherboard, a gaming motherboard for the enthusiast. The AN78GS received the “Kickass Gameman’s Choice” award. The review of the AN78GS impressed viewers at 3dgameman.com as well as on YouTube, the leader in online video, attracting more than 6000 people in 5 days.
Supporting NVIDIA’s Hybrid SLI Technology for improved 3D graphic performance, the AN78GS motherboard is based on NVIDIA® GeForce8200 with the integrated GeForce 8 series graphics supporting DirectX10 with Shader model 4.0 for greater and crystal clear graphics performance. The AN78GS motherboard supports AMD AM2+/AM2 processors running HT3.0 up to 5200MT/s. Four 240-pin DIMM sockets offer a maximum of 8GB memory capacity for Dual Channel DDR2 1066 modules.
“4 Phase OC-PWM provides longer service life, greater stability. The 4-phase PWM layout provides power and great stability for AM2+/AM2 CPU and offer higher over-clocking potential.”
“This motherboard also comes with passive cooling using just heatsinks and a heatpipe, so it is completely silent”
The abit Engineered, SoftMenu™, is one of the reviewer’s favorite features. “This is where you can overclock your CPU. You can adjust the external clock, multiplier, PCIe clock, and the voltages for the CPU memory, and North Bridge.”
 
“The BIOS has lots of excellent features, the most interesting one is the softmenu setup”
abit SoftMenu
The original jumperless motherboard design allows for CPU setting changes completely through the BIOS. For GigaOverclocking! Boost your PC's Performance by up to 50%. Convenient and easy-to-use fine tuning from within a self-explanatory BIOS menu.
The AN78GS has many features that surprised the reviewers making it and ideal choice a home theater PC setup. “Coupled with a fast CPU, this motherboard performs real well, much better than I expected, to be honest. This is a very inexpensive motherboard, but it comes with a lot of features, 7.1 CH Audio, onboard video that is capable of DirectX10, and has a VGA DVI and HDMI connection, so it is perfect for our home theater PC setup. And speaking of that, I actually hook this up to my particular video setup.”
“This motherboard has some decent overclocking options, bang-for-the-buck of this product is huuuuge, I give it a kickass rating”
Many fans of 3dgameman and abit love this clip and understand the AN78GS more through the review. The blue and black color and the clean layout make this motherboard even more popular. GelenorWoW comments “blue + black = a epic beautiful board :D”. RC18MT comments “Nice. It's a decent Mobo.” If you are interested in more comments and want to find out more detail about this motherboard, check it out! abit has their own channel on YouTube, where you can always find the latest video coverage related to abit. This review video is under the Favorites in abit channel on Youtube.
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