MSI KA780G or ASUS M3N78pro

[Toine3]

Could not find any testing those two mobo together, any passmark/benchmark testing available to compare these or any advices? Read some testings about the ASUS but none for the MSI, normally this implicate that it is not a populair product, wich could be because its not good.

I will do no extreme overclocking, no Xfire/SLI, only performance, bugfree, solid and reliable is counting here for me.
It will be a internet/Email/photoshop/video workhorse, no high performance games, its for my dad computer upgrade.

ASUS got a GF8300 chip and the MSI a AMD780G/700 (Nb/Sb) chipset.
ASUS DDR2-1066 suport only for one DIMM per channel, MSI appears to have no problem here.
Any advice/help here for selecting, did some try at another forum but no results, maybe you can help me here.

Thanks

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&prod_no=1617
http://nl.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=149&l3=676&l4=0&model=2260&modelmenu=1

 

[velozzity]

Toine, I may well be wrong, but officially AMD only supports 1 dimm per channel of 1066 because thats what the IMC (which is on the processor) can deal with. That is independent of the motherboard and should'nt make any difference if it is a AMD chipset or a Nvidia Chipset. I think the 780G may be a more powerful chipset as far as graphics go if you can consider integrated graphics powerful. Have you thought about gigabyte.

Check out this board, I bought It before I bought the one I have now and It was a very very solid feeling board, felt like you could have driven a truck over it and it still been fine. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128379
I kept it about 3 days and returned it only because I was overclocking my phenom II (750 mhz over stock per sig) and wanted more options in the bios to tweak some things but overall it seemed like a nice value board.

 

[QuietIce]

I've heard nothing about the MSI board at all. The ASUS board is fine for stock rigs but not the best OC'er in the world ...

 

[Toine3]

Velozzity: The Gigabyte is a mATX, to avoid problems in future upgrading I have selected a ATX.
QuiteIce: Its for my Dad's PC, OC will be minimal, but I must admit that there is no review on Google search, means that this board is not popular and normally there is a negative reason for this.

ASUS DDR2-1066 support only for one DIMM per channel: Still find it strange that for Nvidia chip sets ASUS made this 1066RAM DIMM notification, but for the AMD780G/700 chipset there is no DIMM notification??.

 

[QuietIce]

It may be that the other board(s) came out after AMD made their full announcement about the issue ...