Zol has managed to grab a sample of a new AM2+ motherboard based on the upcoming MCP78 from Nvidia.
After being mostly disappeared from the market for some years, Soyo seems to be eyeing a comeback. So here you have a board full of non-standard colored slots and ports and even an impressively organized layout. Sadly that PCB color seems like something one could vomit, so there goes the styling effort.
Specifications are mostly the same as with all MCP78 boards: HDMI, DVI and VGA outputs, six SATA ports, support for lots of USB ports and one IDE. Specific to this board is the four phase power circuitry, in a very clean design, and even solid capacitors for the more important parts of the board.
Zol ran some benchmarks in Vista with an X2 3600+ CPU, and got this in 3DMark:
2001: 7072
2003: 2598
2005: 1461
2006: 774
Not bad for an integrated graphics chip today, but far from impressive and, from what we know, ready to be trounced by the RS780.
Keywords: RS780 MCP78 Nvidia Soyo 3DMark HDMI DVI
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