Jetway has announced a novelty: the MA3-79GDG COMBO motherboard. It allows for the use of AMD CPUs from all three current sockets, plus both DDR2 & DDR3, an excellent option for upgrade conscious users. Read on for benchmarks.Dreadful color scheme aside, it is a very solid offer from Jetway, offering support for 125W CPUs, all solid capacitor design and 4+1 phases for the CPU's power supply, and even heatpipe cooling, all on a MicroATX design.
Crossfire support is also available through dual x16 PCI-e slots running at x8, courtesy of the 790GX chipset, paired with the SB750, both from AMD. The board also has 128MB of Sideport memory, for a higher performance from the integrated core.
CPU support spans to AM2, AM2+ and AM3 sockets.
Here are some quick tests comparing the performance of the HD3300 integrated core with DDR2 & DDR3:
As we can see, the perfomance was a bit higher because of the added bandwidth, mostly all around. Quake 3, being quite old, is not as GPU bound as the other tests, hence the lower performance in the 2.8GHz Phenom II 925, versus the 3GHz Phenom II 940.As for full layout and I/O ports, are as follows:
There's also a more of a "vanilla" flavor, the MA3-79GDG:
It has a less dreadful color scheme, the solid capacitors were replaced with high quality electrolytic capacitors from Panasonic and it mainaints that type of inductors that I simply love to have on a motherboard - you know, the no electrical noise ones.No DDR3 support on this one, but the rest is about the same.
No word on pricing as of yet, on either model.
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