J&W Mini-ITX 780G
J&W is a relatively new mobo maker from Hong Kong. They mostly specialize in AMD-based products and their latest mini-ITX 780G motherboard seems to be receive much attention from hardware specialists.
Although it measures 170mm x 170mm, the mobo packs some high-end features. It supports all Athlon 64, Athlon X2 and Sempron CPUs and even some lower-spec Phenoms (it’s limited to 95W CPUs). J&W ensures us everything will run as it should since they managed to pack all solid capacitors on this small board.
The embedded graphics are present thanks to the Radeon HD 3200 implementation provided by Radeon 780G Northbridge. The GPU has 128 MB of side port memory integrated on the board, so it should be a decent enough solution for multimedia use at least. The mobo also integrates Gb LAN, Realtek ALC 885 7.1 + 2 channel HD audio codec and it comes paired with the SB700 Southbridge.
You’d think this little thing wouldn’t be able to support many connectors, but check this out: it even has an HDMI port, along with the usual DVI and VGA, plus six USBs, eSATA, SPDIF both coaxial and optical and 7.1 analogue sound out. If those 6 USB ports don’t satisfy your needs, go ahead and use the provided header card with an additional 4 USBs. Add four SATA ports and a single PCIe 16X graphic port, and you almost have a mid-range full-ITX mobo. The bad news is that the mini-ITX factor only allows for SO-DIMM memory modules but that shouldn’t be much of a problem since you can still add up to 4GB RAM.
It seems that the Honk Kong manufacturer will first deliver these mobos to UK and then, hopefully, worldwide. Estimated price starts around 90 pounds.
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