Asus M4A785-M Review

Specifications

Amongst the realm of cheap AMD motherboards is the ASUS M4A785-M motherboard. It has some of the best specifications for the price and it backs it up with everything else that you want as well. Of course this is cheap now and many people want that and cake to eat as well!

Memory - 16 GB (DDR2 1066 + 1200 Overclocked)

PCI - PCI Express 2.0 x16 (1) + PCI Express x1 (1) + PCI (2)

CPU - Phenom II + Athlon II + Athlon 64 + Sempron

CPU Socket - AM3 + AM2

SATA - 6x SATA 3 GBs

PATA - 1x PATA ATA133

Video - ATI Radeon HD 4200

Sound - VIA VT1708S (8 Channels)

Network - Realtek 8112L (10/100/1000 Mbps)

USB - 6x USB 2.0

HDMI - 1x HDMI

Optical - 1x Optical

Overview

You will be very impressed with what you get in the ASUS M4A785-M motherboard. It may seem too cheap to be able to offer much, but it has all the cool things the big boys have expect the other new computer parts. The integrated video card will help you if you don't have one and just need to have a decent image for your daily work. The Hybrid CrossFireX configuration will help your system run at peak performance. The HyperTransport 3.0 will make sure things will find the quickest way to happen when you are doing a variety of things.

I believe the biggest thing for this asus mother board is the fact that it is the best DDR2 computer ram memory motherboard available. You can find other motherboards like this, but not for this price. You can search motherboard reviews for more options.

You will even be more surprised to hear that this motherboard overclocks very well. It has held stable at speeds up to 4ghz with no problems. If you know what you are doing you can probably go higher with your abilities.

One thing that I have noticed recently is a large amount of DOA motherboards arriving to customers. They are all problems that can be RMA, but since it is ASUS that part goes smoothly enough. However, I have never had a problem with ASUS main boards so I am surprised to see that over 10% of buyers seem to be having this problem.

Price

You can purchase the ASUS M4A785-M for around $75 from an online retailer. You can purchase this from a local retailer, but it will be hard to find and will be a closer to $100 dollars. In the end, it is up to you to find where you want to buy your computer parts. I can only show you what computer parts will work the best.