i haven't take out la haha
and i guess i won't take it out also 
Just went to puchong for TA690G's RMA
Guess how long it took?
It took me two minutes ~! 
The alphamatic staff don't even wanna check the mobo,
directly change a new mobo to me
my baby TA690G is back

TA780G is coming soon 

check the big caps behind the chokes at proc area...
solid state caps too~! 
previously on other Tforce mobo only use KZG caps 

edited: 6 SATA slots on a m-atx mobo , wanna break matx's record huh 

Edit again: OMG, the bios IC is exactly same as TA770+'s IC 
hopefully that's not the reason that TA770+ has slow bios boot up

Today Pconline released the review for RS780 and MCP78!

First they used following Mainboard for test it
--Onda A78GT(/w 64MB -2ns Ram)
--Foxconn A7GM-S (no Ram)
--Soyo MCP78
PCConfig: Catalyst 8.1 @ XP VS Foreceware 18.03 @ XP

Result (Faster to Slow,>>> Means Faster, > Means Fast little bit)
3Dmark 05 & 06: RS780 /w 64MB >>> MCP78 >RS780

Quake4, Serious Sam2, Farcry: RS780 /w 64MB >>MCP78>>RS780
Half Life 2, NeedForSpeed: RS780 /w 64MB >>>RS780>MCP78

**Just they menetion that in Game performance, RS780 /w 64MB @1014x768 also can get 25Fps at Serious Sam2, Farcry! so 64MB Ram Buffer Can improve Performance a lot, compare with no Ram.

PCmark, Sandra: MCP78> RS780 /w 64MB > RS780
**Pconline mention taht they just got few different.

AMD RS780 scores 53fps in DOOM 3 while RS690 scored 30.6fps Link
Posted on 01/24/2008 @ 12:47 PM


In our ongoing quest, we tested a X2 5000+ running on both a RS690 and RS780 mainboard.

Doom3 was used to test the integrated performance of the GPU. We set the game to run in 640x480 medium quality. With the 1 yr old RS690 (AMD 690G), it scored 30.6 fps. With the new RS780 chipset, it scored 55.3 fps. That is a 80% improvement or 1.8x faster over the old AMD 690G.

AMD RS780 is 261% faster than AMD 690G in 3Dmark06 Link
Posted on 01/23/2008 @ 10:52 PM


Today, AMD announces the AMD RS780 chipset in China. We have got hold of a unit and doing a review of it. At the mean time, we have discovered amazing benchmark results.

Using an AMD ATHLONX2 5000+, 2GB DDR2-800 Corsair memory. We test run 3Dmark05, 3Dmark06 and FEAR under VISTA Ultimate using the integrated graphics on a 690G board and RS780 board.

Here are the results :

3DMARK05 @690G=1105, @RS780=2495
Vista Experience Index @690G=3.1, @RS780=3.5
FEAR DEMO @690=15FPS, @RS780=29FPS
3DMARK 06 @690G : score=321, SM2:147, HDR/SM3=0, CPU score = 1860
3DMARK 06 @RS780: Score=1162, SM2:380, HDR/SM3=441, CPU score 1869

In terms of 3D graphics performance, AMD RS780 is 2x faster than AMD 690G. In 3Dmark06, the difference is shocking, 1162 vs 321. That is 3.6X difference.