AMD, normally have a better back for buck in some of the cases in their overall products. With the Phenom II X4 processors not even exceed the $300 mark in some of the budgets. As, well as the Intel branch, which have indeed improved their Intel Core 2 with the Cori7, by incorporating onboard memory in the CPU and having a revision of the transfer structure of the whole processor and the motherboards to interact with the processor. But having to pay premium for the Corei7 brand, there is always a good alternative from the Corei7 configuration.
AMD’s motherboard chipset, the 785g chipset, consist of a new onboard dedicated graphics card, the so called HD4200, that has a the same core frequency specs given in the older 780G motherboards, with only the difference is an upgrade of the HD encoding, a combination of having a DDR2/3 memory hyper threading, given help from the newer AM3 socket configuration, and obviously the incorporation of the new AM3.
The ASUS trademark 785G chipset, the M4A785TD-V series, is a full ATX form factor motherboard filled with the usual features and standard extras that may improve enhance or just bring out more bling in one of their models, which is seen in the 785G chipset.
Physically the new 785G chipset from ASUS is normal in looks and having the standard five SATA ports with the final sixth as an e-SATA port in the back, four dual DIMM memory slots with a standard 1333MHz, the usual dual PCI-ex 2.0 slots for any discrete graphics cards to improve performance, capable of doing crossfire and also hybrid configuration of the graphics cards. Other features in the board, flashy blue heat sinks located in the south, also the north bridge chips and in the inclusion of the power regulators in the side, next to the CPU, a total of eight Phase to the CPU and two extra for extra stability in the memory and onboard chips. As for the other rest important features; the DVI, VGA and also HDMI ports in the back are used for the connection of the onboard graphics card.
Performance wise, the ASUS M4A785TD-V, is most par in most synthetic applications and benchmarks, as well as the usability of the HD4200 in the 785G, they have a stable 20 to lower frame rates in high end games, yes it is possible to over-clock like the rest of the onboard chipset that AMD makes, but not really necessary when you consider another extended graphics card. But the bad thing is with the 785G desirably, I would be relatively cheap in some respects, with almost the same power capabilities as the rest of the chipsets. As well as the same ultra durable 3.0 from Gigabyte, is the ASUS turbo V series with, as I said, the same features as the gigabyte version.
Most of the part in the ASUS and any other motherboard makers, they have the tendency to have, the same OEM chipset from any of the makers, NVIDIA, Intel and also AMD, and make or create boards of specific oriented audience, it can the budget, buyers of the market, or the more premium or the crazy type people who want to see the most potential of a chip. Either way, the ASUS M4A785TD-V series is a good budget, gaming onboard media player with a mix of DDR3 memory and fast cheap AMD processors in a good $97 for the motherboards.