Jetway M3A-880GP-LF Motherboard Reviews

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Jetway M3A-880GP-LF Motherboard Reviews – JETWAY is one manufacturer of motherboards, known for a long time as other OEM motherboard manufacturer. This time try again enliven the lineup JETWAY motherboards powered by AMD 880G chipset board with his release model number MA3-880GP-LF.

Although JETWAY been using AMD 880G chipset is still relatively new, JETWAY prefer to pair it with the southbridge chipset which had long been launched, the SB710. As a consequence the selection of SB 710, this board is only capable of supporting the use of SATA 2. For onboard graphics output that is owned by AMD 880G chipset, JETWAY provide port D-Sub, DVI, and HDMI. While on the audio side, JETWAY provides 5.1 channel audio Realtek ALC662 chip driven by.

Like most boards with a chipset that has onboard graphics, JETWAY designing this board with a micro ATX form factor. Selection of a micro ATX form factor board has sometimes created a layout that looks crowded. It is also experienced by this board. This board has only two RAM slots that can accommodate up to 8 GB RAM capacity. In addition to the limitations of the RAM slots, this board also provides a limited expansion slots. For this board, JETWAY only include one PCIe 16x slot and two PCI slots. Even so, the layout of this board deserves thumbs up because there was no problem on the slot cover or coincide with each other as is often experienced by the other board.

In tests done on this board, can result in a fairly high for the size of the board with AMD 880G chipset. In PC Mark Vantage tests, this board got score 7079 points and the testing SysMark, this board is to produce a score 187. While in 3D Mark Vantage test, AMD Radeon 4250 owned by this board to produce a score 409 points. Certainly the acquisition of such a high score can not be separated from the role SidePort memory of 128 MB which JETWAY included to assist the performance of onboard graphics board.

Despite having such a high performance board for the class size, JETWAY bundles only include the fairly minimal. Bundle included are two SATA cables, drivers, and a piece of paper containing the specifications and layout diagram of this board.

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