Zotac GF8200A-E

Zotac GF8200A-E

Sudeep Naik, Jul 23, 2008 1750 hrs IST

Here's what the new Nvidia chipset is all about and how it compares to AMD's 780G chipset.

Supports Hybrid SLI, good real-world gaming performance, well priced.

Limited connectivity options, Average memory performance.

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After being bogged down by BIOS and stability issues everytime I tried to test Nvidia's 8200 chipset-based boards, I finally got my hands on a stable working sample of the same. Here's what the new Nvidia chipset is all about and how it compares to AMD's 780G chipset.

The Nvidia 8200 chipset

The 8200 is one of Nvidia's latest chipset that supports the Phenom-series of processors from AMD.

It offers support for Nvidia's Hybrid SLI technology, DirectX 10 graphics, a dedicated HD video processor, HDMI and DVI support. It also comes with a second generation PCI Express interface, HyperTransport 3 with link power management, Gigabit Ethernet, Serial ATA II and ATA-133 support, high-definition audio, USB2.0, PCI, real-time power management processor along with other standard features.

The 8200 supports a total of 19 lanes with configuration of 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 and 3 PCIe x1. The chipset also supports Shader Model 4.0, CineFX 4.0 Shading architecture, DX10 vertex Shader 4.0, etc. It incorporates a programmable PureVideo HD Video processor supporting full bitrate H.264, VC1, MPEG2 video decoding. There is support of NR, EDge Enhancement, Bad edit Correction, Inverse telecine, high quality scaling etc. Check out the specification below.





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Thanks for the nice review. If they had HDMI O/P this would have been a nice board. I think the price is a bit on the high side as I have owned a Biostar TA2+ 780G board for over a month and I paid Rs. 3800.

by Anand, Bangalore, on Jul 23, 2008 11:44 PM, Report abuse   Reply

I wanna know the price for ASUS M3A78-PRO price in kolkata........

by somantak, kolkata, on Jul 28, 2008 08:56 PM, Report abuse

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