Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G - AM3 mini ITX motherboard with PCI-E 2.0 16X slot!

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 14 Mar 2010 at 15:07

Finally socket AM3 has a decent mini-ITX motherboard available:

http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?psn=000101&pid=319&lid=1

It will cost around the £100 mark AFAIK.

JediFragger · 14 Mar 2010 at 21:51

Quality mITX motherboards are always welcome

McPhee · 17 Mar 2010 at 01:13

I buy a Q9505 and then Sapphire go do a thing like this. Typical...

TALON1973 · 28 Mar 2010 at 22:01

excuse my ignorance .... the differnce between this and the one in my sig is ???

cant complain about my 785g tbh

Azza · 28 Mar 2010 at 23:51

TALON1973 said:
excuse my ignorance .... the differnce between this and the one in my sig is ???

cant complain about my 785g tbh

That is micro atx and not mini ITX.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 2 May 2010 at 00:02

It seems that the motherboard can take 125W processors if cooled properly:

http://eu2.sapphiretech.com/archive..._list_of_IPC-AM3DD785G_634037499057187500.pdf

Tute · 2 May 2010 at 00:13

Pfft, I wouldn't trust it with anything less than an H5O or very top end air cooler.

Psypher5 · 2 May 2010 at 23:29

oxy might like this

HighlandeR · 6 May 2010 at 22:10

nice, and at least u save some dosh going amd cpus route... at least now can setup a cheaper htpc going amd instead.

craptakular · 6 May 2010 at 23:19

Psypher5 said:
oxy might like this

It's full of fail without a SPDIF port, I cannot use my header adapter as I would have a dual slot card, also I don't think it will take my 965 125w :mad:

Brian8bit · 17 May 2010 at 01:24

I would actually like to see this sold by OCuK. It'd make a great SFF cheap and cheerful AMD Athlon II build. Pair it with the Lian Li PC-Q08 and stick an H50 on the roof.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 17 May 2010 at 16:59

Here is a review of the motherboard:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon-ii-x2-250u_3.html

HighlandeR · 20 May 2010 at 20:10

review says its good, only thing I would say is for about 108 quid u can get the zotac intel board with 6x satas and similar specs and in stock today making it a much better deal, but with the issue the cheapest corei3 1156 socket cpu is still about 90 quid, and amds are 50+.

For the price/performance and the idea of building a future proof htpc/nas/server box be better spending the extra 40-50 quid ?

Id rather get a fractual nas box with p/s and mobo/cpu/ram and load it up with 2tbs and beyond