GeForce 8000 series is a series of Nvidia motherboard chipsets aimed at home theater PC and gaming pc solutions using CPUs by AMD (for its Intel CPUs equivalent see GeForce 9300 or GeForce 9400 chipsets [1] ). The chipsets are capable of full 1080p Blu-ray and HD DVD playback with most processing being done by the integrated chipset from the motherboard and not requiring an additional video card. [2]
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| NVIDIA Hybrid SLI Technology | GeForce Boost technology, HybridPower technology |
| Graphics | DirectX 10 support, PureVideo HD, 8 stream processors |
| Display Options | HDMI, Single Link DVI, VGA |
| Expansion Slots | PCI Express 2.0 support, 1 x16, 3 x1, Up to 5 PCI Slots |
| CPU | AMD Phenom, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 |
| CPU socket | Socket AM2+/AM2 |
| Memory | DDR2 1066/800/667/533 |
| Storage | NVIDIA MediaShield Technology, Up to 6 Serial ATA 3.0 Gbit/s drives, Up to 2 PATA drives (Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33), RAID configurations 0, 1, 0+1, 5 |
| Networking | Native Gigabit Ethernet connection, NVIDIA FirstPacket technology |
| USB | Up to 12 USB 2.0 ports |
| Audio | VIA / Nvidia High Definition Audio |
| Chipset | Manufacturer | Model | Form Factor | Integrated HDMI 1.3 | HDCP Key | Other features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce 8100 | Zotac | GF8100-A-E | mATX | No | Yes | HDMI by adapter, D-sub, DVI |
| ECS | mATX | No | Yes | HDMI by adapter, D-sub, DVI | ||
| GeForce 8200 [3] | ASRock | K10N78FullHD-hSLI | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI by adapter, D-sub, DVI |
| ASUS | M3N78-EMH HDMI | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI | |
| Biostar | GF8200 M2+ | mATX | No | Yes | D-sub, DVI | |
| ECS | GF8200A | ATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub | |
| EVGA | 113-M2-E113-TR | ATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI | |
| Gigabyte | GA-M78SM-S2H | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI | |
| GA-M85M-US2H | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI-D, NVIDIA Core Calibration [4] | ||
| MSI | K9N2GM-FIH | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub | |
| XFX | MB-N78S-8209 | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI, NVIDIA Core Calibration | |
| MI-A78S-8209 | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI, NVIDIA Core Calibration | ||
| Shuttle Inc. | SN78SH7 | SFF | Yes | Yes | HDMI, DVI by adapter | |
| GeForce 8300 | ASUS | M3N78 PRO [ permanent dead link ] | ATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI by adapter |
| XFX | MI-A78U-8309 | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI, D-sub, DVI | |
| Zotac | GF8300-A-E | mATX | Yes | Yes | HDMI by adapter, D-sub, DVI |