Palit N78S

Packs Hybrid SLI support, but lacks a HDMI port.

Its early days for NVIDIA's new DX10 integrated chipset. But we'd still prefer to see driver support present for every feature. As it is, we can't comment on the effectiveness of Hybrid SLI or the crucially important PureVideo HD 2D video decoder until the software's there.

What we can say, however, is that Palit's implementation loses at least one brownie point compared with the Gigabyte board thanks to the lack of HDMI connectivity. It's an odd decision given that the NVIDIA GeForce 8200 chipset supports HDMI 1.3a. As for the 3D performance of that 8200 mGPU, the less said the better.

It sports a full DX10 feature set, but it's useless for PC gaming. That's a pity, but it’s all round performance is up to snuff and its power consumption is extremely impressive.

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