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JETWAY HZ03 MOTHERBOARD


Jetway's new HZ03 motherboard has hit the scene with a splash!  This innovative microATX MB is one of the few AM3 systems with the 880G + SB710 chipset and has support for AMD's 125W CPUs.  Only the top-end Phenom II 965 BE exceeds that rating. 

Here are the specs and images of this wonderful system:

  • AMD™ 880G Chipset and AMD™ SB710 Chipset

  • Supports AMD AM3 Series processors

  • Integrated ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics (Support Directx 10.1)

  • Supports ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology Supports ATI CrossFireX Technology

  • Support G.P.I Technology

  • Support 3D Audio Technology

  • Supports Dual Channel DDR3 1600/1333/1066MHz

  • Integrated Serial ATA2 3Gb/s with RAID function

  • Integrated Gigabit LAN Integrated ALC883 HD Audio CODEC with 8-CH CPU Vcore 7-Shift / DVI Port/HDMI port/VGA port

  • Support ACPI S3

  • Integrated DDR3 128MB side port memory

  • Micro ATX Form Factor (245mm x 245mm)


  

   

 

AMD 880G Chipset 
The AMD 880G Chipset with ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics enables an exceptionally power-efficient platform at an incredible value. Bringing features and performance that enrich what you see and do, including next generation gaming and a superior HD video experience1, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4250 Graphics with AMD 880G Chipset transforms your PC into a digital media powerhouse

Hyper Transport Technology 3.0
The highly scalable Hyper Transport 3.0 is capable to provide incredible bandwidth of the system bus up to 20.8GB/s which would dramatically elevate the efficiency of computing performance.

ATI Hybrid Graphics Technology
To provide better gaming performance than a single graphics card, the innovative design of ATIª Hybrid Graphics Technology is capable to bring additional performance increase up to 1.75X by enabling the power of both integrated graphics core and the add-on graphics card simultaneously

AMD New generation of 45nm AMD Socket AM3 processors 
The 45nm AM3 processors that support Hyper Transport 3.0 Bus and integrate DDR2 & DDR3 memory controller, To provide advanced visual design and modeling, serious gaming, and visually stunning digital media and entertainment.

GPU Clock Adjustable
Onboard VGA can over-clocking

Serial ATA2 3Gb/s&RAID 
This platform supports reliable storage solution for enhanced data protection and data accessing performance. Serial ATA 3Gb/s is firstly introduced in this platform to provide blazingly 3Gb/s bus bandwidth thus higher disk performance. The SATA RAID allows multi-disk designs to be set up as RAID 0, 1,10 based on users’ priority of protection/performance, and which even makes more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility

PCI-Express Gigabit LAN
Delivers transfer speed ten times faster than conventional 10/ 100 Ethernet connections, supporting a high transfer rate up to Gigabit/s. Gigabit LAN is the networking standards for the future and is ideal for handing large amount of data such as video, audio, and voice

OC-CON high-polymer solid electrolysis aluminum capacitors embedded
The working temperature is from 55 degrees Centigrade below zero to 125 degrees Centigrade, OC_CON capacitors possess superior physical characteristics that can be while reducing the working temperature between 20 degrees Centigrade each time, intact extension 10 times of effective product operation lives, at not rising degrees Centigrade of working temperatures each time a relative one, life of product decline 10% only too.

CPU Vcore 7-Shift / Shift to the scalabilities and flexibilities
The adjustable voltage for CPU Vcore can be upgraded in 31 stages for the precisely hardware dynamic over-clocking of demanding computing performance.

We tested the HZ03 with Windows 7 x64 using an AMD Phenom II 955, and we got some pretty amazing results:

Mem

DVD Shrink 3.2*

WinRAR 3.62

Full Power

Idle Power

Memtest86: L1/ L2/ Main

Prime 95, last #

Super Pi Mod, 1M

Full CPU

Low CPU

DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 8:29 2359 212 162 102 39688, 17471, 8979 6.577 ms 21.422s
Mem Cinebench10 3D Mark03 3D Mark05 3D Mark06
1 CPU n CPU

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

CPU Test1

CPU Test2

DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 2946 10456 180.2 41.1 7.0 13.3 1.587 2.311
 
Mem Everest Ultimate Edition
CL-RCD-RP-RAS Mem
Read
Mem
Write
Mem Copy Mem Latency
DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 11-11-11-30 CR1 8651 MB/s 6656 MB/s 9140 MB/s 52.9 ns
 
Mem Everest Ultimate Edition
CPU Queen CPU PhotoWorxx CPU ZLib CPU AES FPU Julia FPU Mandel FPU SinJulia
DDR3-1600, 2x 2GB 19927 48299 86055 KB/s 23202 16150 10760 16589

We also played several HD movie titles from either a BD disc or a video file without any issues.  Because the HZ03 has an HDMI output, this makes it ideal for an HTPC platform, complete with HD audio support over HDMI.  Its built-in Radeon 4250 graphics core offloads video processing from the CPU, and enhances video quality without consuming CPU cycles.  Remarkable!

Only a couple of minor issues exist with the HZ03:  

  • No 1394 - useful when connecting DVRs and camcorders

  • SB710 does not support SATA port multipliers - cheaper than a RAID controller to connect up to 5x HDDs to one SATA port

  • Power connectors should be adjacent to each other for neater cable routing

We are very pleased to award the Jetway HZ03 a 90% score!

 

 

 

 


 

 

 



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