HDMI Motherboards That Support AMD 9850

• Any motherboard with an AM2+ socket should support the AMD 9850 chip. cpu 9 image by Robert Molnar from Fotolia.com

  A number of motherboards support the AMD 9850 chip and have built-in graphics that support the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard. The AMD Phenom X4 9850 chip is a quad core microprocessor (it has four processors on one chip) from AMD released in 2008 that fits the "AM2+" socket.

Biostar TA790GX

• The TA790GX supports AM2+ architecture, meaning it will work with the AMD 9850 chip. It also features the AMD 790GX chipset, which is the brain of the motherboard. Graphics are built into this motherboard and provided by an ATI Radeon 3300 graphics processor, which offers HDMI support. The motherboard features 128MB of on-board DDR2 memory. It also offers four slots for DDR2 memory that can be added to the motherboard and two PCI slots for expansion. Moreover, it has two PCIe x1 slots and two PCIe x16 slots. The motherboard has four USB ports and three more can be connected from your computer case. This motherboard also features a single IDE channel for connecting older PATA hard drives and CD/DVD drives.

Foxconn Cinema Deluxe

• The Foxconn Cinema Deluxe also supports AMD 9850 chips. The motherboard offers one PCIe x16 slot, two PCIe x1 slots and one PCI slot. It offers seven-channel audio and two IEEE 1394a (Firewire) ports. The motherboard features the AMD 785G + SB710 chipset. It can accept up to four SATA II hard drives or DVD drives and one eSATA device. Graphics are provided by the ATI Radeon 4200 graphics chipset with 128MB of on-board graphics memory. The motherboard also features an HDMI port for connecting to high-definition televisions or computers. It offers six USB 2.0 ports as well.

ASUS M3A78-T AMD 790GX

• Featuring the same 790GX chip set as the Biostar motherboard, this one from Asus offers an AM2+ socket to accommodate the 9850 chip. It also features four DIMM RAM slots and supports up to 16GB of RAM. The motherboard includes three PCIe x16 slots, one PCIe x1 slot and two standard PCI slots. Graphics are provided by an ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics processor. Twelve USB 2.0 ports are supported on this motherboard (six are built-in and six more can be connected from the computer case) as is an SPDIF port and eight-channel audio. This motherboard, like the Biostar, offers the older IDE (PATA) connection for older-style hard drives and DVD/CD drives. It also features an HDMI port and a single IEEE 1394a (Firewire) port.