Advantages: 8 USB ports in total; Good overclockability; Fast; MicroATX
Disadvantages: DDR RAM slots could support larger memory sizes; Could have support for RAID
I bought this from a computer fair, so I could build a cheap PC. I bought this motherboard, as it had a fast intel i865G chipset, and an AGP 8X slot. Some Asus boards on show didn't make use of AGP. I bundled this with 1 GB of RAM, a Pentium 4 2.8GHz CPU and a Radeon X1650 Pro. The Windows XP Home install literally took 15 minutes and the board had a good layout for each component. Frame rates in games are sky high, and this board easily overclocked the CPU to 3.06GHz without any change to the temperatures. The WatchDogABS overclock guard is useful too. ...
muffinsoul 17.11.2008
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ACPI support, DMI support, flash virus protection, power failure recovery (AC loss resume), Hyper-Threading Technology
Manual Settings
CPU frequency
Hardware Monitoring
CPU core temperature, chassis temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU core voltage
Sleep / Wake Up
Keyboard wake up, wake on modem (WOM), RTC (real-time clock) wake up, suspend to RAM (STR), wake on LAN (WOL), suspend to disc, mouse wake up, wake on PCI device
MX4SGI-N is Intel Socket 478 motherboard (M/B) based on the micro ATX form factor featuring the Intel Springdale-G chipsets. As high performance chipset built in the M/B, MX4SGI-N motherboard supports Intel Socket 478 Pentium 4 / Prescott / Springdale chipsets and 400/533/800MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) clock. In AGP performance, it has one AGP slot and supports both AGP 8X/4X mode and ADD card and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 2112MB/sec. According to different customer's requirements, this motherboard supports dual channel non-ECC DDR266, DDR333 and DDR400 SDRAM up to 2GB maximum. The onboard IDE controller supports Ultra DMA 33/66/100 mode, Serial ATA 150 and there are 3 PCI slots provided on this board. A total of 6 USB2.0 ports on the back panel and one USB2.0 connector on the board give you the best use of all USB devices. More than that, MX4SGI-N uses Intel LAN controller on board, providing you 10/100Mbps for office and home use. Besides, MX4SGI-N has a S/PDIF connector and an AC97 CODEC chipset onboard, providing high performance and magic surround stereo sound to let people enjoy working with it.
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