GA-8S661FXM is a highly value-oriented P4 platform with excellent performance and impressive features. Empowered by the latest SiS 661FX/963L chipsets, and Gigabyte's R&D... more
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Manual Settings: CPU frequency, processor core voltage, memory voltage, AGP slot voltage
Hardware Monitoring: CPU core temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU overheating protection, CPU core voltage
Sleep / Wake Up: Keyboard wake up, suspend to RAM (STR), mouse wake up, wake on USB port, wake on ring (WOR)
Hardware Features: Q-Flash
Manufacturer's product description
GA-8S661FXM is a highly value-oriented P4 platform with excellent performance and impressive features. Empowered by the latest SiS 661FX/963L chipsets, and Gigabyte's R&D expertise, GA-8S661FXM delivers a new architecture to uplift the system performance. The new framework supports DDR 400, AGP 8X and Intel Pentium 4 800MHz FSB 3GHz+ processor with Hyper-Threading Technology, while Hyper Streaming Engine technologies enhances the platform performance to extreme. The integrated graphics, Real 256E Graphics engine, provides high quality graphics to ensure outstanding visual experience for multimedia equipments. GA-8S661FXM also provides a variety of features such as 6 USB 2.0 ports, 6-channel audio with Jack-Sensing, 10/100Mbps network connection, and high speed ATA133 interface. GA-8S661FXM is designed to deliver the best all-in-one solution and fulfill the requirement for full range of applications now and future.
Advantages: Stability and price Disadvantages: Possibly limited PCI slot and memory DIMM's
...this with some memory I have kicking around it obviously didn't work. Upon browsing for this issue, I see others have tried it and even MSI has verified you cant run DDR2 and DDR consecutively on this board.
This would be a hindrance if we were talking about a full ATX board, however one active DIMM isn't really a big issue. In fact, the flexibility between DDR and DDR2 memory is quite welcoming.
MOTHERBOARD/GENERAL
Rear I/O panel:
1 x Serial port, 1 x PS/2 Keyboard and 1 x PS/2 Mouse, 1 x Audio (3 in 1), 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ45 LAN jack, 1 x VGA
As well as flexibility with the memory and cpu the motherboard also offers two onboard USB blocks, which will support a further four USB ports, on the front panel for example. Quite nice, as some other microATX boards I have seen only offer one block, which can be a problem if you have more...
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Advantages: Dual bios and great stability Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings
...GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.
Introduction;
This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system.
Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure.
Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented...
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Advantages: Supports all Athlon MP processors, CPU plug and play, Disadvantages: Not many overclock options, tempremantal onboard raid, registered memory recommended
...purchase of new Power supply,
Might mean purchase of new registered memory/ram,
3/ Upgrade to Athlon MP
Pros:
My current video card will work fine (AGP)
My current memory might work,
Cost is less than Athlon 64 or Opteron
Cons:
Might mean purchase of new power supply,
Might mean purchase of registered memory/ram
After weighing up the pros and cons, i decided to go for an Athlon MP based computer.
Keeping my eye out on ebay, and looking up all the available motherboard options, i decided to see if i could get a GigabyteGA-7DPXDW+.
The reason i chose this board above the others is:
Staggered 64bit PCI slots,
Onboard IDE RAID Controller,
Onboard Sound,
Onboard Network Card,
Standard ATX12v Power supply connection.
The board i purchased (from ebay) came with 1gigabyte of registered memory, and 2x Athlon MP 2600+ Barton...
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