Advantages: Dual bios and great stability Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings
or advertised by the manufacturer.
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Technical Data;
Form Factor-
31.1cm x 25.3cm ATX size form factor,4 layers PCB.
CPU-
AMD Athlon/Duron (K7)Socket A Processor 128 L1 and 256/64K L2 cache on die.Supports 500MHz - 1.2GHz+ and faster.
Chipset-
VIA KT266 Chipset,consisting of; VT8366 Memory/AGP/PCI Controller(PAC). VT8233 Intergrated Peripheral Controller(PSIPC).
Clock Generator-
W255/W312/SOP48.
105/110/115/133 MHz system bus speeds.
Supports 100-179MHz.
200/266 MHz FSB and DDR bus speeds (PCI 33MHz).
Memory-
3x184 pin DDR sockets.
Support DDR DRAM PC200/266.
Supports up to 3 GB DDR.
Supports only 2.5V DDR DIMM.
I/O Control-
IT8705.
Slots-
1 AGP Pro slot supports 4xmode and AGP 2.0 compliant.
5 PCI slot supports 33MHz and PCI 2 ...
Advantages: cheap, does the job Disadvantages: graphics card obscures one of the pci express slots
Having no idea which Motherboard we needed to buy, we looked on the internet to see what was going for what price.
Having used Gigabye Motherboards in the past and never had any trouble with them the wisest thing to do was to keep to Gigabyte.
We decided on the GigabyteGA-945P-DS3 purely on the features it offered.
Cost
Around £46. For a motherboard this is good.
Features
Width: 30.5 cm
Depth: 19.3 cm
Compatible Processors: Pentium 4, Celeron D, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme
64-bit Processors Compatibility: Built-in
Processor Socket: LGA775 Socket
Multi-Core Support: Dual-Core
FSB Speed: 1066 MHz Max
Power Connectors: 4-pin ATX12V connector, 24-pin main power connector
SATA 11 with 4 SATA 11 connectors
3 pci slots, 1pci express x 16, 3 pci x 1
takes up to 4 gb of ddr2 memory ...
Advantages: Supports fast CPU's (upto Athlon 3200+), Crammed with features Disadvantages: None really
of this is that there are 4 DIMM memory slots, the first orange, the next purple, then orange, then purple. These two colours represent two different channels - DIMM's 1 and 2 are channel A and DIMM's 3 and 4 are channel B. Therefore by plugging the relevant DIMM's into the same colour sockets you can take advantage of the high speed RAM the motherboard offers.
The motherboard itself measures 30.5x 24.4 cm, which is the norm really for ATX style motherboards, suitable for the ATX type PC cases (Towers).
I feel that the components on the motherboard are laid out really sensibly. The IDE connectors on the side nearest the optical drives and storage drives, so that the cable for this doesn't have to be too long and therefore restrict airflow inside the PC case, and can be tucked away easily. The jumpers and pins for the case power-on button ...
PRODUCT FEATURES: Ultra Durable 3 technology with copper cooled quality for lower working temperature Revolution energy saving design with DES Advanced featuring hardware based Dynamic 6-Gear switching Supports 3 channel DDR3 2100+ memory by 6 DIMMs Scalable ability to both 3 way CrossFireX and 3 way SLI support for ultimate graphics performance Advanced 12+2+2 power phase design with VRD 11.1 support Unique hardware control IC to provide more precision voltage control Onboard Debug LED display simplifies motherboard troubleshooting Patented DualBIOS with dual hardware BIOS protection 2 Gigabit Ethernet LAN with teaming functionality Supports Dolby Home Theater audio to create a stunning surround sound listening experience Power/reset/Clr CMOS onboard button for easily operation on the workbench
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