Gigabyte is an international motherboards expert. Dedicated to customer service and high technology, Gigabyte has already earned a reputation for quality worldwide. With a long... more
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Networking: Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet - integrated
Features
BIOS Features: ACPI support, DMI support
Hardware Monitoring: CPU core temperature, power supply temperature, CPU fan tachometer
Sleep / Wake Up: Wake on modem (WOM), wake on LAN (WOL)
Manufacturer's product description
Gigabyte is an international motherboards expert. Dedicated to customer service and high technology, Gigabyte has already earned a reputation for quality worldwide. With a long history of commitment in the computer product design and production, and a team of highly skilled engineers in the motherboard nowadays, Gigabyte positions itself as a standard setter of price and performance in the manufacturing and marketing of motherboards. Gigabyte offers a complete line of advanced motherboards to meet the expanding needs of the personal computer market.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slot(s):
3 ( 3 ) x PCI
1 ( 1 ) x CNR
1 ( 1 ) x processor - Socket 370
2 ( 2 ) x memory - DIMM 168-PIN
Storage Interfaces: ATA-133 - connector(s): 2 x 40pin IDC
Advantages: Ideal for those with digital cameras of video editing Disadvantages: aimed more towards specialists
...his Gigabyte board is a Flip Chip Pin Grid Array board, using the VIA 594x Apollo Pro Family AGPset chipset, in an ATX format with FireWire support (hence the '1394') in the product name.
This latter feature, in particular, is unusual. Where many manufacturers might be tempted to add sound, modem, NIC or even SCSI support, Gigabyte is the first we've seen to add FireWire to this form factor, courtesy of a TI chipset. Also known as IEEE1394 (in deference to Apple) and i.LINK by Sony, this FireWire interface could be described as 'USB, but faster'. Watch for future features on this site where we explain all about FireWire.
Back to the board. This unit has five PCI slots, one of which is shared with an ISA slot, along with the obligatory AGP port and an AMR riser slot. Three DIMMs are onboard, each capable of handling PC-133 memory.
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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
Has on board audio which is great...
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Advantages: lots of features Disadvantages: cluttered design
...The GigabyteGA-8ANXP-D is the best motherboard out there in the market today, it also has a lot of package including DPS, and a Wireless LAN card. I buy this mobo for my new Prescott 2.8 GHZ hoping that this will be the most suitable partner for my processor. The motherboard includes 4 Serial ATA cables for use with either the native ICH6 supported connections, or those provided by the additional Silicon Image SATA RAID controller.
The package also includes a single IDE cable, single floppy cable with a color gray, There are 9 USB 2.0 ports which supports IEE1394 devices. You will never run out of USB ports with this motherboard. The installation guide is quick and easy to follow especially for those novice users including me. This motherboard really has a product manual and documentation.The only bad thing that I can say about...
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