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Gigabyte
GA-81915P Duo Pro-A
Gigabyte just sent us
over an interesting motherboard, the GA-81915P Duo Pro-A. This board gives
you the flexibility to keep your DDR and your AGP video card with the option to
later upgrade to DDR2 and PCI Express. This sounds perfect for the person
that wants to gradually upgrade their system. I know that upgrading your
CPU and board can be a little expensive, but at least now you don't have to
upgrade the RAM and the video card at the same time. I recently switched
over to PCI-Express and due to the expense involved I was unable to get the
video card that I wanted. So far gigabyte has pitched what sounds like a
sweet concept and motherboard, let's see how it performs.
Specifications
Processor
LGA 775 for Pentium® 4 Processor
Chipset
Northbridge : Intel® 915P
Southbridge : Intel® ICH6R
Integrated Peripherals :
T.I. IEEE1394 controller
2 x Broadcom PCIe X1 Gigabit Ethernet controller
C-Media 9880 audio codec
VIA VT6410 RAID controller
Front Side Bus
800/533 MHz FSB
Memory
Type: Dual Channel DDR2 533/400 Dual Channel DDR400/333
Max capacity: 4 GB
DIMM slots: 2 DIMMs for DDR2, 2 DIMMs for DDR
Internal I/O Connectors
4 x Serial ATA connectors
2 x USB 2.0 connectors (4 ports by cable)
1 x FDD connector
1 x UltraDMA 100/66 IDE
2 x UltraDMA 133 IDE
2 x IEEE 1394 connectors (3 ports)
1 x COM B connector
3 x cooling fan pin headers
1 x CD in
1 x 24-pin ATX Power connector
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
Expansion Slots
1 x Gear slot
1 x PCIe X 16 slot
2 x PCIe X 1 slots
2 x PCI slots
Rear Panel I/O
4 x USB 2.0 ports
2 x RJ45 LAN ports
2 x S/P DIF jacks (In/Out)
6 x Audio jacks (7.1-Ch Out / Line-in / Mic in)
1 x COM port
1 x LPT port
2 x PS/2 ports(Keyboard/Mouse)
Form Factor
ATX
30.5cm x 24.4cm
H/W Monitoring
ITE 8712F
System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, power-in voltage, CPU
voltage, and fan speed.
BIOS
2 x 4M bit flash ROM
Other Features
C.I.A. 2 (CPU Intelligent
Accelerator 2)
M.I.B. 2 (Memory Intelligent Booster
2)
EasyTune™ 5
M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent
Tweaker)
Download Center
S.O.S. (System Overclock Saver)
C.O.M. (Corporate Online Management)
Miracle of Xpress3
Bundle Software
Norton Internet Security 2004
Norton Anti Virus™
Norton™ Personal Firewall
Norton™ Privacy Control
Norton™ Parental Control
Norton™ Spam Alert
GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader
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