This is a traditional product for this company
with essential functions and settings. As usual, the board arrived in the OEM
package.
Accessories:
- Documentation: brief user manual
in English;
- Cables: FDD, 1 ATA66/100/133;
- Bracket
for the rear computer panel;
- CD containing:
-
drivers;
- user manual in PDF;
- DirectX 8.1;
-
Adobe Acrobat Reader;
- NTI CD-Maker 2000 Standard;
-
RealOne;
- DFX for RealOne;
- Macromedia Shockwave 8
Test;
- Norton Internet Security 2002 with Antivirus;
-
Intel Active Monitor (for system monitoring).
Usually microATX boards are usually not handy in use, but in this case the
minimal set of components make it very convenient to use this board. The weak
points are only audio-ins located in front of the PCI and memory modules locked
with an inserted video card. It's not difficult to reach the only jumper when
the board is already installed. Its functions are shown on the textolite.
The 2-channel switching voltage regulator incorporates 3 capacitors of 3300
uF, 4 of 100 uF and several less capacious ones.
The following controllers
are integrated:
- audio controller based on the chipset's capabilities
and Analog Devices AD1980 AC'97 codec supporting 5.1 audio systems and having
connectors for front audio inputs/outputs;
- network controller based
on the chipset's capabilities and supporting 10BaseT/100BaseTX.
+5
V supplied in the StandBy mode is indicated with an onboard LED.
Non-unsoldered
connectors: CNR slot.
The system monitoring is supported by the SMSC
LPC47M172-NR chip. What is controlled:
- processor voltage, +3.3,
+5 and +12 V;
- speed of 2 fans;
- temperatures of the
processor (a built-in sensor) and the board (a built-in sensor).
There
are 2 connectors for adjustable and 1 for unadjustable connection of fans.
Brief characteristics of the board: memory slots - 2 DDR SDRAM; expansion
slots - AGP/ 3 PCI; I/O ports - 1 COM/ LPT/ 2 PS/2/ 6 USB 2.0; dimensions - 245x210
mm.
Settings:
| with jumpers and switches |
Configuration jumper |
Normal/ Config/ BIOS Recovery |
| BIOS based on Intel's v6.00 |
Setup of memory timings |
+ |
CAS Latency, RAS Active To Precharge, RAS to CAS Delay, RAS Precharge |
| Setup of memory frequency |
+ |
Auto, DDR266, DDR333 |
| Setup of AGP bus |
- |
|
| Setup of PCI bus |
- |
|
| Changeable scaler of AGP and PCI buses |
- |
|
| Manual assignment of interrupts |
+ |
|
| Changeable FSB frequency |
- |
|
| Changeable CPU multiplier |
+ |
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| Changeable core voltage |
- |
|
| Changeable memory voltage |
- |
|
| Changeable chipset voltage |
- |
|
| Changeable AGP bus voltage |
- |
|
We
used the BIOS p11 as the latest available version.
The board can be a
good choice for a cheap office computer.
Test results:
