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This motherboard supports next-generation SATA hard drives based on the SATA 3Gb/s storage specification. It provides convenient connectivity to external home theater audio systems via coaxial and optical S/PDIF-out jacks. It allows you to transfer digital audio without converting to analog format and keeps the best signal quality.
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Technical Details
- Form Factor - ATX Form Factor- CPU Socket Type - LGA 775
- CPU Type - Core 2 Quad/Core 2 Extreme/Core 2 Duo/Pentium dual-core/Celeron dual-core
- Chipset - Intel P43 / Intel ICH10R
- Number of Memory Slots - 4 x 240pin DIMM
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By airfirehorse (Outer Space)
I bought this board specifically because it has old and new ports on it. It has parallel (old printer) and serial ports as well as FireWire and USB. It even comes with SATA ports built in (no need to attach that motherboard SATA slot cover many hard drives seem to come with now).
It also doesn't have video, which to me was preferable because I planned to put in my own VGA card. It always seems like a waste to me to have on-board video and then use something else. Like the title of the part states, it's a 775 socket Intel board so don't get it for AMD or those i5 & i7 Intel CPUs.
I had this board put in a new custom PC. I'm using the Q8400 Quad Core 2.66GHz CPU and 4GB of RAM. Speed is blazing! I am also using an ASUS EN9500GT 1GB VGA card and displaying onto a 42" Magnavox LCD TV. I have a Hauppauge 2250 dual TV tuner installed and even recording and watching TV does not push the CPU usage very high. I use a Desktop Gadget called All CPU Meter (available on MS site for free) and usually only one or two cores is even active (it displays all 4 cores).
I have 4 different USB devices hooked up: a Logitech Trackman, the Logitech MK700 wireless desktop (KB & mouse), the Media Center IR receiver, and an APC UPS backup. All 4 work flawlessly; the wireless stuff even works from over 10 feet away. I don't use RAID so I can't comment on that, but my 1TB Western Digital green drive works fine.
This board went into an Apevia X-Master case well, although one bad thing is how close the PCIe slots are too each other. I actually cannot put in another PCIe TV tuner due to the fan and heatsink of the VGA card. The two PCIe x 1 slots surround the one PCIe x 16 slot. This is a bad design. The PCIe x 16 slot, which is almost always used for VGA these days, should be further away from the PCIe x 1 slots. In fact, there are 3 PCI slots and they could've placed the PCIe x 1 slots beyond those or just given the VGA slot more room. This means if I want to add another tuner (and I DO) I must use a PCI TV tuner, which is not as fast.
Another oddity is the bright pink USB and SATA ports on back. They should have made USB one color and SATA a different color. Looking over the case to plug stuff in it's hard to tell which are which (the SATA port is on top of the USB ports in one case). I think every type of port should get its own color like the sound jacks.
You must buy DDR3 RAM for this board. DDR2 is not interchangeable with DDR3. It's an ATX board, but in the Apevia case there is some room around the sides of the motherboard (the case wires are a little short, though). Not that many people will mind, but this motherboard does not have a floppy controller. It only mattered to me because I had a card reader with a floppy drive in it I wanted to use rather than buy a different card reader. And I seriously doubt anyone sells floppy controller cards these days so legacy lovers won't be completely satisfied.
Anyway, I do like the motherboard a lot and it runs like a top. I am using this board with Win7 Pro 64-bit. No problems so far.
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