Introduction
Date 2004-03-14
Provider: Chaintech
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Chaintech 9PJL Apogee P4 motherboard
This is our first Chaintech motherboard review. It’s nice to review a new brand and to see what it goes for. Chaintech has made themselves very known lately for quality boards that perform very well. We have one of their P4 boards called 9PJL apogee that we will have a closer look at so stay tuned.
About Chaintech:
The”chain mark” symbol implies Chaintech’s mission to create the infinite possibilities of technology and chain the innovation with humanity. There are also two circles that look like the numbers”8″and”6″which indicate the remembrance of Chaintech’s establishment in 1986
Specifications:
Form Factor: ATX (305mm x 244mm)
CPU: Supports Intel Socket 478 CPU with Hyper-Threading Technology
Supports Intel Pentium4/Celeron system bus at 400/533/800MHz
Supports Intel Prescott CPU
Chipset: Intel 865PE + ICH5, supports Hyper-Threading Technology
Main Memory: Four 184-pin DDR DIMMs up to 4GB
Supports Dual-Channel DDR266/333/400 memory
Expansion Slots: One 1.5V AGP slot for 8X/4X AGP
Five 32-bit PCI slots (v2.2 compliant)
Audio Subsystem: Full-duplex operation for simultaneous recording and playback
6 channel speaker audio supports
Embedded 32OHM 5w earphone amplifier
Supports MIDI and Game port
32 Voice HRTF 3D positional audio, CRL 3D supports MS Direct
Sound3D, Aureal A3D and Creative EAX APIs
Video Subsystem:4X/8X AGP
UltraDMA IDE: PortsSupports PIO Mode 4 up to 16.6 Mbps, Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 and Ultra DMA mode 5 up to 100MB/s with Bus Mastering
Bus-Mastering software drivers for all common multitasking operating systems
Embedded USB Controller: Three EHCI USB 2.0 Controllers support total 8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports
Support USB 2.0 High-Speed Device @480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
Optional USB adapters for additional USB2.0/1.1 ports
On Board Super I/O Controller: ITE 8712 LPC I/O with system monitors hardware
Two UARTs support serial ports and IR function (up to 115.2Kbps)
for HPSIR and ASKIR
One SPP/ECP/EPP parallel port
One floppy disk drive connector supports up to 2.88MB
Embedded system monitoring: 8 external voltage inputs
2 temperatures sensing for CPU and system
3 Fan speed (CPU, System and Case) monitoring
Boot-Block Flash ROM: Award system BIOS support PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI, & Multi-device booting features
Software: Driver CD (Chipset Autodetect)
Value Pack 2003
APOGEE overclocking utility
Back panel I/O connector :
One PS/2 mini-DIN mouse and keyboard ports
Four USB Ports and one RJ45 connector
Two 9-pin D-SUB male Serial ports
One 25-pin D-SUB female Parallel port
Audio Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in jacks
On-board LAN controller:
On-board LAN chip RTL8101L supports 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet
On-board SATA Controller :
Build-in ICH5 supports 2 Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates (1.5Gbps burst)
On-board VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 Host Controller:
Serial bus data rates of 100, 200 and 400Mbps
IEEE P1394a compliant and IEEE 1394
Programmable ATA/ATAPI interface supporting PIO modes 0-4, DMA modes 0-2 and Ultra DMA modes 0-4
On board connector for external device:
Three 3×1 pin fan connectors
2×1 pin fan connector with housing for Northbridge
Two 5×2 pin USB connectors for additional 4 USB2.0 ports on CBOX2
6×1 pin Infrared connector
3×1 pin wake on LAN connector with housing
3×1 pin wake on Modem connector with housing
Two 4×1 pin CD-in connectors with 2.54mm pitch housing
4×1 pin Aux-in connector with 2mm pitch housing
4×2 pin Sub-Woofer connector for Surround and Center/Sub-Woofer phone jacks on CMK
9×2 pin front panel connector
5×2 pin front side audio connector for Headphone and Microphone jacks on CBOX2
5×2 pin Segment display connector for 2-digits Debug LED on CBOX2
Three 8×1 pin IEEE1394 connectors with housing for additional IEEE1394 ports (One connector for front IEEE1394 port on CBOX2; two connectors for two IEEE1394 ports on CMK)
8×2 pin connector for D-SUB female Game/MIDI port on CMK
17×2 pin floppy connector
The product:
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This is a very nice box that comes with a handle so you can easily carry it around. On the front we have a huge Chaintech logo and on the back we have a bunch of specifications and features that can be found on this motherboard.
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