Introduction
Date 2003-02-12
Provider: Gigabyte
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie
Gigabyte yes it’s time for another Gigabyte motherboard review. Tonight we are taking a deep look into the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra 2 motherboard. It has some neat features like Sata and Dual Bios etc etc. We are going to try some overclocking and do some benchmarking. I hope you get something out of this review and enjoy the reading…
About Gigabyte
Founded: April 1986
Employees: 3900 (Taiwan 2650; Overseas 1250)
Capital: US$142 million
Revenue: US$ 833 million in 2001
Date of TSE Listing: September 24, 1998 (Taiwan)
Date of LSE Listing: July 17, 2000 (Luxembourg)
Product lines: Motherboards, Graphics Cards, Desktop, PC Peripherals, IA, Server, Storage, and Networking Products.
Global Locations:
Los Angeles (USA), Tokyo (Japan), Hamburg (Germany), London (UK), Beijing (PRC), Guangzhou (PRC), Shanghai (PRC), Chengdu (PRC), Paris (France), Melbourne (Australia), Eindhoven (The Netherlands)
Specs on the motherboard
Processor
- Socket 478 for Intel� Pentium� 4 with HT Technology
Chipset
- Intel� 82845PE MCH
- Intel� 82801DB ICH4
- Intel� 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
- Silicon Image Sil3112A chip
- Promise 20276 RAID controller chip
- Realtek ALC650E Audio AC’97 CODEC
- Super I/O: ITE I/O IT8712F chip
- 2 x 4M bit flash ROM
FSB
- 533/400 MHz FSB.
Memory
- Type: DDR 266/333 ( PC2100/2700) Non-ECC
- 3 x DIMM
- Max capacity: Up to 2 GB
Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x FDD
- 2 x Serial ATA
- 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE
- 2 x UDMA ATA 100/66 Bus Master IDE
- 2 x USB 2.0 (4 ports by cable with rear USB bracket)
- S/P DIF input/output (with rear bracket)
- 3 x cooling fan pin headers
- CD/AUX in
Expansion Slots
- 1 x AGP 4x, supports 1.5v display card only.
- 6 x PCI (PCI 2.2 compliant)
- 1 x CNR
Rear Panel
- 2 x USB 2.0 ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN port
- 1 x LPT
- 2 x COM ports
- Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x MIC) connector
- PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse connector
- 1 x Game/Midi port
CPU/AGP/DIMM Settings
- CPU FSB / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
- AGP Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
- DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
Hardware Monitoring
- System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
- H/W detect and report power-in voltage, CPU voltage, and Fan speed.
Form Factor
- ATX
- 30.5cm x 24.4cm
Other Features
- GIGABYTE patented DualBIOS�
- IDE #1-#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP, CD-ROM and USB bootable.
- Suspend to RAM (STR)
- Supports USB KB / MS wake up from S3
Bundle Softwares
- Norton Internet Security
. Norton Anti Virus�
. Norton� Personal Firewall
. Norton� Privacy Control
. Norton� Parental Control
. Ad Blocking
- GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Adobe Acrobat e-Book Reader
- IAA (Intel� Application Accelerator)
- Direct X 8.1
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