I would like to have one overall retro motherboard for Pentium 4 socket 478 CPUs, and I was thinking about choosing i865PE chipset, mainly because of 'masked' PAT, dualchannel, Sata, integrated USB 2.0. Users with mid tower ATX cases won't notice any problems.Hello. Peeve than anything else, for users with large cases like the HX08 it willīe noticeable. The IDE connectors are in the ideal location, next to the DIMM slots, not getting in way of anything else, however, the floppy connector is in one of the worst possible areas in my personal opinion, at The larger guys have easier times with these things though. Motherboards with the i845-D should only have two DIMM slots. It's not really the fault of DFI, rather Intel's own regulations state that The NB70-SC only has two DIMM slots, however USB 1.1 ports - two on the board and two on a riser card. NB70 has Ultra100 hard drive support for up to four IDE devices. Numbered, as the 64bit PCI slots are just around the corner. I expect the days of this southbridge are 1-1/2 years ago.Įternity in computer time, but that also means it is proven, and realistically peripheral technology Of passive cooling heatsink with thermal interface material to boot.Ĩ2801 ICH2 (I/O Controller Hub 2) has been around for quite some time now,ĭebuting when the i810E and i815E chipsets came out approx. It looksĪ lot like a Pentium III and uses its own special type As youĬan see, the i845-D uses flip chip technology too. Intel says it's the new stepping that allows DDR capability. Only until recently was Intel allowed have it's ownĬhipset use DDR because of licensing agreements with Rambus Inc. That is the way it seems sometimes, but keep in mind, this is coming from aĮxact same chipset as the the original i845, however DDR was 'disabled'įor legal reasons. Intel side most motherboards still don't seem to have that. In fact, it's basically a standard feature. You look at AMD based motherboards most of them have IDE RAID included (or You know it is funny to see how trends work out. The NB70 also has onboard audio care of the VIA'sĪC'97 codec which isn't the very best, but it will be fine with most But heck, it is a motherboard and not a car! StandardĮquipment is two DIMM slots for a maximum of 2GB PC1600/PC2100 DDR RAM, oneĤx AGP, five PCI's and one CNR slot so the system is pretty expandable. Red and black coloured boards we have been seeing so much With the rather plain brown PCB, the NB70-SC looks quite drab in the face of the We'll be looking at DFI's NB70-SC motherboard based on the i845-D Longer have to put up with lousy performance to save some money. Now with P4 DDR chipsets coming from every corner,įrom Intel's own i845-D to SiS's 645 and VIA's unlicensed P4X266, users no

Little did they know that pairing a Pentium 4 with SDRAM would severely hamper the Finally, a chipset that allowed SDRAM compatibility and broke Large OEM's and computer retailers hailed the original i845 chipset as a

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