ECS 915P-A Retail Box Motherboard Intel Pentium 4 LGA775 socket with a 800MHz system bus. As Intel launched their LGA775 platform with the Alderwood and Grantsdale chipsets, they also embarked to revamp the Pentium 4 system with the latest technology such as DDR2 and PCI Express. This left many users who wanted to upgrade facing a dilemma of being unable to retain their old components. The Intel 915P-A chipset came as a respite since it is capable of supporting both DDR and DDR2, which we have seen in various configurations thus far in our shootout. However lacking an AGP bus, that still leaves problems for those loathing to part with their older, but perfectly capable graphics cards. In swoops, ECS with their innovative 915P-A motherboard aims to correct these upgrade woes.
Specifications:
| Cpu Support | - ECS 915P-A Ver.(1.1)
- Support for an Intel Pentium 4 processor in an LGA775 socket with a 800MHz system bus
- Support for an Intel Pentium 4 processor in an LGA775 socket with a 533/800MHz system bus
- Intel Hyper-Threading enabled
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| Chipset | - North Bridge: Intel 915P Express
- 533 / 800MHz front side bus
- PCI Express x16 graphics
- Digital Media Interface (DMI) with 2GB/s bandwidth
- South Bridge: Intel ICH6
- Intel High Definition Audio
- Supports up to eight USB 2.0 ports
- Supports four PCI Express x1 lanes
- Supports four SATA ports
- Single-channel Ultra ATA-100 IDE port
- Digital Media Interface (DMI) with 2GB/s bandwidth
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| Memory | - Dual channel memory architecture
- 2 x 184-pin DIMM sockets support max. 2GB DDR 333/400 non-ECC memory
- 2 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. 2GB DDR2 400/533 non-ECC memory
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| Storage | - Intel ICH6 South Bridge
- 1 x Ultra ATA 33/66/100 (data transfer rate up to 100MB/sec.)
- 4 x SATA (Serial ATA 1.5Gbps interface)
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| Audio | - Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia)
- C-Media CMI9880 8-channel audio CODEC
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| Networking | - Realtek RTL8110S-32 PCI Gigabit LAN
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| I/O Interface | - 1 x Floppy connector
- 1 x Ultra ATA IDE connectors
- 4 x SATA connectors
- 8 x USB 2.0 ports (4x rear, 4x header)
- 1 x RJ45 LAN port
- 1 x FP-Audio header
- 8-Channel Audio I/O ports
- 1 x CD-IN
- 1 x 9-pin serial port
- 1 x parallel port (SPP/EPP/ECP)
- 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
- 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
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| Expansion Slots | - 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
- 1 x AGP Express slot
- 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
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| Others | - Compatible with 20-pin ATX Power Connector (but 24-pin Power Connector recommended)
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| PCB | - ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.5cm)
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| BIOS | - 4Mbit flash memory, Award BIOS, Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Muli Boot, DMI
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