SUMMARY: Gigabyte's line of motherboard in the past have been questionable and plagued with problems. Some people have had success with them, while others have had nothing but problems. In the last 6 months they have tried to improve their PR and success records to 100% and are doing a good job at it, by listening to what we really want. Today Cameron "Sov" Johnson takes a look at two new Pentium 4 motherboard solutions from Gigabyte - Namely the feature packed 8IEXP and the more value based 8IGX.
Bus Frequency 100/133MHz Internal 400/533MHz External Netburst Micro Architecture
Expansion Slots 1 AGP 4x (1.5v only) 6 PCI 1 CNR
Expansion Ports 1 PS2 Keyboard Port 1 PS2 Mouse Port 6 USB 2.0 Ports (2 rear accessible, 4 via expansion bracket) 2 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 3 Stereo Audio Ports 2 Digital Audio Ports (Via Expansion Bracket) 1 Game Port
Special Features BIOS overclocking control of FSB, Vcore, Vdimm, VAgp. Promise ATA-133 RAID Controller Onboard Intel 100PRO-VE NIC Smartcard and Memory Stick Controller VIA IEEE1394 Firewire Controller
Bus Frequency 100/133MHz Internal 400/533MHz External Netburst Micro Architecture
Expansion Slots 1 AGP 4x (1.5v only) 6 PCI 1 CNR
Expansion Ports 1 PS2 Keyboard Port 1 PS2 Mouse Port 6 USB 2.0 Ports (2 rear accessible, 4 via expansion bracket) 2 Serial Ports (1 via Expansion Bracket) 1 VGA Port 1 Parallel Port 5 Stereo Audio Ports (2 via expansion ports 2 Digital Audio Ports 1 Game Port
Special Features BIOS overclocking control of FSB, Vcore, Vdimm, Vagp Onboard Intel 100PRO-VE Networking Smartcard and Memory Stick Controller
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