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Battle of the SiS 648 Budgets - MSI vs. Gigabyte vs. ECS

Author: Cameron Johnson SUMMARY: The Pentium 4 processor line has been with us for sometime now and has matured into quite the profitable making product for Intel after its rather shaky inception. Now we have the Top 3 chipset manufacturers creating chipset solutions for the processor. One which has begun to stand out in the crown is SiS with their solid 648 chipset. Today Cameron “Sov” Johnson presents us with a roundup of three budget motherboards based on this very chipset from MSI, Gigabyte and ECS!
Editor: Cameron Wilmot
Category: Motherboards
Published: 9th November 2002

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Specifications of the MSI 648 Max –L

CPU
Supports Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz ~ 2GHz mPGA 478 CPU Willamette
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz ~ 2.4GHz mPGA 478 Northwood (400FSB)
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz ~ 2.66GHz+ mPGA 478 Northwood (533FSB)
Supports Intel Celeron 1.7GHz+ mPGA 478 Willamette-128 (400FSB)

Chipset
SiS 648 AGPset
SiS 648 Northbridge
SiS 963 Southbridge
MuTILO Interconnect @ 1GB/s

Bus Frequency
100/133MHz Internal
400/533MHz External
Netburst Micro Architecture

Expansion Slots
1 AGP 4x, 8x
6 PCI

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
1 Game Port (VIA Expansion Bracket)

Special Features
BIOS overclocking control of FSB, voltages
Onboard Broadcom 10/100/1000 Networking








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