SUMMARY: In the first of our AMD Athlon 64 Motherboard Head to Head articles we put the Albatron K8X800 Pro II up against the EPoX 8HDA3 which are both based on VIA's K8T800 chipset with the VT8237 Southbridge.
AMD Athlon 64 Processor Socket 754 with FSB 800 MHz 3 DDR200/266/333/400 Memory Sockets Built-in VIA Envy 24PT with 8 channel Audio Support (Bundle SPDIF2 Card Optional) 3Com 1Gbits LAN 2 Serial ATA150 Channels, Serial ATA RAID 0,1 2 IEEE1394 Ports 2 ATA133 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE Devices 8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports (6 ports by optional cable) BIOS Mirror Voice Genie
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 Processor
FSB
800 MHz
Chipset
North Bridge : VIA K8T800 South Bridge : VIA VT8237 LAN Chip : 3Com 3C940 IEEE1394 Chip : VIA VT6307 Audio Chip : VIA VT1720 Evny 24PT I/O Chip: Winbond Smart I/O W83697HF
Memory
3 * DDR Sockets: DDR200/266/333/400 NON-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 3GB
Expansion Slots
1 x AGP(3.0) 8X slot (1.5V only) 6 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)
IDE Connectors
2 ATA133/100/66 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133/100/66 IDE devices 2 Serial ATA150 Channels, up to 2 Serial ATA150 Hard Drives
Onboard I/O Connectors
1 x Floppy Connector 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 header (6 ports by optional cable) 2 x IEEE1394 header (2 ports IEEE1394 cable optional) 1 x CD_IN header 1 x S/PDIF in/out header (S/PDIF in/out cable optional) 1 x CPU fan header ( 1 fan rotation detection function ) 2 x System fan headers ( 2 fan rotation detection function ) 1 x 10 pin system panel header (Intel spec) 1 x 3 pin Power LED header 1 x Front audio header (Intel spec) 1 x IrDA header 1 x Case Open detection header 2 x 5 pin Com port header 2 x 8 pin Game Port header
I/O via Back Panel
PS/2 keyboard/mouse, 2 x USB(2.0/1.1), RJ45,1 x Com(serial), 1 x Parallel,1x Line-in/Line-out(Speaker Out)/MIC/SUR_CEN/SUR/R:WOF,L:CEN
Power
20-pin ATX power connector, 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
BIOS Feature
4Mb Flash EEPROM Award BIOS with ACPI, DMI2.0, PnP, WfM2.0, Green Suspend to RAM (S3), Suspend to Disk (S4) Wake on keyboard/mouse, Wake on LAN/RTC Timer
Hardware Monitoring
3 FAN sensors, CPU/System voltages and temperature monitoring
Special Feature
Zero Jumper Design BIOS Mirror Protect BIOS by creating an original mirror image of itself Voice Genie Voice Troubleshooting system ( four-Language ) Adjustable CPU frequency by 1 MHz increment, Adjustable Vcore, VAGP, VMemory for overclocking. Watch Dog Timer (auto-reset system when it can not handle overclock configurations) Special design for CPU Over Temperature Protection.( OTP )
