SUMMARY: Abit are known for their long line of quality motherboards which are positioned right toward the enthusiast user and have continued to show the industry the way with their MAX series of motherboards which are virtually legacy free. With the release of the Intel 845E chipset, Abit has released the Abit BD7II motherboard - Will the enthusiast trend continue and does the limiting DDR-266 support of the 845E chipset restrict the boards performance against competing chipsets from other manufacturers? Read on as Asher "Acid" Moses tells us where he compares the board to the SiS 645DX chipset and the older Intel 845D chipset.
Supports Intel Pentium® 4 Socket478 processor 400/533MHz System Data Bus
- Chipset
Intel 845E (ICH4) chipset Supports AGP 4X 1.5V device only Supports Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB v2.0) Supports Dual Ultra ATA 100/66/33 channels supporting 4 devices
- Ultra DMA 133/RAID
High Point HPT372 IDE Controller Ultra DMA 133MB/sec data transfer rate RAID0 (Stripping mode for boosting performance) RAID1 (Mirroring mode for data security) RAID 0+1 (Stripping and Mirroring)
- Memory
Supports Three 184 pin DDR DIMM module Supports up to 2GB MAX Supports PC1600 and PC2100
- Audio
AC'97 Digital Audio controller integrated 2 channel audio driver included AC'97 Audio CODEC on board
- System BIOS SOFT MENUTM III Technology Award Plug and Play BIOS supports APM and ACPI Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS
- Multi I/O Functions
2 Channels Bus Master IDE Ports support Ultra DMA 33/66/100 2 Channels Bus Master IDE Ports support Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 for RAID 0/1/0+1 PS/2 Keyboard and PS/2 Mouse Connectors 1 Floppy Port (up to 2.88MB) 1 Parallel Port (EPP/ECP) 2 Serials Ports 2 USB 2.0 Connectors Audio connector (Line-in, Line-out, MIC-in, and Game Port )
- LAN
On board RTL8100B single chip Ethernet controller with power management 10/100Mb Operation Supports ACPI & Wake on LAN Supports Full Duplex Flow Control (IEEE 802.3x) and compliant to PCI Revision 2.2
- Miscellaneous
ATX form factor 1 AGP4X slot,5 PCI slots Hardware Monitoring ? Including Fan speed, Voltages, CPU and System temperature and one thermal header for other devices temperature monitoring Keyboard and Mouse Power On
