SUMMARY: AMD Athlon 64 has taken most of the spotlight over the past month but we shouldn't forget about Intel Pentium 4. One such motherboard to support it is ABIT's IC7 MAX3, which takes the Canterwood chipset to the MAX.
Supports Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 processors with 800/533 MHz Front Side Bus Supports Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Chipset
Intel 875P / ICH5 RAID Support Intel CSA Gigabit LAN Supports Dual Channel DDR 400 with ECC function Supports Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT) function Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
Memory
Four 184-pin DIMM sockets Supports 4 DIMM Dual DDR 400 memory.(Max. 4GB) Supports configurable ECC function
AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP PRO 8X/4X (0.8V/1.5V)
Gigabit LAN
On board Intel CSA Gigabit LAN
Dual SATA RAID
2 channel SATA 150MB/s data transfer rate with RAID function (0/1) via South Bridge 4 channel SATA 150MB/s data transfer rate with RAID function (0/1/0+1) via Silicon Image PCI Chip
Audio
6-Channel AC 97 CODEC on board Professional digital audio interface supports 24-bit S/P DIF optical In/Out
Supports IEEE 1394a at 100/200/400 Mb/s transfer rate
Internal I/O Connectors
1 x AGP, 5 x PCI slots 1x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB 2 x Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Connectors 6 x SATA 150 Connectors 2 x USB 2.0 headers, 2 x IEEE 1394a header 1 x CD-IN, 1 x AUX-IN
Back Panel I/O
1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 mouse 1 x S/PDIF Out connector, 1 x S/PDIF In connector 1 x Audio connectors (Front Speaker, Line-in, Mic-in) 1 x Audio connectors (Center/Sub, Surround Speaker) 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x IEEE 1394a 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector
Miscellaneous
ATX form factor Hardware monitoring – Including Fan speeds, Voltages, System environment temperature
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