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Gigabyte GA-8VT880 Ultra – Retail VIA Pentium 4 Dual Channel
Author: Cameron Johnson SUMMARY: We have the Intel Prescott supported Gigabyte GA-8VT880 Ultra motherboard under the spotlight today. It is based on VIA's PT880 Dual Channel chipset for the Intel Pentium 4 line of processors. We compare it against Intel's Canterwood chipset.
Editor: Cameron Wilmot
Category: Motherboards
Published: 20th April 2004
Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Our Rating: 7.5 out of 10

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Specifications of the 8VT880 Ultra

CPU
Supports Intel Pentium 4 1.4GHz ~ 2GHz mPGA 478 CPU Willamette
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.0GHz ~ 2.8GHz mPGA 478 Northwood (400FSB)
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.2GHz ~ 3.06GHz mPGA 478 Northwood (533FSB)
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.4CGHz ~ 3.2CGhz mPGA 478 Northwood (800FSB)
Supports Intel Pentium 4 2.8EGhz ~ 3.4Ghz mPGA 478 Prescott (800FSB)
Supports Intel Celeron 1.7GHz ~ 2.9Ghz mPGA 478 (400FSB)

Chipset
VIA PT880 With HT
PT880 Northbridge
VT8237 Southbridge
VIA V-Link @ 533MB/s

Bus Frequency
100/133/200MHz Internal
400/533/800MHz External
Netburst Micro Architecture

Expansion Slots
1 AGP 4x
5 PCI

Expansion Ports
1 PS2 Keyboard Port
1 PS2 Mouse Port
8 USB 2.0 Ports (4 rear accessible, 4 via expansion bracket)
2 Firewire Ports (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 Realtek Gigabit Networking
Firewire
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