Albatron PX845E Pro II Motherboard Review

Specifications

- Processor

Socket 478 Intel Pentium 4 Processor (Willamette/Northwood) 1.4GHz to 2.53GHz

Supports 400/533MHz FSB

- Chipset

Intel 845E/ICH4

Intel 82562ET LAN chip

Winbond Smart I/O W83637HF

Promise PDC20276 ATA 133 RAID Controller

- Memory

3 DDR Slots

DDR266/DDR200 unbuffered /none-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 2GB (DIMM1 1 bank+DIMM2,3 1 bank)

- Expansion Slots

1 x AGP 4X slot (Supports AGP card running at 1.5v only)

6 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)

1 x CNR slot (Optional)

- IDE Ports

2 ATA100/66 channels, up to four ATA 100 IDE devices

2 ATA133 RAID (0, 1) Channels, up to four ATA 133 IDE Hard Drives (Not supporting CD-ROM and ATAPI devices)

- Onboard I/O Connectors

1 x Floppy Connector

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 header

1 x 4 ports USB cable

1 x CD_IN header

1 x S/PDIF in/out header (S/PDIF in/out cable optional)

1 x CPU fan header with fan rotation detection function

2 x System fan headers ( 1 fan rotation detection function )

1 x 10 pin system panel header (Intel spec)

1 x Front audio header (Intel spec)

1 x IrDA header

1 x Case Open detection header

1 x Wake on LAN

- I/O via Back Panel

PS/2 keyboard/mouse

2 x USB(2.0/1.1)

1 x RJ45

2 x Com(serial)

1 x Parallel 1x Game/Line-in/Lin-out/Mic-in

- Power

20-pin ATX power connector, 4-pin ATX 12V power connector

BIOS Features 3Mb 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

2FAN sensors, CPU/System voltages and temperature monitoring

- Special Features

BIOS Mirror™ Protect BIOS by creating an original mirror image of itself

Voice Genie™ Voice Troubleshooting system (4 languages)

Zero Jumper Design

Adjustable CPU frequency by 1 MHz increment, Adjustable VCore, VAGP, VMemory

Watch Dog Timer (Automatic reset the system when system locks up)

- Form Factor

ATX (244mm x 305mm)