With AMD’s Hammer (and corresponding motherboards) due sometime this quarter, we’ve decided to conclude our coverage of Intel’s 845PE chipset with a final individual motherboard review before the swarm of new motherboard and chipset technology (which includes Hammer and Springdale/Canterwood products) start arriving in the coming weeks/months.
Therefore, today we bring you our eighth individual 845PE motherboard review. The ABIT IT7 MAX2 V.2 is the new and improved version of the IT7 MAX2 V.1 (which was based on the now ancient 845E chipset, which officially supported no higher than DDR266 memory). See how the new and improved IT7 MAX2 stacks up against the competition, and why you might be able to throw in a shiny new Pentium 4 running at 800MHz FSB this year…
| Motherboard Specifications |
|
|
CPU
Interface |
Socket-478 |
|
Chipset |
Intel
82845PE MCH Intel 82801DB ICH |
|
Bus
Speeds |
up to 250MHz in 1MHz increments |
|
Core
Voltages Supported |
up
to 1.70V (in 0.025V increments) |
|
I/O
Voltages Supported |
N/A |
|
DRAM
Voltages Supported |
up
to 2.8V in 0.1V increments |
|
Memory
Slots |
3
184-pin DDR DIMM slots |
|
Expansion
Slots |
1
AGP 4X Slot 4 PCI Slots |
|
Onboard
RAID |
Highpoint
HPT374 Controller (two onboard RAID connectors) |
|
Onboard
USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 |
USB
2.0 Supported through South Bridge plus additional onboard USB 2.0 controller
(VIA VT6202) TI TSB43AB23 FireWire PHY |
|
Onboard
LAN |
Realtek
TRL8100B Controller |
|
Onboard
Audio |
Realtek
ALC650 Controller |
|
Onboard
Serial ATA |
Marvel
88i8030 (two onboard SATA connectors) |
|
BIOS
Revision |
11/28/2002 |
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Anonymous User - Friday, August 22, 2003 - link
The email address you gave for the Technical Support of IT7Max2 V2 is wrong. It should be technical@abit-usa.com and not technical@abit-use.com Thanks.