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ASUS P4T Motherboard Review
P4T Specs perAsus
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I've been looking for a good replacement board for my own
mission critical day to day use and this is it.
Originally reviewed on June
22nd, 2001
Well now... talk about building
a new board from the ground up! Man alive, I like this board.
Just to start off let me say that the very first thing I liked
about this board is the keyboard wakeup feature (something missing
since the Asus P5A mobo...). I like waking up in the morning
getting my coffee and tapping the keyboard as I walk by to start
up the 'ol bugger! Nice. Thanks Asus.
Anyway, the first thing you notice
is the layout of the board (duh, i know), but the CPU mounting
holes are turned 90' from other P4 boards. Asus supplies a new
metal and plastic insulation mounting apparatus to secure your
new board to your case if your case isn't already P4 mount compliant
(see P4
ready cases). See also FormFactors.org
and the P4 ATX12V
design guide.
This baby is the new generation
of motherboards that support the Intel P4 CPU. The P4. It supports
RDRAM, a 400MHz bus (nice), Intel 850 chipset, 4 USB ports, 5
PCI slots, 2 CNR (1 shared), 4 RIMM sockets for a total memory
size of 2GB! Momma Mia! Now for the new stuff... The guys at
Asus also have a new mounting technique for those who are attached
to their current computers cases. Bare in mind, you can keep
your case with this new mounting hardware, but you're going to
have to hand over some greenbacks for a new power supply cause
the requirement is a minimum 400watt puppy.
Overclockers; though I don't
spend ANY time overclocking my boards, this board would be a
delight for any would be hot-rodder to rev up the tach of this
baby.
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The Good:
- 400MHz Bus
- 4 USB
- Great fro Overclockers
- Stable as a rock
- PC Probe software.
- Windows
XP Ready!
The Bad:
- Expensive.
- Power Connector gets in the
way of 5" bay items.
--- Michael
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ASUS P4T
{click to enlarge}
This is my case.
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Benchmarks
Windows
XP ready!
Since June 21st, 2001 I've been
running Windows XP Beta 2 build 2481 with absolutely no complaints.
Well, maybe if my mouse wheel worked in ALL my programs, that
would be nice.
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