I was back to cruising Newegg for a new 845PE Motherboard. I had been waiting with baited breath for the Granite Bay reviews, and it appears that GB is not as stellar as we all hoped. I have been unhappy with the 845PE selections...until now. All the the 845PE board were missing something: some were missing firewire, some missing SATA, some making IDE RAID impossible, some with too few USB ports. I think I have found the mother of all 845PE motherboards: The Abit IT7-MAX2 V2.0
Check out the SPECS on the board
Was just wondering if anyone has purchased this motherboard, and if it was stable and if there are any issues we should be aware about.
Thanks,
Steve Charles
It has everything:
Serial ATA
- On board 2-Channel Serial ATA interface of 150MB/sec
ATA 133 RAID
- High Point HPT374 IDE RAID controller
Media XP (Optional)
- Card Reader (Compact Flash/Secure Digital/Memory Stick)
- Audio, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 front panel
Audio
- 6-Channel AC 97 CODEC on board
USB 2.0
- Supports 10 Ports USB 2.0 at 480 Mb/sec transfer rate
IEEE 1394
- Supports 3 Ports IEEE 1394 at 400/200/100 Mb/s transfer rate
LAN
- On board RTL8100B 10/100M PCI Fast Ethernet Controller
System BIOS
- SoftMenu? Technology to set CPU parameters
- Supports Plug-and-Play (PNP)
- Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)
Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x AGP, 4 x PCI slots
- 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB
- 2 x Ultra DMA 100/66/33 Connectors
- 2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 Connectors (RAID)
- 2 x Serial ATA 150MB/s Connectors
- 1 x 6 Channel audio FPIO pin header (for Media XP)
- 2 x USB headers, 1 x IEEE 1394 header
- 1 x CD-IN, 1 x AUX-IN
Back Panel I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 mouse
- 4 x USB connectors
- 2 x IEEE 1394 connectors
- 1 x S/P DIF Out connector
- 1 x Audio connectors (Center/Sub, Surround Speaker)
- 1 x Audio connectors (Front Speaker, Line-in, Mic-in)
- 2 x USB, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector
Miscellaneous
- ATX form factor
- Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speeds, Voltages, CPU and System environment temperature
- Supports Wake Up by LAN, Modem Ring, RTC Alarm
- Supports Keyboard and Mouse Power On
- Supports STR (Suspend to RAM)
Check out the SPECS on the board
Was just wondering if anyone has purchased this motherboard, and if it was stable and if there are any issues we should be aware about.
Thanks,
Steve Charles
It has everything:
Serial ATA
- On board 2-Channel Serial ATA interface of 150MB/sec
ATA 133 RAID
- High Point HPT374 IDE RAID controller
Media XP (Optional)
- Card Reader (Compact Flash/Secure Digital/Memory Stick)
- Audio, USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 front panel
Audio
- 6-Channel AC 97 CODEC on board
USB 2.0
- Supports 10 Ports USB 2.0 at 480 Mb/sec transfer rate
IEEE 1394
- Supports 3 Ports IEEE 1394 at 400/200/100 Mb/s transfer rate
LAN
- On board RTL8100B 10/100M PCI Fast Ethernet Controller
System BIOS
- SoftMenu? Technology to set CPU parameters
- Supports Plug-and-Play (PNP)
- Supports Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)
Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x AGP, 4 x PCI slots
- 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB
- 2 x Ultra DMA 100/66/33 Connectors
- 2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 Connectors (RAID)
- 2 x Serial ATA 150MB/s Connectors
- 1 x 6 Channel audio FPIO pin header (for Media XP)
- 2 x USB headers, 1 x IEEE 1394 header
- 1 x CD-IN, 1 x AUX-IN
Back Panel I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 mouse
- 4 x USB connectors
- 2 x IEEE 1394 connectors
- 1 x S/P DIF Out connector
- 1 x Audio connectors (Center/Sub, Surround Speaker)
- 1 x Audio connectors (Front Speaker, Line-in, Mic-in)
- 2 x USB, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector
Miscellaneous
- ATX form factor
- Hardware monitoring - Including Fan speeds, Voltages, CPU and System environment temperature
- Supports Wake Up by LAN, Modem Ring, RTC Alarm
- Supports Keyboard and Mouse Power On
- Supports STR (Suspend to RAM)