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Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G Motherboard

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A good motherboard supporting multiple standards
by dwkemp ,Oct 01 '04
Pros: Multiple standards, Q-Flash, well organised motherboard, tweeking for overclockers, Intel chipset.
Cons: BIOS could still be improved, more included?
Running with Debian Linux Sarge for the past week and have had no instability problems.
The board supports many standards:
- PCI(5), AGP 4x/8x, Serial(2), Parallel(1)
- Gigabit LAN
- Upto 8 channel audio, SPDIF (IO)
- Intel P4 Socket 478, HT support, 400,533 or 800 FSB.
- Dual memory bus DDR400 and also DDR266 and DDR333.
- Floppy(1), IDE(2) UDMA33/ATA66/ATA100, SATA 150MB/s(2)
In fact I selected this board because it could support
some of my "older" hardware as well as newer ones.
Q-Flash allows direct upgrade from floppy of the BIOS which
is nice. However new BIOS downloads are now windows .EXE files, but work fine it you run them under WINE.
Most of my cons are around the BIOS: .EXE upgrades for BIOS; latest BIOS F5 doesn't seem to detect ATA66/100 correctly; BIOS only shows "OK" for sensors, not the actual values, yet they are available; Can't see any option for full memory test.
Could have maybe included more in box: 8 channel audio kit, SPDIF output kit.
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