Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo-A Review Topic:
Motherboards GA-8I915P
Duo-A Provided by: Gigabyte
Introduction
The Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo-A is the first Grantsdale board we have had a chance to look at and from what we have seen so far we like it. This board is not intended as their top-of-line LGA 775 board for that you will need to look at the GA-8GPNXP Duo or GA-8ANXP-D. But what the GA-8I915P Duo-A does offer is a very nice motherboard for someone that is wanting to see if LGA 775 Intel processor is the route they want to go. The board offers both DDR Dual Channel 400/333 and DDR2 533/400 support up so you will not need to immediately spend you money for DDR2 memory until you have made up your mind. But be advices if you want to experience the full speed and power of this motherboard it is recommended that you use DDR2 memory.
Inside the package, you'll find the following items
The Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo-A motherboard
Two-port USB 2.0 bracket
Two SATA cables
One Ultra ATA-100 IDE cable
One Floppy disk drive cable
One 4-pin Molex power to 2x SATA power converter
Rear ATX I/O panel
Driver and Utilities CD
Motherboard user manual
GigaRAID user manual
Specifications
Processor
LGA 775 for Pentium® 4 Processor
Chipset
Northbridge : Intel® 915P
Southbridge : Intel® ICH6 Integrated Peripherals Broadcom PCIe X1 Gigabit Ethernet controller
Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
C-Media 9880 audio codec
VIA VT6410 RAID controller
Front Side Bus
Memory
Type: Dual Channel DDR2 533/400 Dual Channel DDR 400/333 Max capacity: 4 GB
DIMM slots: 4
Internal I/O Connectors
4 x Serial ATA connectors
2 x USB 2.0 connectors (4 ports by cable)
1 x FDD connector
1 x UltraDMA 100/66 IDE
2 x UltraDMA 133 IDE
1 x COM B connector
3 x cooling fan pin headers
1 x CD in
1 x 24-pin ATX Power connector
1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
Expansion Slots
1 x Gear slot
1 x PCIe X 16 slot
2 x PCIe X 1 slots
2 x PCI slots
Form Factor
H/W Monitoring
ITE 8712F
System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, power-in voltage, CPU voltage, and fan speed.
BIOS
Other Features
C.I.A. 2 (CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2) M.I.B. 2 (Memory Intelligent Booster 2)
EasyTune™ 5
M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker)
Download Center
S.O.S. (System Overclock Saver)
C.O.M. (Corporate Online Management)
Miracle of Xpress3
Bundle Software
Norton Anti Virus™
Norton™ Personal Firewall Norton™ Privacy Control
Norton™ Parental Control
Norton™ Spam Alert
GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Features
CPU w Supports the latest
Intel® Pentium® 4 LGA775 CPU Supports 800/533MHz FSB L2 cache varies with CPU Chipset w Northbridge: Intel®
915P Express Chipset Southbridge: Intel® ICH6 /ICH6R Memory w 2 DDR DIMM memory
slots (supports up to 4GB memory) (Note 1) Supports 2.5V DDR DIMM Supports dual channel DDR
400/333 DIMM 2 DDR II DIMM memory slots
(supports up to 4GB memory) (Note 1) Supports 1.8V DDR II DIMM Supports dual channel DDR
II 533/400 DIMM Slots w 1 PCI Express x 16
slot 2 PCI Express x 1 slots 2 PCI slots 1 G.E.A.R. slot IDE Connections w 1 IDE connection
(UDMA 33/ATA 66/ATA 100), allows connection of 2 IDE devices(IDE1) 2 IDE connection (UDMA 33/ATA
66/ATA 100/ATA 133), compatible with RAID, allows connection of
4 IDE devices(IDE2,IDE3) FDD Connections w 1 FDD connection,
allows connection of 2 FDD devices Onboard SATA w 4 Serial ATA
connections Peripherals w 1 parallel port
supporting Normal/EPP/ECP mode 1 Serial port (COMA) 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (rear
x 4, front x 4 via cable) 3 IEEE1394 ports (requires
cable) 1 front audio connector 1 IR connector1 PS/2 keyboard
port 1 PS/2 mouse port Onboard LAN w Onboard Broadcom
5751 chip (10/100/1000 Mbit) 2 RJ 45 port--LAN1 / LAN2 Onboard Audio w C-Media 9880
CODEC (UAJ) Supports Jack Sensing function Supports 2 / 4 / 5.1 / 7.1
channel audio Supports Line In ; Line Out
; MIC ; Back Surround Speaker Out ; Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out
; Surround Speaker Out connection Supports SPDIF In/Out connection CD In
On-Board SATA RAID w Onboard
ICH6R chipset supports data striping (RAID
0) or mirroring (RAID 1) function supports JBOD function supports data transfer rate
of up 150 MB supports hot plugging function supports a maximum of 4 SATA
connections supported on the Win 2000/XP
operating systems On-Board IDE RAID w Built-in
VT6410 chipset (IDE2, IDE3) w Supports disk
striping (RAID 0) or disk mirroring (RAID 1) or striping + mirroring (RAID
0 + RAID 1) Supports JBOD function Supports concurrent dual ATA133
IDE controller operation Supports ATAPI mode for HDD Supports IDE bus master operation Supports ATA133/RAID mode
switch by BIOS Displays status and error
checking messages during boot-up Mirroring supports automatic
background rebuilds Features LBA and Extended
Interrupt 13 drive translation in controller onboard BIOS I/O Control w IT8712 Hardware Monitor w System
voltage detection CPU temperature detection CPU / System / Power fan speed
detection CPU warning temperature CPU / System / Power fan failure
warning CPU smart fan control BIOS w Use of licensed AWARD
BIOS Supports Dual BIOS /Q-Flash Additional Features w Supports
@BIOS Supports EasyTune Overclocking w Over Voltage
via BIOS (CPU/DDR/PCI-E) Over Clock via BIOS (CPU/DDR) Form Factor w ATX form factor;
30.5cm x 24.4cm
Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo-A
Specifications
Features
Layout
BIOS
Overclocking
Testing
Conclusion
