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The Ultimate P4 motherboard! Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Ultra

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GetInMyFatBelly

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Seems to include it all, including ECC, 800MHz FSB, Intel Gigabit LAN, 6 phase Dual Power, and...

"Integrated Adaptec Ultra SCSI 320"

WooHoo, bring the Canterwood (875) motherboard on!

pics available in a couple of the Cebit 2003 reviews, don't have any on hand, please post for others if you find them.
 
I'm guessing at least $400. The ASUS P4P800 without SCSI is $300 (just posted on Atacom.com, don't know if it's in stock though).
 
Well, supposedly, anandtech has a full review of this board, but they have not linked to it because they were having server problems at the time of completion/posting.
 
Sure it has 6 RAM slots - but the chipset only supports 8 DRAM side. Anyone feel like mixing single sided and double sided dimms on a boards that is going to be MORE expensive than the 8INXP? I think they went a bit overboard with the specs on this board.

I would like to see a Canterwood Legacy Free board similar to the IT7-MAX version 1 board - get rid of the Floppy, Parallel and only have one serial port. Include a USB Thumb Drive and boot utility for it. Back Panel to have digital sound output only - have a dual sound output on the motherboard to an expansion slot or front panel for analog sound. Include 1394 on back panel and header for front panel.

Who needs SCSI with WD360 drives available 😉.
 
Get rid of floppy? You must not do any linux installs. The floppy is still a great tool. I don't have to burn CD's every time a new version of my linux distro is out. I just download the .iso's, share them out on a NFS share system, and do a network install to every other system that I want to install it on. I only need to bring 2 boot floppies around which don't even need to stay in the system during the install. No changing CD's, no verifying if the CD is good. I can be installing several dozen systems at the same time with only 2 floppies while everyone else would need aprox 36 CD's and need to be running around trying to keep up swapping the CD's when the installer asks for the next disk. KEEP the floppy! Now the parrellel port has is a good candidate to get rid of, but the serial port is still used by WAY too many devices to be removed (think network gear, IR gear, interconnect to other digital devices gear...i.e. robots and robot processors). When there is an alternative that actually does everything that the current systems use with support for similar software and have that software available to the public, then you can get rid of the serial port as well.
 
If you actually read my post 😉 .....

I said to include one serial port(till everything works with USB at least) and to include a bootable USB thumb drive - 875P provides this as a bootable option and it can be used as a key chain - safer than lugging a couple of 3-1/2 inch floppies around...

I don't see why this wouldn't be doable and cheaper than many existing mobos. AS it is the four layer process should make the 875's cheaper than GB's in a hurry.

 
Originally posted by: smahoney
Sure it has 6 RAM slots - but the chipset only supports 8 DRAM side. Anyone feel like mixing single sided and double sided dimms on a boards that is going to be MORE expensive than the 8INXP? I think they went a bit overboard with the specs on this board. ...
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That's what I concluded too after getting excited about running 6 x 512. Until I read stress testing in today's KNXP review.


Certainly six DIMM slots is a lot, but apparently operating at CAS2/2T/6T/2T in dual DDR333 mode with all of these slots filled isn't a big deal for the 8KNXP Ultra, and is without a doubt an impressive feat. Since the 875P chipset supports up to 4GB of memory and the 8KNXP Ultra has six DIMM slots, you'll be able to save cash on memory. That is, instead of buying four 1GB memory modules that are about four times as expensive as 512MB modules like you would be forced to do with desktop motherboards that only support four DIMM slots, you have the luxury of buying four 512MB modules and just two 1GB modules. Of course, unless you have applications that can use this much memory, there's no advantage to having six DIMM slots expect to say that they are all functional up to 400MHz.
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The Gigabyte board looks like a technicolor circus freak show! All those crazy colors.

Gota cost over $400 easily with all those options on it.
 
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