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THG reviews 19 i845D mobos

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Folks planning to buy a P4 DDR board based on the i845D chipset can have a look here . Decent conclusions given by THG. However I cannot understand why they left out the Asus board from the winners; it seems good, as per discussions over here 😕
 
Looks like they did include the ASUS board, just failed to break it out like the others. If you read the entire article you will see it. Start with this page and then go to the Features Table page and you will see the stats for the ASUS.
 


<< Looks like they did include the ASUS board, just failed to break it out like the others. If you read the entire article you will see it. Start with this page and then go to the Features Table page and you will see the stats for the ASUS. >>



What I meant was they left Asus from the Winners and decided upon Gigabyte, Abit and Soyo. The Asus board is an excellent performer. I'll edit my first message to remove the confusion..
 
Yeah Tom appears to be hitting the crack pipe pretty hard. He said that only the Abit motherboard allows a 66/33 AGP/PCI frequency at 133 MHz FSB. This is a crock! The ASUS board does this, I'm very sure the Soyo and MSI boards do this too (and others as well I suspect). It's just that Abit actually wrote that in as an actual feature. I don't think Tom actually tested these boards @ different FSB's, he just read their manuals. That would make sense (19 motherboards would take a ton of time and effort test @ 133 MHz FSB as well) however some of his info appers to be wrong as a result of this. The fact that he also failed to even mention the "EZ Plug" of the ASUS board baffles me. For anyone with an older power supply not looking to o/c too much or at all (most people) the EZ Plug is a great alternative to buying a whole new Power Supply with the P4 power connector. Apparently on-board RAID counts as more of a "feature" than chassis-intrusion detection, ECC support, EZ Plug, etc.

But I digress. He took 19 i845D mobos and listed their features, which is great for anyone looking to compare features on each company's motherboard. It's just that his assessment that the Abit is the only one which runs @ 133 MHz FSB in spec is wrong.
 
They also failed to test with the most recent bios updates for several of the boards. Most of the bios updates have cured several issues and improved the performance on many of these boards. It is getting hard to understand or even believe most of their reviews now. Also, why can they not test with Windows XP like everyone else? Most of the driver/bios development going on now is tuned for XP.
 
Despite it's obvbous ommisions it still wqas a good read and taken with a grain of salt should be helpful to those looking to buy a i845D Chipset motherboard. Hopefully Anand or someone else will get a little more into the deatials of how each over clocks and how well the features (such as USB 2.0) work with Win XP
 
The Asus is good board, but it has very few features. No LAN, RAID, ATA 133, etc. Anand, Sharky, Tom's, and Lost Circuits liked the MSI and Gigabyte. Show me a great reviews of the P4B266, I haven't found one. Before you give me a bunch of crap--I have one. It is a great overclocker but I had to disable the onboard sound to get it to work. Then I had to install a sound card, a drive controler card and a NIC. It has all the features of a $100 board, not a $160 one. I was disapointed🙁 R.
 
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