We managed to find some preliminary information about i875P (aka Canterwood) based mainboard from ASUSTeK Computer that will be available in April this year.

As we already told you a couple of days ago that Intel plans to launch its i875P core-logic and Pentium 4 3.0GHz processor with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus between the 14th and 28th of April (see February 27, 2003 news-story), hence, being one of the closest partners of Intel and also a manufacturer of Intel-branded mainboards (see December 12, 2002 news-story) ASUS will definitely be one of the first mainboard makers to offer its i875P-based device.

Here are some technical features of the upcoming ASUS P4C800 product:

• Supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 / Celeron processors with 400/533/800MHz Quad Pumped Bus with up to 3.60GHz clock-speed and above;
• Can take advantage of the CPUs with the Hyper-Threading technology enabled;
• i875P chipset, including Canterwood MCH and ICH5R I/O controller;
• 4 DIMM slots for up to 4GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 DDR SDRAM memory. Dual-channel memory bus support: the memory modules should be identical and installed in pairs;
• 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP Pro 8x slot;
• 2-channel ATA-100/66/33 integrated controller;
• Serial ATA-150/ATA-133 controller from Promise, supporting one Serial ATA port and one ATA-133 port.
• ICH5R apparently supports 2 Serial ATA-150 ports with RAID. Optionally ASUS can install another Promise controller to support another pair of Serial ATA-150 connectors.
• Up to 8 USB 2.0 ports;
• FireWire (IEEE1394) support;
• 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet adapter from Broadcom;
• Supports ASUS’ Wireless Kit for expansion;
• 6-channel audio solution;
• Lots of additional tuning functions, including technologies found on all present mainboards from ASUS;
• ATX Form Factor.

No information about pricing of the P4C800, but you can take a look at a picture of the product at this Japanese web-site.