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Post to Slashdot- Supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 / Celeron processors with 400/533MHz FSB with 3.06GHz clock-speed and above;
- SiS655 chipset, including SiS963 South-Bridge;
- 4 DIMM slots for up to 4GB of PC2100, PC2700 (533MHz FSB) DDR-SDRAM and even DDR400 memory. Dual-channel memory bus support: the memory modules should be identical and installed in pairs.
- 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP 8x slot;
- 2-channel ATA-133/100/66/33 integrated controller;
- 2 Serial ATA-150 ports (controller from High Point);
- ATA-133 RAID controller from Promise;
- 6 USB 2.0 ports;
- FireWire (IEEE1394) support;
- 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet adapter from Realtek (1Gb/s LAN - optional);
- 6-channel AC’97 audio solution;
- Lots of additional functions, including the latest introduced by Gigabyte Technology;
- Overclocking functions,
- ATX Form Factor.
There is no word about price and availability, but it seems that the GA-8SQ800 will not be very cheap because according to this picture it utilises 6-layer PCB (when 2 memory channels are implemented on a 4-layer PCB, a pair of memory slots are perpendicular to another pair) and should be a bit more expensive compared to another offerings on the same chipset but made using 4-layer PCB (see this news-story).
Keep in mind that current revision of the SiS655 does not support the Hyper-Threading technology and there is no official word about its support in future revisions (see this news-story). All in all, if you happen to purchase a SiS655-based mainboard, keep your eyes open and be informed.
PS. Pay attention to the fact that now Gigabyte adds “800” suffix to the brand-names of its mainboard, while on the previous lineup they used “667” suffix, alluding the 667MHz Quad Pumped Bus support (see this news-story). Do they want to say that now mainboards from Gigabyte are able to work with the upcoming Pentium 4 CPUs with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus?
