After P4B266, ASUS developed one more mainboard based on the DDR chipset from Intel – i845D. It is P4B266-E boasting more advanced features than the predecessor. ASUS provided it with the integrated ATA/133 RAID controller built on Promise PDC20276 chip and changed the connectors location on the rear side of the mainboard having added an extra pair of USB ports. Here is this baby:

As a result, the specifications of ASUS P4B266-E look as follows. The boards is designed for Socket478 Pentium 4 processors, features 3 DIMM slots for up to 2GB PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM, an AGP 4x slot, 6 PCI and 1 CNR slot. Besides, there is an integrated ATA/133 IDE RAID controller from promise, as we have already said, 4 USB 1.1 ports, 4 USB 2.0 ports due to the integrated NEC controller, integrated C-media CMI8738 6-channel sound controller supporting S/PDIF, integrated LAN controller from Intel. The mainboard supports ASUS POST Reporter, ASUS MyLogo and ASUS EZ Plug technologies as well as Smart cards, SD cards and Memory Stick.
ASUS P4B266-E will begin shipping closer to the end of the month and will sell at around $170.