Iwill Announced 4 New Mainboards on i860, i850, i845 and ALi Aladdin P4

by Ilya Gavrichenkov
01/23/2002 | 07:47 AM

Today Iwill pursues an interesting marketing policy. First it makes no announcements whatsoever, and then they flood over our heads like from a horn of plenty. Such a flood happened today when four new products were introduced to the public:

• DP400 is a dual-processor Socket 603 mainboard based on Intel 860 chipset. It is intended for Xeon CPUs on Foster and Prestonia cores. The mainboard is equipped with four RIMM slots supporting up to 2GB RDRAM, two 64bit PCI slots, one AGP Pro and three 32bit PCI slots. Besides, it boasts an embedded i82550 LAN controller and AC’97 codec (Analog AD1881). The Spartan bunch of embedded stuff is sure to make DP400 a comparatively cheap Xeon board, which is now a rare thing to meet.
  
  Iwill DP400
  
• P4R is a four-layer Socket 478 mainboard based on i850 chipset. It sports an original design, four RIMM slots, one AGP 4x and five PCI slots. P4R is equipped with good many embedded controllers: sound C-media CMI8378 (a six-channel controller with S/PDIF out), Ethernet Realtek RTL8100B and ATA 100 RAID High-Point 370A controllers (this one supports RAID 0, 1 and 0+1). In order to meet the overclockers’ needs, Iwill enhanced this board with MicroStepping technology that allows adjusting the FSB frequency with an increment of 1MHz.
• P4D is a Socket 478 mainboard built on a DDR version of i845 chipset. Its specifications are as follows: 2 DDR DIMM, AGP 4x, 6 PCI, 4 USB, six-channel CMI 8738 sound controller, optional Realtek RTL8100B Ethernet controller, support for Smart Card Reader and two brand technologies - Smart Setting and MicroStepping.
• P4DA is a DDR333 mainboard for Socket 478. Pentium 4 CPUs based on ALi Aladdin P4 chipset (M1671). ALi seems to have kept its promise to start shipping Aladdin P4 this month. At least, P4DA is to start selling in the nearest future. This mainboard is equipped with three DDR DIMM slots supporting up to 3GB PC2700/PC2100 DDR SDRAM, one AGP 4x and five PCI slots. It supports ATA133 protocol and AC’97 sound. The BIOS of P4DA is provided with the brand Smart Setting and MicroStepping technologies.<%BANNER[article]%>
  
  Iwill P4DA