New i845G Based Mainboard from ASUS

by Anton Shilov
08/22/2002 | 08:33 PM

Among all i845-family based mainboards from ASUS, P4B533-E with RAID, Firewire, LAN & USB2.0 support has been the flagman for quite a long time already. For the real computer-hardware geeks, its features are already not enough and that is why one of the biggest Taiwanese manufacturers has decided to launch another high-end Socket 478 board. From now, the top-end DDR SDRAM supporting Socket 478 mainboard in ASUS’ line of products will be P4B533-VT based on i845G and offering all the latest features for the real enthusiasts.

Here are the brief specifications of the product:

• Supports Socket 478 Pentium 4 processors with 400/533MHz FSB;
• Intel 845G (with integrated graphics-core) + ICH4 core-logic;
• 3 DIMM slots for up to 2GB of PC1600 or PC2100 DDR SDRAM. ASUS promises that they will enable unofficial support for PC2700 memory;
• 6 PCI and 1 AGP 4x slot;
• 2-channel ATA-100 controller in addition to 2-channel ATA-133 RAID controller from Promise;
• 2 Serial ATA devices supported;
• 6 USB 2.0 ports;
• 10/100/1000Mbit/s Ethernet adapter from Broadcom;
• Ń-Media 9739 6-channel audio solution;
• ATX Form Factor;
• SerialATA – ParallelATA converter is supplied with this mainboard;
• Among the traditionally rich software bundle from ASUS, we must mention WinDVD, WinCoder, WinRip and WinProducer from InterVideo;

Quite an impressive device is on the route to the stores near you. The cost of the novelty is going to be about $170. What about Bluetooth and WLAN supporting product?