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Title : Gigabyte P4 Titan GA-8TRX330-L
Author : Alan McCloskey
Date : Monday, November 01, 2004
Vendor : Gigabyte


Introduction

When it comes to system performance, one of the most crucial aspects is the chipset. These processors coordinate traffic between the main CPU, memory and peripheral devices like your video and sound card. Intel has always been the chipset performance leader for their own Pentium processors, as other chipset vendors either lacked performance or were plagued with bugs. nVidia, primarily known for their video chips, pioneered new technologies into their nForce chipset, which was exclusively made for AMD’s Athlon processors. Intel countered by introducing a dual-channel memory controller for Pentium 4 processors, which now achieve over 5 gigabytes a second of memory bandwidth!


Now another well-known graphics card maker is making motherboard chipsets, this time it’s ATI with their RX330 chipset for Socket 478 (Pentium 4) processors. The board features 4 DIMM slots for memory, and are dual-channel, an AGP 8x slot, 5 PCI slots, and a Realtek 100Mbit Ethernet controller. Serial ATA-150 support is provided by ATI’s own SB300 I/O controller. The new RX330 offers no integrated graphics core as one might anticipate, as do some nForce motherboards.

Board Features
CPUSocket 478
FSB800/533/400
ChipsetATI RX330
MemoryDDR 400/333/266
Memory socket4x DDR
Max memory4 GB
Graphics interfaceAGP 8x/4x
PCI slots5
Raid functionYes
LANRealtek 8100C
AudioRealtek AC97 (ALC655)
IDE2x Serial ATA, 2x ATA133
USB 2.08 (4 on MB, 4 by extension)
Serial ATA2x ATA-150 ports
Parallel port1x parallel port
serial port1x RS-232 serial port
audio ports3x configurable analog jacks
1x SPDIF jack by cable
front audio connector pins
fan headers2x fan headers
Size30.5 x 24.4 cm

Gigabyte is the first manufacturer maker to provide a mainboard based on ATI chipsets. This chipset is targeted to compete directly at Intel’s 865PE chipset, and offers similar features to its rival: hyper-threading technology, dual-channel DDR400, 800MHz FSB, 8x AGP and USB 2.0. Let’s take her out for a test drive…

RX330 chipset features
Up to 800 MHz CPU FSB for Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor
Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading™ processors
In-Order Queue (IOQ) depth of 12
Supports Dynamic Bus Inversion (DBI)
Supports system bus interrupt delivery
Integrated master clock generator with spread spectrum support
AGP 3.0 compliant AGP 8X interface with Fast Write support
266MB/second point-to-point interface to ATI IXP in A-Link mode
Dual channel 128-bit DDR SDRAM memory interface
DDR400 SDRAM support provides up to 6.4 GB/second bandwidth
Up to 4 GB DRAM support with two unbuffered DIMMs
Up to 8 USB2.0 ports
Up to 2 SATA ports
Two independent IDE channels with support of mode 0 to 4, and ATA 100
Supports LPC based Super I/O
Integrated Ethernet controller
Support for Microsoft Windows® XP, Windows® 2000 and Linux
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