ASUS P4S800D-E SiS 655TX Mainboard Review (1) Overclocker 24 Nov 2003
ASUS P4S800D-E SiS
655TX Mainboard
ASUS P4S800D-E is the 2nd P4 board that
incorporates SiS's Dual Channel DDR400 chipset. The first was the ASUS P4SDX
which features the first generation 655 chipset. P4S800D-E skipped the 655FX
chipset and went straight to the 655TX chipset which offers better performance.
One of the most important advancements is the
Advanced HyperStreaming™ Engine which makes it
faster than the previous generations of SiS 655 chipsets.
We always thought that SiS boards are usually
featureless. You are wrong because the P4S800D-E has one of the most complete
solutions out there. It features almost everything you need including Gigabit
Ethernet, 4 SATA ports, 2 IDE channels, 1394, 8 x USB 2.0, AGP 8x, DC DDR400,
ADI 6 channel audio, S/PFDIF Out. There is also the optional Wi-Fi slot ready to
turn your board into a software access point.
On top of all these, it also supports the ASUS
own Ez Flash, CrashFree BIOS2 , Instant Music, Post Reporter, MyLogo2,
Multilanguage BIOS, Q-FAN and AI Overclocking. There are also overclocking
features for fine-tuning of voltage levels of CPU vcore, vdimm and vchipset.
Performance levels of this board is very good
and it is comparable to the Intel 875P and overclocked 865PE boards. Specs of
the chipset is below and gallery on the following page followed by the
benchmarks.
SiS655TX
Dual DDR400 Chipsets
Advanced HyperStreaming™
Engine
- SiS HyperStreming™ Technology, it makes streams of chipset data flow all over
the paths, Efficiently, Concurrently, Smoothly and Intelligently. Further more,
SiS655TX Advanced HyperStreaming™ Engine enhances the transfer rate on the path
from host block to memory controller block to achieve the target that can
improve whole system performance.
Host Interface
- Support Intel Pentium® 4 HT FSB 800 CPU
- Support Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
- Support 800/533/400MHz Front-Side Bus
High Performance Dual DDR Memory Controller
- Delivering up to 6.4GB/s Bandwidth
- Performance optimization auto-configurability with flexible granularity via
supporting the Dual 128x1 bit mode in symmetric DIMM types deployment, and the
Concurrent Dual 64x2 bit mode with flexible DIMM types support
- Up to 4 DIMMs of DDR400/DDR333
- Support Un-buffered DDR DIMM and up to 1GB per DIMM
- Suspend-to-RAM(STR)
Support AGP 8X Interface
- Support AGP 8X/4X Interface
- Support Enhancements of AGP Rev.3.5 Register Format
- Support Fast Write Transaction
MuTIOL® 1G Delivering 1GB/s Bandwidth
- Proprietary Interconnect between SiS655TX and SiS964
- Bi-Directional 16-bit Data Bus at 533MHz Operating Frequency
SiS 964 MuTIOL 1G Media I/O
MuTIOL® 1G Delivering 1GB/s
Bandwidth
- Proprietary Interconnect between SiS655TX and SiS964
- Bi-Directional 16-bit Data Bus at 533MHz Operating Frequency
USB 2.0/1.1 Host Controller
- One EHCI USB 2.0 Controller and three OHCI USB 1.1 Controllers
- Support Total 8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports
- Support USB 2.0 High-Speed Device @480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
Serial ATA Controller
- Two independent ports and flexible channel allocation
- Compliant with Serial ATA 1.0 Specification
- Support Ultra DMA 150
- Support RAID 0, RAID 1 and JBOD configuration
PCI 2.3 Specification Compliance
- Support up to 6 PCI Masters
Fast Ethernet/Home Networking Controller with MII Interface
- Support 10/100Mb Fast Ethernet or 1/10Mb HomePNA 2.0 with External PHY
Audio/Modem Controllers with AC'97 Interface
- AC'97 v2.3 Compliant
- Support 6 Channels of AC'97 Speakers Out and v.90 HSP Modem
Advanced Power Management
- ACPI 2.0 and APM 1.2 Compliant
Dual IDE Channels with Parallel ATA 133/100
LPC 1.1 Interface
Integrated RTC
Integrated Keyboard/PS2 Mouse Controller
