BIOSTAR P4TCA Pro i875 Canterwood Review (1)
Bluetooth 13 May 2003

BIOSTAR P4TCA Pro

This is the first time we review a BIOSTAR board. In the past, we have heard BIOSTAR do manufacture some good boards but they focus on particular marktes. BIOSTAR is going to change that and goes international and they have sought us to review their latest BIOSTAR P4TCA Pro board which is feature packed.

The BIOSTAR P4TCA Pro is based on the 875P chipset (Canterwood) and is meant as a Workstation class mainboard. It supports the latest P4 processors with up to 4GB of DDR400 running in Dual Channel mode. Although we have seen many canterwood boards, they only offer optional wireless LAN. This board has it all integrated using a Wireless LAN 802.11b RTL 8180 chipset. 1394 and USB 2.0 are readily available on board. . This board uses the ICH5R, thus supports 2 channels of SATA RAID 0. On top of that you can also do an array of 4 HD in RAID 0/1/1+0 using the on board VIA VT6410 chipset.

The BIOS has some overclocking features which is quite basic but serves the purpose well. The package also includes a software WarpSpeeder which can be used to overclock the FSB of the system using software within Windows.

Detail Specifications

 

CPU	Intel Pentium 4 Socket 478 400/533/800Mhz
Chipset	Northbridge: 82875P MCH Southbridge: 82801ER ICH5R
FSB	400/533/800Mhz
Form Factor	244mm x 304mm, ATX Form Factor
Memory	4 x 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets Dual-Channel DDR 400/333 SDRAM  Memory with ECC Support Up to 4GB
Multiplier	Auto Detect
Expansion Slots	1 AGP Slot 5 PCI Slots 1 Wireless LAN slot
Fan Connectors	3 (1 CPU, 2 Chassis)
Onboard IDE/SCSI	IDE Channel : ATA100 x 2 VIA VT6410 IDE Channel  : ATA133 x 2 ICH5R SATA RAID Channel : SATA150 x 2
Integrated Components	Intel 82547EI Gigabit PCI LAN Chip RTL8180 Wireless LAN ITE IT8712F Super I/O CMedia 9739A AC'97 CODEC
Overclocking Voltage Adjustments	VCore up by 8.1%, 5.5%, 2.5% VDIMM 2.5 ~ 2.8
FSB Adjustments	100 ~ 255MHz

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