Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra i875 Canterwood Review (1)
Overclocker 22 Apr 2003

Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra i875 Canterwood

Gigabyte as one the 1st tier manufacturer is always pushing ahead with new innovative product design to entice the consumers. As we have seen from previous Gigabyte board reviews, their boards have adopted revitalised the RD to come out with the DPS and other important features that Gigabyte was never into.

Today, we review the Gigabyte 8KNXP, a new product based on the latest Intel i875 Canterwood chipset. The 8KNXP Ultra is the higher end series of the 8KNXP. 8KNXP Ultra is probably the first board or the only one to date to equipped with a Ultra Wide SCSI 320. Not only does it bring SCSI on board, it comes with ICH5R which supports 2 SATA devices to operate in RAID 0. It is also equipped with a ITe GigaRAID controller for IDE RAID.  Another major difference from the other board manufacturers is that it split one of the channels into 2 DIMMs making it the first board to have 6 DIMMs. This does not mean it can support 6GB, rather it can support more RAM combinations according to Gigabyte. 8KNXP comes with other features like Gigabit Ethernet, ALC655 sound chipset for auto sense of connectors etc.

Detail Specs

GA-8KNXP Ultra

Intel 875P chipset

Processor

• Socket 478 for Pentium 4 Processor

Chipset

• Intel^® 875P MCH
   
• Intel^®82801ER
   
• Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI chip
   
• Intel^® 82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller
   
• GigaRAID controller chip
   
• Super I/O: ITE I/O IT8712F chip
   
• Realtek ALC655 CODEC
   
• 2 x 4M bit flash ROM
   

Front Side Bus

• 800 / 533 MHz FSB

Memory

• Type: Dual Channel DDR 400 / 333 ECC support
   
• Max capacity: 4 GB
   
• DIMM slots: 6
   

Internal I/O Connectors

• 1 x FDD
   
• 2 x Serial ATA
   
• 2 x SCSI connector
   
• 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE
   
• 2 x UDMA ATA 100/66 Bus Master IDE
   
• 2 x USB 2.0 (4 ports by cable with rear USB bracket)
   
• S/P DIF input/output (with rear bracket)
   
• 3 x cooling fan pin headers
   
• CD/AUX in
   
• 1 x COM port pin header
   
• 1 x Game port pin header
   

Expansion Slots

• 1 x AGP Pro slot
   
• 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)
   
• 1 x DPS slot
   

Rear Panel I/O

• 4 x USB 2.0 ports
   
• 1 x RJ45 LAN port
   
• 1 x LPT port
   
• 1 x COM port
   
• Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x MIC) ports
   
• PS/2 (Keyboard/Mouse) ports
   

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting

• CPU FSB / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
   
• AGP Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
   
• DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
   

Form Factor

• ATX
   
• 30.5cm x 24.4cm
   

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