Albatron K8X800 Pro II Version 2.0 Motherboard Review
Author: Dean Nottis
Date: September 27, 2004
Supplied By: Albatron
Price: $130 USD
Introduction
Today 3DXtreme is proud to present our newest review, this time around we are taking a look at the latest Albatron motherboard based on the VIA K8T800 chipset, the K8X800 Pro II Version 2.0. Albatron has been producing some very attractive motherboards in recent months, combining affordable pricing with tons of features - they are definitely worth taking a second looking at. Albatron has lacked a bit with the features that may attract hardcore enthusiasts and over clockers but I assure you this time around they have made a few changes.
Let’s take a look at the official specifications of the K8X800 Pro II v2 then get right into the performance testing.
Specifications & Features
Features:
AMD Athlon 64 Processor
Socket 754 with FSB 800 MHz
3 DDR200/266/333/400 Memory Sockets
Built-in VIA Envy 24PT with 8 channel Audio Support
Marvell 1Gbits LAN
2 Serial ATA150 Channels, Serial ATA RAID 0,1
2 IEEE1394 Ports
2 ATA133 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE Devices
8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports (6 ports by optional cable)
BIOS Mirror - Voice Genie
Chipset
North Bridge : VIA K8T800
South Bridge : VIA VT8237
LAN Chip : Marvell MV8001
IEEE1394 Chip : VIA VT6307
Audio Chip : VIA VT1720 Evny 24PT
I/O Chip: Winbond Smart I/O W83697HF
Memory
3 * DDR Sockets: DDR200/266/333/400 NON-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 3GB
Expansion Slots
1 x AGP(3.0) 8X slot (1.5V only)
6 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)
IDE Connectors
2 ATA133 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE devices
Onboard I/O Connectors
1 x Floppy Connector
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 header (6 ports by optional cable)
2 x IEEE1394 header (2 ports IEEE1394 cable optional)
1 x CD_IN header
1 x S/PDIF in/out header (S/PDIF in/out cable optional)
1 x CPU fan header ( 1 fan rotation detection function)
2 x System fan headers ( 2 fan rotation detection function)
1 x 10 pin system panel header (Intel spec)
1 x 3 pin Power LED header
1 x Front audio header (Intel spec)
1 x IrDA header
1 x Case Open detection header
2 x 5 pin Com port header
2 x 8 pin Game Port header
BIOS Features
4Mb Flash EEPROM
Award BIOS with ACPI, DMI2.0, PnP, WfM2.0, Green Suspend to RAM (S3), Suspend to Disk (S4) Wake on keyboard/mouse, Wake on LAN/RTC Timer
Hardware Monitoring
3 FAN sensors, CPU/System voltages and temperature monitoring
Special Feature
Zero Jumper Design
BIOS Mirror - Protect BIOS by creating an original mirror image of itself
Voice Genie Voice Troubleshooting system ( four-Language )
Adjustable CPU frequency by 1 MHz increment, Adjustable Vcore, VAGP, VMemory for overclocking.
Watch Dog Timer (auto-reset system when it can not handle overclock configurations)
Special design for CPU Over Temperature Protection.( OTP )
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