ABIT AG8 Motherboard

Last year, Intel unleashed their latest and greatest CPU innovation, the LGA775 (Socket T) Pentium 4. Although the original boards and chipsets were a "work in progress", ABIT, Asus and others have stepped up to unleash the power of Socket T Pentium 4! The ABIT AG8 is Abit's answer for performance gamers on a budget. With SATA RAID, Dual Channel DDR 400, PCI-Express X16, IEEE1394, Gigabit LAN, and ABIT Engineered µGuru, what more could you ask for? Let's take an indepth look at the AG8.

Specifications:

LGA775 CPU Socket
- Designed for Intel Prescott LGA775 processors with 800/533MHz FSB
- Supports Intel HT Technology

Express Chipset
- Intel 915P / Intel ICH6R Express Chipset
- Supports USB 2.0 (High Speed)

Flexible Memory
- Four 184-pin DIMM sockets (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM)
- Supports Dual channel DDR 400/333 (Max. 4GB)

PCI Express x16 graphics
- PCI Express x16 graphics delivers up to 8GB/s per direction for 3.5 times more bandwidth than AGP 8X at 2.1GB/s

PCI Express x1 I/O
- PCI Express x1 I/O offers 500MB/s concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133MB/s

SATA Matrix RAID
- Four ports SATA 150 RAID 0/1, deliver higher performance and data protection
- Supports SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug

6 Channel Audio
- On board Theater-class 6 Channels Audio
- Professional digital audio interface supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF In/Out

IEEE 1394
- Supports 3 Ports IEEE 1394 at 100/200/400 Mb/s transfer rate

Gigabit LAN
- On board GbE Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet

Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot
- 3 x PCI Express x1 slots
- 2 x PCI slots
- 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB
- 4 x SATA 150 Connectors
- 1 x Ultra ATA 100/66/33 Connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers
- 2 x IEEE 1394 headers
- 1 x FP-Audio header
- 1 x CD-IN

Back Panel I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 1 x Serial Port connector, 1 x Parallel Port connector
- 1 x S/PDIF IN/OUT
- 1 x Audio connector (Center/Subwoofer, Rear Surround)
- 1 x Audio connector (Line Out, Line-in, MIC-in)
- 2 x USB Connectors, 1 x IEEE1394 Connector
- 2 x USB Connectors, 1 x RJ-45 GbE LAN Connector

Miscellaneous
- ATX form factor (305 x 245 mm)

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