Motherboard Features:
The board supports the following hardware:
CPU:
- Dual Pentium III Socket 370 Processors
- One FC-PGA/PPGA Celeron Processor
- 300-800MHz or higher processor with 66/100 MHz Front Side Bus
- 500-1000MHz Pentium III processor with 100/133 Front Side Bus.
- VIA Cyrix III Processor with 100/133MHz Front Side Bus.
Chipset:
- Intel 815EP chipset
Memory Support:
- Three DIMM sockets supporting up to 512MB 168 pin 3.3v SDRAM
Slots:
- 1 AGP 4X Slot
- 5 32 bit PCI Slots
- 1 CNR Slot
On board IDE:
- IDE controller supporting 33/66/100 modes
- Connects up to four IDE devices (first two channels)
On board peripherals
- 1 floppy port supporting 2FDD
- 2 Serial ports
- 4 USB ports
- 1 parallel port
Hardware Monitor Function
- CPU Fan Speed monitor
- System and CPU Temperature Monitor
- System Voltage Monitor
RAID
- Promise LITE RAID Controller
- Supports ATA/100 IDE RAID for channels 3 and 4
The board itself is laid out quite well. There is very good clearance around the sockets, the RAM slots are far enough away so as not to interfere with anything and generally everything is positioned pretty
well.
There are only 5 PCI slots, but for a file server its plenty. There is not much in the way of onboard components so 6 slots would have been nice.
As you can see from the picture below there are
4 IDE channels on the right side of the board. The 1st two are the regular IDE channels and the next two are the RAID channels.
There are 3 memory slots, unfortunately these will only support up to 512 MB's of
PC133 RAM. This is a limitation of the i815 chipset. This is perhaps the worst part about this board. I would love to be able to use more memory. For a simple file server that I'm using it for it will be adequate, but
for a workstation it would be lacking in some areas. Particularly if you were wanting to use it for intensive graphics work. As a server it would be totally inadequate.
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