Motherboard compatibility test
ASUS P5AD2 Premium
 |
Motherboard
specifications
| Revision |
1.02 |
| CPU | Single socket 775
Intel Pentium 4 |
| Chipset |
Intel 925X |
| Expansion
slots |
1 PCI Express (x16)
2 PCI Express (x1)
3 PCI |
| Storage |
South Bridge Intel ICH6R
1 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
4 x serial ATA
Silicon Image 3114R RAID
4 x serial ATA RAID
ITE IDE RAID
2 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE |
| I/O |
2 x Marvell Yukon-EC Gigabit
Ethernet controllers
C-Media High Definition Audio
controller |
| Front side
Bus |
533/800 MHz |
|
Test results
|
Tested configuration
| CPU |
Single Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled) |
| Front
Side Bus |
800 MHz |
| BIOS |
Award version 1004 Date: 07/05/2004 |
| Memory |
1 GB DDR2 RAM |
| Storage |
System drive on primary EIDE channel. A/V drive on serial ATA channel. |
| Software |
Matrox X.tools build 6122 with Hotfix 1 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 |
| Installed
expansion cards |
| PCI
1 |
MSI RX600XT-TD128 |
| PCI
2 |
— |
| PCI
3 |
Matrox RT.X |
| PCI
4 |
— |
| PCI
5 |
— |
| PCI
6 | — |
| Additional required software |
| We installed patches and drivers in the following order: |
| 1 |
Microsoft
Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Updates |
| 2 |
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility, version 6.0.1.1002 Date: 06/18/2004 |
| 3 |
Marvell Yukon-EC Gigabit Ethernet controller driver, version 7.14.1.3 Date: 06/20/2004
(downloaded from the ASUS web site) |
| 4 | ASUS WiFi-g Wireless STA, version 2.3.0.19 Date: 07/01/2004
(downloaded from the ASUS web site) | | 5 | IT8212 ATA RAID Controller driver and application, version 1.7.1.9 Date: 07/01/2004
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
| | 6 | Silicon Image Serial ATA IDE driver, version 1.0.0.7 Date: 07/01/2004
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
| | 7 | Matrox PCI Optimizer
|
| Comments | | • | The onboard C-Media High Definition Audio controller is not compatible for use with an RT.X system. | | • | Using the onboard ICH6R controller in a RAID configuration is not supported with RT.X. |
*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits |
For more information, see
http://www.asus.com.
The
information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to
this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that
the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any
particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of
testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our
tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS
versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance;
however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last
updated October 27, 2004.
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