Motherboard compatibility test
ASUS P4P8X




Motherboard specifications

CPU Single socket 478
Pentium 4
Chipset Intel 865P
Expansion slots 5 PCI
1 AGP
Storage I/O Onboard Ultra DMA 100/66/33 EIDE controller
Onboard ADI AD1985 SoundMAX audio controller
Onboard 3Com Gigabit LAN PCI network controller
Onboard USB v2.0
Front side Bus 400/533 MHz


Test results

Tested configuration
CPU Single Pentium 4 3.06 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled)
Front Side Bus 533 MHz
BIOS AMI version 1009
Memory 512 MB DDR RAM
Storage System drive and CD-ROM drive on primary EIDE channel.
A/V drive on secondary EIDE channel.
Software Matrox X.tools build 5078 and Adobe Premiere Pro

Installed expansion cards
AGP Matrox Parhelia
PCI 1
PCI 2 Matrox RT.X
PCI 3
PCI 4
PCI 5

Additional required software
We installed patches and drivers in the following order:
1 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1, Windows XP Updates, and Driver Updates
2 Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility, version 5.00.2.1003 Date: 08/27/2003
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
3 Onboard 3Com Gigabit LAN PCI network controller, version 1.00.00.0044 Date: 06/30/2003
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
4 Onboard ADI AD1985 SoundMAX audio controller, version 5.12.01.3630 Date: 06/30/2003
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
5Matrox PCI Optimizer

Tested AGP display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*
Matrox Millennium G550 Version 5.91.008
Date: 08/29/2003
Yes Yes
Matrox Parhelia Version 1.04.03.005
Date: 07/31/2003
Yes Yes
ASUS GeForce 4 V8460 UltraVersion 44.03
Date: 05/14/2003
YesYes
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Version 6.14.10.6378
Date: 09/04/2003
Yes Yes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Version: Audigy 2 DriverPack 3
Date: 05/09/2003
4
Creative Sound Blaster Live! Revision 5.12.2.252
Date: 02/28/2003
4
Creative Sound Blaster Extigy Revision EXTG-WEBUP-W1-L7
Date: 07/09/2002
USB
Hercules Digifire 7.1 Version 6.09
Date: 02/28/2003
4
Onboard ADI AD1985 SoundMAX
audio controller
Version 5.12.01.3630
Date: 06/30/2003
Onboard


*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits



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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 January 23,2004.

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