Motherboard compatibility test
AOpen AX4SPE Max
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Motherboard specifications
| CPU |
Single socket 478
Pentium 4 |
| Chipset |
Intel 865PE |
| Expansion slots |
6 PCI
1 AGP |
| Storage I/O |
Onboard Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN network controller
Onboard Realtek AC'97 CODEC
(ALC650) audio controller
Onboard ATA 33/66/100 EIDE controller
Onboard Serial ATA RAID controller
Onboard USB v2.0 |
| Front side Bus |
800 MHz |
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Important note
This motherboard has been tested with Windows XP Professional only. Although we expect results to be the same with Windows 2000, we cannot guarantee your results. Please note that Windows 98 and Windows Me are not supported with Matrox RT.X. |
Windows XP test results |
Tested configuration
| CPU |
Single Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled) |
| BIOS |
Phoenix Award version R1.02 Date: 07/02/2003 |
| Memory |
512 MB RAM |
| Storage |
System drive and export drive on primary EIDE channel.
A/V drive and CD-ROM drive on secondary EIDE channel. |
| Software |
Matrox X.tools build 4263 and Adobe Premiere 6.5 |
| Installed expansion cards |
| AGP |
Matrox Parhelia |
| PCI
1 |
— |
| PCI
2 |
— |
| PCI
3 |
— |
| PCI
4 |
— |
| PCI 5 | — | | PCI 6 | Matrox RT.X |
| 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 5.00.1012 Date: 04/14/2003
| | 3 | Intel Application Accelerator, version 3.0 Date: 04/14/2003 | | 4 | Onboard Realtek AC'97 CODEC (ALC650) audio controller, version R3.41 Date: 04/16/2003
(downloaded from the AOpen web site) | | 5 | Onboard Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN network controller, version R3.35 Date: 04/16/2003
(downloaded from the AOpen web site) | | 6 | Onboard Serial ATA RAID controller, version R1.0.0.22 Date: 04/16/2003
(downloaded from the AOpen web site) |
*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits
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For more information, see
http://www.aopen.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 August, 13th, 2003.
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