Motherboard compatibility test
AOpen AX4C Max II




Motherboard specifications

CPU Single socket 478
Pentium 4
Chipset Intel 875P
Expansion slots 6 PCI
1 AGP
Storage South Bridge Intel ICH5R:
2 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
2 x serial ATA RAID

Promise PDC20378:
1 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
2 x serial ATA RAID
I/O Broadcom NetXtreme
Gigabit network controller
Realtek AC'97 audio controller
USB v2.0
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 Version 1.03 Date: 08/23/2003
Memory 512 MB DDR 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 5078 and Adobe Premiere Pro

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 3.5.2 Date: 09/18/2003
4 Onboard Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit network controller, version 3.35 Date: 04/16/2003
5 Onboard Promise serial ATA RAID controller, version 1.00.0.19 Date: 04/16/2003
6Matrox PCI Optimizer

Tested AGP display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*
Matrox Millennium G550 Version 5.91.008
Date: 08/29/2003
Yes Yes
Matrox Millennium P750 Version 1.05.00.107
Date: 09/26/2003
Yes Yes
Matrox Parhelia Version 1.05.00.107
Date: 09/26/2003
Yes Yes
ASUS GeForce 4 V8460 Ultra Version 45.23
Date: 08/13/2003
Yes Yes
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO Version 6.14.10.6378
Date: 08/10/2003
Yes Yes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Version 5.12.1.253
Date: 12/31/2002
4
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Version: Audigy 2 DriverPack 3
Date: 05/09/2003
4
Hercules Digifire 7.1 Version 6.09
Date: 02/28/2003
4
Onboard Realtek AC'97 audio controller Version 3.41
Date: 04/16/2003
Onboard
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Version 4161S
Date: 04/26/2002
4


*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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