Motherboard compatibility test
Tyan Tomcat i915 (S5120)
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Motherboard specifications
| CPU |
Single socket 775
Intel Pentium 4 |
| Chipset |
Intel 915G |
| Expansion slots |
1 PCI Express (x16)
2 PCI Express (x1)
4 PCI |
| Storage |
South Bridge Intel ICH6:
1 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
4 x serial ATA |
| I/O | Broadcom PCI-E (x1) Gigabit Ethernet controller
Realtek ALC880 High Definition Audio controller
VIA IEEE-1394 controller |
| Front side Bus |
533/800 MHz |
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Test results |
Tested configuration
| CPU |
Single Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled) |
| Front side bus | 800 MHz
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| BIOS |
Award version 1.02 Date: 08/02/2004
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| Memory |
1 GB DDR RAM
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| Storage |
System drive on a serial ATA channel. A/V drive and export drive on a second serial ATA channel. |
| Software |
Matrox X.tools build 6122 with Hotfix 2 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5
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| Installed expansion cards |
| PCI
1 |
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 |
| PCI
2 |
— |
| PCI
3 |
Matrox RT.X |
| PCI
4 |
— |
| PCI 5 |
— |
| PCI 6 | — | | PCI 7 | — |
| Additional required software |
| We installed patches and drivers in the following order: |
| 1 |
Microsoft
Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Updates |
| 2 | Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility version 6.2.1.1001 Date: 09/03/2004 | | 3 | Broadcom PCI-E (x1) Gigabit Ethernet controller version 7.80.0.0 Date: 06/19/2004
(downloaded from the Tyan web site) | | 4 | Matrox PCI Optimizer |
| Comments |
Note: Unless otherwise specified, validation testing is performed using the system/motherboard default settings.
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Before installing your Matrox RT.X card, you must make the following
changes
in the system BIOS: |
| • |
Choose the PnP/PCI Configuration menu, and set Init Display First
to PCIEx. |
*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits
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For more information, see
http://www.tyan.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 February 23, 2005.
List of validated motherboards
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