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Motherboard compatibility test
ASUS P4P8X




Motherboard specifications

CPU Single socket 478
Pentium 4
Chipset Intel 865P
Expansion slots 5 PCI
1 AGP
Storage South Bridge Intel ICH5:
2 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
2 x serial ATA
I/OADI AD1985 SoundMAX integrated
digital audio controller
3Com Gigabit LAN PCI network controller
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 1016 Date: 03/23/2004
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 6122 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5

Installed expansion cards
AGP Matrox Millennium P750
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 5.1.1.1002 Date: 12/12/2003
3 Onboard 3Com Gigabit LAN PCI network controller, version 5.02.1003 Date: 10/20/2003
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)

Tested AGP display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*
Matrox Millennium P750 Version 1.05.00.107
Date: 09/26/2003		 Yes Yes
ATI Radeon 9700 PRO Version 6.14.10.6444
Date: 05/12/2004		 Yes Yes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
Creative Sound Blaster
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum 		Version 5.12.1.443
Date: 02/23/2004		 4
Onboard ADI AD1985 SoundMAX
integrated digital audio controller		 Version 5.12.01.3630
Date: 06/30/2003		 Onboard


*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 June 22, 2004.

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