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Motherboard compatibility test
GIGABYTE GA-8ANXP-D




Motherboard specifications

CPU Single socket 775
Intel Pentium 4
Chipset Intel 925X
Expansion slots 1 PCI Express (x16)
3 PCI Express (x1)
2 PCI
Storage South Bridge Intel ICH6R:
1 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
4 x serial ATA

Silicon Image Sil 3114:
4 x serial ATA
I/O Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller
Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
Realtek ALC880 audio codec
T.I. IEEE1394b controller
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 F4 Date: 09/10/2004
Memory 1024 MB DDR2 RAM
Storage System drive on serial ATA ICH6R channel 1. A/V drive on serial ATA ICH6R channel 2.
Software Matrox X.tools build 6122 with Hotfix 1 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5

Installed expansion cards
PCI 1 MSI PCX5750-TD128
PCI 2
PCI 3
PCI 4
PCI 5Matrox RT.X
PCI 6

Additional required software
We installed patches and drivers in the following order:
1 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Updates
2 Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility, version 6.0.1.1002 Date: 06/18/2004
3Silicon Image Sil 3114 serial ATA controller, version 1.0.0.1 Date: 09/22/2003
(downloaded from the GIGABYTE web site)
4Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet controller, version 7.73 Date: 04/29/2004
(downloaded from the GIGABYTE web site)
5Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller, version 1.10 Date: 10/02/2003
(downloaded from the GIGABYTE web site)
6Intel bus driver, version 5.10.0.5010 Date: N/A
7Matrox PCI Optimizer

Comments
For proper operation, choose Start > Control Panel, double-click the Sounds and Audio Devices icon, click the Audio tab, and under Sound recording, set the default device to Rear Input.
Using the onboard ICH6R controller in a RAID configuration is not supported with RT.X.

Tested PCI Express display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*
MSI PCX5750-TD Version 61.77
Date: 07/27/2004
Yes Yes
MSI RX600XT-TD128Version 6.14.10.6467
Date: 08/16/2004
YesYes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Version 1.84.50
Date: 07/29/2004
6
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz Version 4161S
Date: 04/26/2002
6
Realtek ALC880 audio codec Version 5.12.0.5027
Date: 07/06/2004
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 December 6, 2004.

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