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 |
South Bridge Intel ICH5:
2 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
2 x serial ATA RAID
Silicon Image:
2 x serial ATA RAID |
| I/O | Broadcom Gigabit PCI LAN
network controller
Realtek AC'97 CODEC (ALC650)
audio controller
USB v2.0 |
| Front side Bus |
400/533/800MHz |
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Test results |
Tested configuration
| CPU |
Single Pentium 4 3.0 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled) |
| Front side bus | 800 MHz |
| BIOS |
Phoenix Award version R1.02 Date: 07/02/2003 |
| Memory |
512 MB 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 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 2.3 Date: 11/13/2002 | | 4 | Onboard Realtek AC'97 CODEC (ALC650) audio controller, version R3.43 Date: 06/18/2003
(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 Silicon Image SiI3112A 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 |
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 June 22, 2004.
List of validated motherboards
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