This P4 board is good for both homes and offices ( it has onboard LAN). For using surround sound, reconfigure line-in and mic-in jacks using the accompanying SoundMax software. To use line-in and mic functions also, it has pin-outs, but no separate connectors. It has onboard AGP with 32 MB RAM and a 4x AGP slot. The chipset can burn if you connect regular 3.3V AGP 2x (the manual clearly points this out). The board performed very well with onboard graphics (see table). It’s a good buy, though it would have been better if it supported the faster 333 MHz DDR RAM.
Snapshot
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Price
Rs |
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6,900 (2 yr warranty) |
Key
specs |
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IR and SPDIF digital, 5.1 sound, 845G chipset, up to 2 GB DDR RAM (200/266 MHz) |
Contact |
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Tirupati Enterprises, Calcutta |
Tel |
: |
22423861 |
E-mail |
: |
abhishek@tirupati.net |
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Business Winstone 2001 |
Content Creation Winstone 2001 |
Quake III Arena (640*480*16)
(fps) |
Gigabyte GA-8IGML* |
59.1 |
78.5 |
80.7 |
Jetway P4MFM* |
51.4 |
73 |
48.3 |
Jetway P4MFM** |
56.1 |
75.8 |
235.6 |
* with onboard AGP
**with external AGP card using NVidia GeForce 2 with 64 MB video memory |
All
tests done on Intel P4 2.2 GHz, 256 MB RAM (266 MHz), a 7200-rpm hard
drive on Win XP |
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Anoop Mangla