AOPEN AX4C Max i875 Canterwood (1)

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AOPEN AX4C Max i875 Canterwood Mainboard (1)
Overclocker 21 Apr 2003

AOPEN AX4C Max i875 Canterwood

AOPEN introduces its latest mainboard based on Canterwood last week. AX4C MAX is the high end model of a series of 3 boards using the new 875 chipset. Today, we reviewed the AX4C Max which is targetted at the workstation level users.

The board supports the latest p4 800mhz cpu and uses an enhanced controller with 82875P memory controller hub (MCH) and ICH5R that supports RAID function. Canterwood is ready to support dual channel of DDR 400 and "Performance Acceleration Technology".

AX4C Max comes equipped with lots of nice features - 4 SATA ports with RAID, Dual Channel DDR400, Die Hard BIOS, 6 channel audio, AOpen innovative Hercules PCI slot (Blue PCI slot), Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet, 1394 etc.

On this board, AOpen introduces a new technology known as HerculesPCI. HerculesPCI comes in a separate set of 3.3 volt power circuitry, HerculesPCI supplies needed current and making it virtually free from the “loading issue” of traditional PCI slot. In addition, traces around this specially designed slot power delivery are upgraded for making its signals much more robust than their fellow PCI slots onboard. When building machines with PCI cards, such as SCSI and RAID cards, the card installed on this slot will never be affected even when the board is fully populated. Hercules PCI keeps supplying you best performance and stability.

Comparison table of AX4C Series

Models	AX4C-G	AX4C-Pro	AX4C Max
Chipsets	Intel 875P, ICH5	Intel 875P ICH5R	Intel 875P, ICH5R
FSB	800/533MHz	800/533MHz	800/533MHz
Graphics	AGP 8X	AGP 8X	AGP 8X
Memory (dual Channel)	DDR400/333	DDR400/333	DDR400/333
Serial ATA Ports	X 2	X 2	X 4
IDE ATA133	X	X	V
RAID (RAID 0 = SATA 1 & 2) (RAID 0, 1, 0+1 = SATA 3 & 4, IDE ATA133)	X	V (RAID 0)	V (RAID 0, 1, 0+1 with Promise PDC20378)
LAN	X	Broadcom 10/100Mbps LAN	Broadcom Gigabit LAN
IEEE1394 ports	X	X	X 2

In addition, AX4C series does come with further useful features such as AOconfig (AX4C Pro, AX4C Max only), Die-Hard BIOS lite, Die-Hard BIOS II (AX4C Pro, AX4C Max only) for your usage.

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