ECS PT880-A VIA PT880
P4 Mainboard Review (1) Bluetooth 11 Mar 2004
ECS dishes out another Pentium 4 solution based
on the new VIA PT880 Dual Channel DDR400 chipset. The ECS PT880-A supports the
Socket 478 P4 and Prescott making it one of the newer member of the ECS line of
P4 boards. This board uses the VIA PT880 paried up with 8237 South Bridge. It
supports DDR400 with up to 3 GB of DDR400.
In terms of expansion, it supports 1 AGP 8x, 5
PCI, 1 CNR slot. It can hook up to 4 IDE HDD and 2 SATA (with RIAD 0 or 1
configuration).
When it comes to ECS, everyone will think that
there is no overclocking functions. That is going to change as the PT880 does
introduce a minor voltage overclock function to its vcore and vdimm. So how does
it perform against the other P4 chipsets. Lets read on.
Specifications
PT880-A v1.0
CPU
Socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4 processor
FSB 800/533/400 MHz
Support Hyper-Threading Technology
CHIPSET
VIA PT880 & VT8237
North Bridge: VIA PT880
South Bridge: VIA VT8237
MEMORY
Dual -channel DDR memory
3 x 184-pin DDR DIMM socket support up to 3GB
Support DDR400/333/266/200 2.5V DDR SDRAM
EXPANSION SLOT
1 x AGP 8X/4X slot
5 x PCI slots
1 x CNR slot
STORAGE
Support by VT8237
-4 x Ultra DMA133/100/66 devices
-2 x Serial ATA devices
RAID0, RAID1 configuration
REAR PANEL I/O
1 x PS/2 keyboard & PS/2 mouse connectors
4 x USB ports
1 x RJ45 LAN connector
1 x Parallel port (LPT1)
2 x Serial ports (COM1 & COM2)
1 x Audio port (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in)
INTERNAL I/O CONNECTORS & HEADERS
1 x 20-pin ATX Power Supply Connector & 4-pin 12V Connector
1 x Floppy connector - supports 360K~2.88M ByteS, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
2 x IDE connectors
2 x Serial ATA connectors
2 x USB 2.0 header support additional 4 USB ports
1 x Speaker header
1 x SPDIF out header
1 x Front panel switch/LED header
1 x Front panel audio header
CD in/AUX in header
CPUFAN/CASFAN connectors
SYSTEM BIOS
Award BIOS with 2Mb Flash ROM
Supports Plug and Play 1.0A, APM 1.2, Multi Boot, DMI
Supports ACPI revision 1.0 specification
