ASrock 775Dual-915GL Mainboard Intro 1/4
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775Dual-915GL

A few weeks ago, we reviewed the P4Dual-915GL which supports the Socket 478 processor. Today, we take a look at another board 775Dual-915GL which is also based on the same chipset 915GL and offers 5 output ports.

As you probably already know, Intel 915GL chipset does not support external AGP nor PCI-E interface. So, how is it possible for ASrock to make a board that supports 2 external graphics interfaces AGP and PCI-E using a conventional 915GL chipset. This is what I call innovation! ASrock calls them AGI Express and AGI8X interface.

From my understanding, ASrock combined the PCI bus to form an AGP slot and use 4 PCI-E X1 to form a PCI-E x 4 PCI-E slot. One question came to my mind is that, would it be enough for bandwidth hungry graphics cards? Well, we will take a closer look later.

The Asrock 7754Dual-915GL board supports the socket 775 P4 processor with HT technology. It is prescott ready and supports the usual Dual channel DDR400. It comes with some basic overclocking features. The interesting fact is that the board comes with internal Intel Media Accelerator Graphic Engine (H/W DirectX 9.0 support). We tested the on board video and found it to be satisfactory. DX9 games runs fine except those which needs Hardware T&L. If you 4 spare monitors, 1 AGP and 1 PCI-E card,  you can hook up to 5 monitors and have a surround display.

The BIOS also contains some settings allowing you to overclock your PCI-E speed to improve the PCI-E graphics card performance.

Other features of the board include 4 ports of SATA 1.5Gb/s, 7.1 channel audio, Ethernet, 8 x USB ports (4 at rear, another 4 through extension brackets).

LGA775 for Intel P4 processor
Intel 915GL chipset
 

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