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Intel D845PEBT2
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2 28845 09-05-2005
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100% of reviewers $100.00 10.0



Description: Excellent mobo from Intel. Supports P4 chips with 533Mz or 400Mz FSB, DDR333 RAM (up to 2G max), one 4xAGP slot, ATX form factor, Serial ATA support, onboard sound, 5 PCI expansion slots, USB 2.0 support (offers 4 ports on the back panel, with an adapter for 2 additional backside ports, or 2 optional front panel ports, integrated Intel PRO/100 LAN connection.

Commentary: this is a great board, and works especially well with the P4 CPU. There is a huge amount of expansion available with this board, and being able to wire up USB ports on the front panel is a major ease-of-use advantage. The built in sound and NIC are useful too, both of which eliminate various initial configuration issues. I don't use SATA but the fact that this board supports it is a great thing, assuming that I decide to go in that direction.

Overall, this is a great board and should meet or exceed anyone's expectations.
Keywords: motherboard mobo pentium intel P4
Chipset: 845x
Connection Type: Socket 478


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Old 11-13-2004, 05:30 PM   #1
Nerox
 
Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 111

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.x
Distribution: Debian based



The integrated ethernet card is supported since Linux-2.4.x series. Making integrated sound card work, is harder, but it works.
 
Old 09-05-2005, 11:12 AM   #2
cnjohnson
 
Registered: Nov 2002
Distribution: FreeBSD, Linux, OS-X
Posts: 544

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $100.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 5.4-RELEASE
Distribution: freeBSD


This motherboard is fully supported by freeBSD. Adding these two lines to /boot/loader.conf:

snd_pcm_load="YES" # Digital sound subsystem
snd_ich_load="YES" # Intel ICH

will activate the onboard sound.

One could not ask for a more solid motherboard when running freeBSD in a desktop environment.

Cheers--
Charles
 




  



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