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---And Look At All The Boards Available..... Already.

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Bunch of i845GE and i845PE Based Mainboards in Japanese Retail [11:07 am] Anton
Tomorrow Intel will officially announce its i845PE and i845GE chipsets with PC2700 memory and the Hyper-Threading technology support. As always, the land of the Rising Sun is ahead of the whole world: already yesterday a lot of Japanese companies started to sell mainboards from different vendors in retail. The prices on the novelties vary greatly: from affordable $100 to expensive $175.

Here is the list of the i845PE and i845GE powered mainboards with brief specifications that made their appearance this weekend in Japan:

Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Pro: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 1 CNR; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; Dual BIOS, etc; ATX. $110-$120.

Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5PCI; 1CNR; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; ATA-33/66/100/133 RAID controller PDC20276; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; Dual BIOS, etc; ATX. $135-$145. For more details see this news-story.

ASUS P4PE/LAN: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 6 PCI (including BlueMagic slot); 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Broadcom 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller BCM4401 KFB; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $115-$130. For more details see this news-story.

ASUS P4PE/GBL/SATA/1394: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 6 PCI (including BlueMagic slot); 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Promise Serial ATA-150 + Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133 RAID controller PDC20376; 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet controller Broadcom BCM5702 CKFB; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; FireWire (IEEE-1394) controller VIA VT6307; ATX. $160-$175. For more details see this news-story.

ASUS P4GE-V/LAN: i845GE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; Integrated Intel extreme Graphics core; AGP 4x, 6 PCI (including BlueMagic slot); 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Broadcom 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller BCM4401 KFB; AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $127-$130. For more details see this news-story.

MSI 845PE Max-L: i845PE; 2 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 1 CNR; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $115-$130.

MSI 845PE Max2-FIR: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 1 CNR; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Promise Parallel ATA-33/66/100/133 RAID controller PDC20276; Intel 10/100/1000Mb/s Ethernet controller RC82540EM; Cmedia CMI8738MX 6-channel sound; USB 2.0; FireWire (IEEE-1394) controller VIA VT6306; ATX. $145-$155.

ABIT BE7: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Realtek 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller RTL8100B; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $130-$140. For more information see this and this news-stories.

ABIT BE7-RAID: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; High Point ATA-33/66/100/133 RAID controller HPT372; Realtek 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller RTL8100B; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $150-$160. For more details check this and this news-stories.

Kurouto Shikou/Albatron PX845PEV Pro: i845PE; 3 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 5 PCI; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; 3Com 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller 3C910-A01; 6-channel AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. According to this Japanese web-site, the product is priced at $90-$100. For more information check this news-stories.

Mercurio F845PE: i845PE; 2 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; AGP 4x, 6 PCI; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; Realtek 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller RTL8100B; AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $110-$120.
Intel D845GEBV2L: i845GE; 2 DIMM slots for PC1600/PC2100/PC2700 memory; Integrated Intel extreme Graphics core; AGP 4x, 6 PCI; 2-channel ATA-33/66/100; 10/100Mb/s Ethernet controller; AC'97 sound; USB 2.0; etc; ATX. $135-$145.

All mainboards based on Intel's 845GE and 945PE chipsets meet the latest Intel's guidelines and can support the Pentium 4 processors with 3.06GHz clock-speed and higher. They also can take advantage of the Hyper-Threading technology, unlike some of predecessors.

Since the official announcement of the core-logic devices from Intel will happen tomorrow, expect mainboards based on these chipsets from different manufacturers to become widely available during the week to come.


--- And with reports today that intel will into 3GHZ in November, Availability for Christmas looks very good to me..... for intel that is.
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