SiS Kicks Off: 10 Motherboards With The 645 Chipset and DDR333

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Manufacturer	Biostar	Epox	Jetway	Soltek	Soyo
Product	M7SXF	EP-4SDA+	S446R	SL-85DRS2	P4S
Chipset
Socket	mPGA478	mPGA478	mPGA478	mPGA478	mPGA478
Clock (CPU/Bus)	1991.81 / 99.59	2093.72 / 104.69	2017.75 / 100.89	2000.14 / 100.01	1995.00 / 99.75
Northbridge	SiS645	SiS645	SiS645	SiS645	SiS645
Southbridge	SiS961	SiS961	SiS961	SiS961	SiS961
Northbridge Fan	no	no	no	no	yes
Form Factor	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX
Memory
Max. RAM	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB
DIMM Socket	3, DDR	3, DDR	3, DDR	3, DDR	3, DDR
Memory Type	DDR-SDRAM, unbuffered	DDR-SDRAM, unbuffered	DDR-SDRAM, unbuffered	DDR-SDRAM, unbuffered	DDR-SDRAM, unbuffered
ECC-Support	no	no	no	no	no
Standard Features
Dimensions (LxW)	Row 15 - Cell 1	Row 15 - Cell 2	Row 15 - Cell 3	30.5 x 22.5 cm	30.5 x 23 cm
PCI Slots	5x 32 Bit	6x 32 Bit	5x 32 Bit	6x 32 Bit	6x 32 Bit
AGP	4x	4x	4x	4x	4x
AGP Clip	no	yes	no	no	no
ACR / AMR / CNR	yes / no / yes	no / no / no	no / no / yes	no / no / no	no / no / no
Parallel Ports	1	1	1	1	1
Serial Ports	2	2	2	2	2
USB internal/external	4/2	4/2	4/2	2/2	4/2
Fan Headers	2	3	2	3	4
IDE Controller	2x UltraATA 100	2x UltraATA 100	2x UltraATA 100	2x UltraATA 100	2x UltraATA 100
Additional Components
Piezo Loudspeaker OnBoard	no	no	yes	no	no
Wake on LAN (WOL)	yes	no	no	no	no
Wake on Modem (WOM)	no	no	no	no	no
IrDA-Port	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Case Sensor	no	no	no	yes	no
Temperature Monitoring	CPU, System	CPU, System	CPU, System	CPU, CPU2, System	CPU, System
Fan Status Monitoring	CPU, System	CPU, System	CPU, System	CPU, System	CPU, System
Network Controller	no	no	no	no	yes, ICS
IDE RAID Controller	no	HighPoint HPT372	Promise PDC20265R	no	HighPoint HPT372
Firewire-Controller	no	no	no	no	no
SCSI-Controller	no	no	no	no	no
Sound System
Typ	AC97	AC97	AC97	AC97	PCI
Manufacturer / Chip	Avance Logic AL201A	Avance Logic AL201A	Avance Logic AL201A	Avance Logic AL201A	C-Media CMI8738
Interfaces (Int/Ext)	3/3	3/3	1/3	2/3	2/7
External Line (Out/In/Mic)	1/1/1	1/1/1	1/1/1	1/1/1	4/2/1
Internal Line (Out/In/CD)	0/1/2	0/2/1	0/1/0	0/1/1	0/0/2
Setup
CPU Configuration	BIOS	BIOS	BIOS	BIOS + DIP	BIOS
Optional Multipliers	auto, 8 - 23 / 1	auto, 8 - 23 / 1	8 - 23 / 1	8 - 24 / 1	8 - 23 / 1
FSB Range / Increment	100, 105, 108, 112	100 - 200 / 1	100 - 200 / 1	100 - 133 / 2-5	100-255 / 1
Voltage
Vcore Range / Increment	n/a	+ 0.175 V / 0.025	1.100 - 1.850 / 0.025	n/a	1.100 - 1.850 / 0.025
Vram / Increment	n/a	+ 0.7 / 0.1	n/a	2.5 - 2.8 / 0.1	2.5 - 3.5 / 0.1
Vchipset / Increment	n/a	+ 0.7 / 0.1	n/a	n/a	VAGP 1.5 - 1.8 / 0.1
Board and BIOS Details
Bios	Award	Award	Award	AMI	Award
Version	1.14	?	F05	1.4	2AA3
Date	Jan 17, 2002	Nov 27, 2001	Nov 14, 2001	Jan 5, 2002	Jan 16, 2002
Motherboard Revision	1.0	0.1	?	?	?
Boot Devices	Floppy, LS120, SCSI, CD, HD 0-3, ZIP100, LAN	Floppy, LS120, SCSI, CD, HD 0-3, ZIP100, LAN, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP	Floppy, LS120, SCSI, CD, HD 0-3, ZIP100, LAN	Floppy, LS120, SCSI, CD, HD 0-3, ZIP100, LAN	Floppy, LS120, SCSI, CD, HD 0-3, ZIP100, LAN
Manual Interrupt Assignment	no	no	no	yes	no
Special Features	Row 58 - Cell 1	Row 58 - Cell 2	Row 58 - Cell 3	Row 58 - Cell 4	CPU:DRAM Ratio 1:1, 3:4 or 3:5
Clock Generator	ICS 952001AF	ICS 952001AF	Row 59 - Cell 3	ICS 93705CF	ICS 952001AF
Other
Layout Issues	see evaluation	see evaluation	see evaluation	see evaluation	see evaluation
Shipment / Utilities
Manual / Quality	yes, good	yes, average	yes, average	yes, good	yes, excellent
Languages	English	English	English	English	English
Quick Setup Guide	yes	no	no	no	yes
Cable	1x IDE-80, 1x Floppy	1x IDE-80, 1x Floppy	1x IDE-80, 1x Floppy	1x IDE-80, 1x Floppy	3x IDE-80, 1x Floppy
USB Adapter	no	no	no	no	yes, Drive Bay model
Software	Row 68 - Cell 1	Row 68 - Cell 2	Row 68 - Cell 3	Pc Cillin 2000, Virtual Drive, Partition Magic 6.0, Drive Image 4.0	Adobe Active Share, norton Ghost 2002, Anti Virus 2002, Vcom, WinDVD, Imagemore
Miscellaneous	Row 69 - Cell 1	Row 69 - Cell 2	Row 69 - Cell 3	Temperature Probe	Row 69 - Cell 5