Deluxe Gear: Gigabit LAN, FireWire And Serial ATA

ASUS went all out with the interfaces, packing FireWire and USB 2.0 onto the board. A Marvell chip handles network support and also offers Gigabit-LAN as well as 10/100 MBit/s. For the P4R800V, Asus remedied the missing serial ATA interface on the ATI chipset by adding a controller from SIS. The SIS180 is RAID-capable and supports Level 0, 1 or 0+1.

The additional hard disk controller can also manage two more IDE hard disks, although without RAID functions.

With the VIA VT6307 component, Asus makes the FireWire interface available.

Gigabit support with the Marvell 88E001-LKJ

SiS RAID controller for two serial ATA disks, as well as an IDE channel

Siggy Moersch
Siggy Moersch