Before the official launch of the Springdale chipsets slated sometime this week, let's take a step back and have a look once more at the Intel 845PE chipset. Although it's going to be phased out real soon, the 845PE is still very much alive with support for Intel's latest Hyper-Threading technology.
Somehow, the Intel 845PE's yield was much better than most of us had expected and with a little bit of work to optimize the motherboard's layout, the 845PE is now fully boosted to support up to an 800MHz FSB clock. That puts the chipset all the way up there alongside the soon-to-be-announced Springdale chipsets. Although what's missing with the 845PE is dual-channel memory and AGP 8X support, it is still very much useful for users who want a budget system based on Intel's latest 800MHz FSB.
Gigabyte has just recently refreshed their P4 Titan series with a whole new line-up for 800MHz FSB support and that included the GA-8PE800 Ultra. Users who want something simple with a limited budget to spare will find the GA-8PE800 Ultra very handy. Let's find out what the board has to offer at the specification level first.
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May 20, 2003, 09:54 AM
