Mike Andrawes van AnandTech heeft zijn review van de Asus P4T gepost, het Pentium 4 i850-plankje dat al sinds eind 2000 op de markt is. Nu de P4 langzaam maar zeker interessanter aan het worden is werd het ook voor AnandTech zaak om de bijhorende bordjes individueel eens grondig te onderzoeken.
Over deze P4T was men in ieder geval zeer te spreken: het enige nadeel(tje) was het ontbreken van een onboard RAID-controller. Daar staat echter wel een goede layout, performance en stabiliteit tegenover. De conclusie gaat dan ook als volgt:
We’ve seen ASUS set the standard for a particular type of motherboard in the past and we do believe they have done it again. While companies like ABIT are jumping onto the Pentium 4 bandwagon now, ASUS has proven to have one of the best Pentium 4 out there. The only downside, if any, would be the lack of an on-board IDE RAID controller.
Fortunately, that’s a minor complaint since everything else is close to perfect on the P4T. ASUS’s unique board design once again proves to be very effective in providing solid performance and stability, which performs better than the reference design in some cases and runs smoothly without a crash in all our stress tests.
The overclocking package on the P4T is quite good as well, giving you a lot of flexibility in fine tuning your system to squeeze out the last drop of performance from the system. Even under heavy overclocking situations, the P4T ran reliably without a crash.
Quite possibly one of the most compelling features of the P4T is its ability to work in a standard ATX case with a standard ATX power supply thanks to the baseboard included in the box and the careful design of the board to run properly with standard ATX power.
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