Chaintech 9BJA Socket 478 moederbord review

Jimmy Tang van HardwareZone.com heeft zijn review van het Chaintech 9BJA Socket 478 moederbord online geslingerd. Dit bord is gebaseerd op de i845 chipset en beschikt over drie 168 pins SDRAM sloten. Verder vind je er vijf PCI sloten, één CNR slot, één AGP gleuf en een C-Media on-board sound chip. Het plankje werd getest met een 2GHz Pentium 4 processor in Windows 2000 en vergeleken met de Intel D845WNL. De reviewer prijst het bord om zijn 1MHz staps bus-overclocking, maar raadt het bord aan overclockers af, omdat er geen voltage tweaks aanwezig zijn. De Chaintech verdient vier van de vijf te halen sterren:

Overall, the Chaintech 9BJA Socket-478 motherboard for the Pentium 4 processor is a promising entry for budget-conscious users who prefer PC133 SDRAM as opposed to the more expensive (but better performing) RDRAM. Bundled with good features and an attractive price tag, the 9BJA will make a fairly user friendly motherboard for both beginners and advance users.

The 9BJA's performance was on-par with the original Intel D845WNL (except for SysMark 2001's Internet Content Creation suite) and was able to handle all the benchmarks thrown at it without problems. Although the engineering sample we tested was based on an early BIOS revision, stability was never an issue. However, we felt that the board could have featured more on-board peripherals such as a 10/100Mbps Ethernet (like the D845WNL) or even a simple IDE RAID controller. Hardcore overclockers might also want to steer away from the 9BJA since it lacks any voltage tweaking controls in the BIOS. But if simplicity is all that you require, the 9BJA will be an attractive buy.

Thanks JAMF voor de tip.