Onze russische vrienden van iXBT Labs hebben een review van de Asus P3B-F in elkaar getikt. De P3B-F is de opvolger van de welbekende Asus P2B en is een van de eerste borden die wordt verpakt in een 6xPCI/1xISA layout. Verder heeft-ie (naast ordinaire dipswitches) een jumperless CPU config dingetje én wordt-ie geleverd met het nieuwe versie 6 Award/Phoenix BIOS:
Besides, we would like to specially dwell on BIOS installed into P3B-F. It is Award. However, it is not a 4.51 version, which already palls on everybody with its lapidary exterior, but a new 6.0 one developed by Award and Phoenix engineers after Phoenix had bought Award. As a result of these joint efforts, BIOS has a windowed structure with the exterior from Phoenix and interior from Award. That's why BIOS Setup contains all the functions required for system configuring: IRQ assigning for PCI slots, fine tuning of all memory timings, etc. Also BIOS supports Suspend-to-RAM function, which allows saving the working system state in the memory and the latter remains under voltage while all the other components are disconnected. Quitting this state takes 10 seconds at the most, and after that the user can resume the work from where he stopped when Suspend-to-RAM was activated.
