Which motherboard would you recommend Asus P4C800 deluxe or Gigabyte 8KNXP?

[Colin]

I'm just wondering which board you all would recommend, it looks like there
are some problems with the Gigabyte 8knxp board reading the gigabyte
newsgroup but the Asus P4C800 deluxe board seems very stripped down in
comparison and also seems to use less expensive components.

Any input appreciated
Colin

 

[Jim]

I just bought the Asus P4C800 deluxe board. It seems fine.
It does everything I could ever want and more. I'm
curious what features you see it as lacking.

 

[Colin]

Check the link for a comparison of a lot of boards, the main thing is 4 IDE
ports(can hook up more than 2 IDE hard drives and more than 2 cd drives)
better components like Texas Instrument firewire etc.

http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030707/index.html

Gigabyte 8KNXP
1.. North Bridge : Intel® 875P MCH
2.. South Bridge : Intel® ICH5R
3.. Integrated Peripherals :
4.. Intel® CSA interface Gigabit Ethernet Controller
5..

1.. Silicon Image Serial ATA chip
2.. Texas Instrument IEEE 1394 chip
3.. GigaRAID controller chip
4.. Realtek ALC658 CODEC

Front Side Bus
1.. 800 / 533 / 400 MHz FSB

Memory
1.. Type: Dual Channel DDR 400 / 333 / 266 ECC support
2.. Max capacity: 4 GB
3.. DIMM slots: 6

Internal I/O Connectors


1.. 4 x Serial ATA connectors
2.. 2 x IEEE 1394 pin headers
3.. 2 x USB 2.0 (supports 4 ports by cable)
2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE
4.. 2 x UltraDMA 100/66 Bus Master IDE
5.. 1 x FDD
6.. 1 x S/P-DIF input/output pin header
CD/AUX in
7.. 1 x Game port pin header

Expansion Slots
1.. 1 x AGP Pro slot
2.. 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)
3.. 1 x DPS slot

Rear Panel I/O
1.. 4 x USB 2.0 ports
2.. 1 x RJ45 LAN port
3.. 1 x LPT port
4.. 2 x COM ports
3 x Audio ports (Line-in / Line-out / MIC)
5.. 2 x PS/2 ports (Keyboard/Mouse)

Form Factor
1.. ATX
2.. 30.5cm x 24.4cm

H/W Monitoring


1.. ITE 8712F
2.. System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
3.. Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, power-in
voltage, CPU voltage, and fan speed.

BIOS
1.. 2 x 4M bit flash ROM, Award BIOS

Other Features
1.. Xpress Install
2.. Xpress Recovery
Smart Fan
3.. EasyTuneT 4
4.. @BIOS
5.. Q-FlashT
6.. Multi Language BIOS

Bundle Software
1.. Norton Internet Security 2003
Norton Anti VirusT
1.. NortonT Personal Firewall
NortonT Privacy Control
NortonT Parental Control
2.. NortonT Spam Alert

2.. GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
3.. Adobe Acrobat Reader

Driver
1.. Intel® chipset software installation utility
2.. Silcon Image Serial ATA driver
3.. GigaRAID IDE RAID driver
Intel® RAID Driver
4.. Intel® PRO/1000 CT LAN driver
Realtek audio driver
USB2.0 driver