| Soltek SL-865Pro-775 Motherboard Specifications |
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| CPU Interface | Socket 775 Pentium 4 (Prescott) |
| Chipset | Intel 865PE/ICH5 |
| Bus Speeds | 200MHz to 327MHz (in 1MHz increments) |
| PCI/AGP Speeds | 33.33/66.66, 36.36/72.73, 40.00/80.00 |
| DDR Speeds | Auto, 400, 333, 266 |
| Core Voltage | 0.85V to 1.80Vin 0.0125V increments |
| DRAM Voltage | Auto, 2.6V to 2.9V in 0.1V increments |
| AGP Voltage | Auto, 1.5V to 1.8V in 0.1V Increments |
| Memory Slots | Four 184-pin DDR400/333/266 Slots Dual-Channel Unbuffered Memory to 4GB |
| Expansion Slots | 1 AGP 8X Slot 5 PCI Slots |
| Onboard SATA/RAID | 2 SATA 150 drives by ICH5 2 SATA drives by Promise PDC20579 Promise Drives ONLY RAID 0,1,JBOD |
| Onboard IDE/RAID | Two ATA100/66 by ICH5 - 4 drives Plus One ATA 133/100/66 (Promise) - 2 drives Promise Drives ONLY RAID 0, 1, JBOD) |
| Onboard USB 2.0/IEEE-1394 | 8 USB 2.0 ports IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports by VIA VT6307 |
| Onboard LAN | 2 X Gigabit PCIe LAN Both by Marvel 88E8053 |
| Onboard Audio | Realtek ALC650 6-Channel AC'97 2.2 Compliant |
| Tested BIOS | 1.2 Beta |
The Soltek 865PRO-775 was designed to compete in price with the better 865 boards for Socket 478, while providing support for the new Socket 775. The feature set is very comparable to other top 865 boards. Soltek did not include the RAID version of the ICH5 southbridge, deciding instead to add additional SATA and IDE RAID ports with a Promise controller. This brings drive support to 4 SATA devices and 6 IDE devices which should satisfy almost any user. Also included are firewire ports and a 6-channel audio codec.
The BIOS controls have wide adjustment ranges that should allow overclockers to push the Soltek to wherever the processor can go.
Overclocking
One of the reasons an 865PE chipset might be useful is because it is one of the best overclocking chipsets ever produced by Intel. At stock voltage we found we could reach 265FSB with a 2.8 LGA 775, or about 3.7GHz, at default voltage. This is one of the best overclocks we have achieved with a Socket 775 processor with a SATA hard drive, and it is certainly an improvement over the 10% OC limitation we are seeing on some 915 motherboards.
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Wonga - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
Sorry to be picky, but there is another mistake on the 'Test Setup' page, where it states it is going to be compared with an Athlon FX53, but that isn't in the review. Might wanna correct that. Like I say, sorry to be picky :)matman326 - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I know you guys are busy ,but man I hope you guys are planning an extreme overclocking review with this board... kind curious how fast the prescot can go.RyanVM - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
#7 - NoWesley Fink - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
#4 - "Return to Castle Wofenstein - Enemy Territory" is our updated OpenGL game that will eventually replace Quake 3 in our benches. Results for Q3 and RCW-ET are both included.Brian23 - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
Isn't Doom 3 a DirectX game?Spacecomber - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I thought that I had read how the new Intel chipsets were optimized for the Prescott core (and vice versa) and that we could expect to see better performance out of the Prescotts on these new chipsets. Where is it? Or, is it the high latency DDR2 that's masking this?Wesley Fink - Tuesday, August 17, 2004 - link
I apologize for the post appearing while it was being created online. I am posting this on the fly while I am traveling home from Anand's wedding.This article was scheduled to go live at noon Monday, but that did not happen for technical reasons. I ended up recreating it from files and docs on my laptop.
nitromullet - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
Looks like they got that issue fixed. Next question, why didn't they replace Quake3 with Doom3 as the new OpenGL benchmark? I mean, these rigs run Quake3 at almost 450 FPS...PMChris - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
Yeah, like #1 said, this publish attempt was really bad. It should've piqued an editor's attention when the product being reviewed fails to appear in any benchmark table.Octunar99 - Monday, August 16, 2004 - link
haha, I thought I was going crazy. I am glad I am not the only person not seeing this.