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Review: Asus P4G8X Deluxe

by David Ross on 24 January 2003, 00:00 4.5

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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In the Box



• The motherboard
• Driver CD with metallic case badge.
• Case backing plate.
• Additional USB and Game port plate.
• IEEE 1394 Cable.
• IEEE 1394 Firewire Plate.
• SPDIF in/out audio plate and lead.
• 2 Serial ATA data cables. (Still no SATA power leads!).
• Motherboard diagram for fixing to your case.
• The usual IDE and Floppy cables.
• Manual.
• Bundled InterVideo WinCinema Gold package.
• System hardware monitor software.



Getting going – Equipment

The system was setup using the following components…

Hardware
• Pentium 4 2.66Mhz Processor (133 FSB x 20 multiplier)
• Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro (324Mhz core / 320Mhz Memory)
• Pair of 256MB sticks of Corsair XMS3500 CAS2 DDR Memory.
• 80GB Seagate ST380023AS SATA Hard Drive.
• Vapochil standard cooling system.
• Dell FS2000 21” Display using DVI connector.
• Sparkle 400W PSU
• Pioneer 16X DVD Rom



Software
• Windows XP Professional
• Intel chipset drivers
• Intel application accelerator
• DirectX 9
• ATI Catalyst 3 drivers and control panel
• Sisoft Sandra 2003
• Pifast
• HEXUS Seti benchmark
• Futuremark 3D Mark 2001 SE
• UT2003
• QuakeIII
• Serious Sam 2