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Review: 3-way Canterwood comparison

by Tarinder Sandhu on 14 May 2003, 00:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357), MSI, EPoX

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Comparative features table


Manufacturer Asus EPoX MSI
Model P4C800 Deluxe EP-4PC3A+ 875P NEO FISR2
Socket 478 478 478
Clock Speed w/3GHz 3030.27 3021.2 3014.5
NB Cooling Passive Passive Active
DIMM slots 4 4 4
Maximum RAM 4GB 4GB 4GB
AGP rate 8x 8x 8x
PAT Yes Yes Yes
ECC Support Yes Yes Yes
PCI Slots 5 32-bit 5 32-bit 5-32-bit
Southbridge Intel ICH5 (EB) Intel ICH5/R (ER) Intel ICH5/R (ER)
SB RAID support None S-ATA RAID0 S-ATA RAID0
Additional RAID Promise PDC20378 Highpoint HPT374 Promise PDC20378
RAID format RAID 0 (S-ATA or P-ATA or S-ATA + P-ATA), RAID 1, RAID 0+1 P-ATA RAID0, P-ATA RAID1, P-ATA RAID0+1 RAID 0 (S-ATA or P-ATA or S-ATA + P-ATA), RAID 1, RAID 0+1
ICH5 P-ATA 2 x ATA100 2 x ATA100 2 x ATA100
ICH5 S-ATA 2 x S-ATA 150 2 x S-ATA 150 2 x S-ATA 150
RAID ATA 1 x ATA133 4 x ATA133 1 x ATA133
RAID S-ATA 2 x S-ATA 150 None 2 x S-ATA 150
Firewire VIA VT6307 -

VIA VT6306

No. of ports 2 -

3

Sound AD1985 v2.3 CMI 9739A v2.2 Realtek ALC650 v2.2
Channel support 6 6 6
S/PDIF support Coaxial-Out - Coax / Optical-Out
LAN 3COM 940 (PCI) BroadCOM 5507 (PCI) Intel 547EI (CSA)
USB2.0 ports onboard 4 4 6
Additional support 0 0 2
Fan Headers 3 3 2
Form Factor 305*245 305*245 305*245
CPU Voltage 1.475v - 1.7v 1.45v - 1.6v 1.55v - 2.30v
VDIMM Voltage 2.55v - 2.85v 2.60 - 3.30v 2.50 - 3.30v
VAGP Voltage 1.50 - 1.80v 1.50 - 2.20v 1.50 - 2.10v
Voltage fluctuation Medium - Good Medium - Good Poor - Medium
FSB CPUs 100 - 400 100 - 350 200 - 500
CPU:RAM ratios at 200FSB 1:1, 5:4. 6:4 1:1, 5:4. 6:4 3:4, 4:5, 1:1, 5:4, 6:4