The Canterwood, or now formally known as the 875P chipset has been officially launched by Intel supporting the new 800MHz FSB Pentium4 CPUs. Along with the 875P Northbridge, Intel also released a new Southbridge- the ICH5 supporting additional USB ports and Serial-ATA. We have the Northbridge, the Southbridge and a bunch of manufacturers getting ready to release boards based on these new chipset. However, we don’t see any 800MHz CPU in sight! We’ll leave that thought for another time- right now, lets take a look at one such motherboard by ASUS known as the P4C800.
CPU:
Socket 478 for Intel Pentium 4/ Celeron up to 3.2 GHz+ Intel Hyper-Threading Technology ready New power design supports Intel next generation Prescott CPU
ADI AD1985 SoundMAX 6-channel CODEC Audio Sensing and Enumeration Technology support S/PDIF out interface
IDE/SCSI:
2 x UltraDMA 100 2 x Serial ATA Promise 20378 RAID controller: 1 x UltraDMA 133 support two hard drives 2 x Serial ATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, Multiple RAID
I/O Connectors:
2 x PS/2, 1 x Serial, 1 x Parallel, 1 x Media, 1 x SPDIF, 4+4 x USB, 1+1 x 1394, 1 x RJ-45
Expansion Slots:
1 x AGP, 5 x PCI, 1 x WiFi
Additional Features:
3COM 3C940 Gigabit LAN PCI Controller supporting 10/100/1000 BASE-T Ethernet Intelligent CPU frequency tuner VIA 1394 Controller supports 2 x 1394 ports ASUS Q-Fan technology ASUS EZ Flash CrashFree BIOS2 ASUS POST Reporter Multi-language BIOS Asus Instant Music Asus MyLogo2
