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GigaByte K8 Triton Socket 754 Motherboard

Gigabyte GA-K8U

02/20/06

The Gigabyte GA-K8U is a 754 Socket AMD motherboard supporting AGP and all the standard extras. Some of you might be wondering why I am going backwards and looking at a 754-socket motherboard when all the new stuff is 939 or better. The answer to the question is simple, Money or Cost. For many people times are getting tougher and its hard to pay the big bucks and invest into a hole new motherboard CPU and for the unfortunate folks the purchased a high end graphics card that is AGP a new video card to. So what we are going to do is set this motherboard up with a lower end CPU 2800+ 64 bit to be exact and a mid ranged AGP card and see how well it does. Then we will compare the numbers and the price to see if it is worth purchasing this solution, versus the new 939 stuff…

GA-K8U ULi M1689 chipset Processor

1. Socket 754 for AMD Athlon64

Chipset

1. ULi M1689 Chipset

2. Super I/O: SMSC LPC47M997-NR chip

3. Integrated peripherals

1. Realtek 8100C Ethernet controller

2. Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec

Memory

1. Type: DDR400/ 333/ 266- 184pin

2. Max capacity: Up to 3GB by 3 DIMM slots

Internal I/O Connectors

1. 2 x Serial ATA connector

2. 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors

3. 1 x FDD connector

4. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 4 ports)

5. S/P DIF input/output pin header

6. 3 x cooling fan pin headers

7. CD in

8. 1 x Game/Midi connector

Expansion Slots

1. 1 x AGP slot (8x/4x-AGP 3.0 compliant), supports 1.5v display card only.

2. 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)

Rear Panel I/O

1. PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse

2. 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

3. 1 x RJ45 port

4. 2 x COM ports

5. 1 x LPT

6. Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting

1. CPU FSB / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS

2. AGP Voltage adjustable via BIOS

3. DIMM Voltage adjustable via BIOS

Power

1. ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector

2. Power-off by Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP shut down and switch

Form Factor

1. ATX form factor

2. 29.4 x 21.0 cm

H/W Monitoring

1. CPU / System temperature detection

2. System voltage detection

3. CPU / System fan speed detection

BIOS

1. Award BIOS

Other Features

1. Xpress™ Installation,

2. Xpress™ Recovery

3. Xpress™ BIOS rescue

4. Q-Flash™

5. @BIOS™

Product Page

Price: Newegg 58.00 as of 2/15/06 Purchase Link

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Company Info

Your feedback is important to us. If you have any comments about our products or services, please kindly contact our customer service center.

G.B.T. INC. U.S.A
GIGABYTE USA Branch

17358 RAILROAD STREET
CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA 91748

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Tel: (626) 854-9338

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Fax: (626) 854-9339

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