Albatron PX865PE Lite Pro i848P

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Nicholas Hart
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Albatron
May. 14, 2004

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Test System

DFI LanParty Pro 875B (drivers from CD, latest BIOS from Albatron's Website)
Intel P4 Northwood 3.4
ATI Radeon 9800XT Catalyst 4.4
Corsair TwinX XMS 4000 2x 256MB in Dual Channel mode (default timings)
2x Western Digital Raptor 36GB SATA in RAID 0
ThermalTake P4Spark+ Heat-sink Fan
MadDog Entertainer DVD
Antec 450w PS

Benchmark Software

Futuremark PCMark04
Aquamark 03
Aida32
SiSoft Sandra 04
SpecViewPerf 7.1
ScienceMark 2.0
WinBench 99
Unreal Tournament 2003

As the other systems supported SATA RAID, they were run with two Raptor drives in RAID-0 mode. The Intel board also used an Audigy Gamer for sound.

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Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Board Layout / Features
Page 3: Accessories / Extras
Page 4: BIOS
Page 5: Test System / Benchmarks
Page 6: Benchmarks: PCMark04 / Aquamark 03
Page 7: Benchmarks: Aida32 / Sandra 04
Page 8: Benchmarks: SpecViewPerf 7.1 / ScienceMark 2.0
Page 9: Benchmarks: Winbench 99 / UT2k3
Page 10: Overclocking / Conclusion

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2 User Comments

1 - Posted by EmoMakesMeCry on May 16, 2004 - 12:48 pm

i have an Albatron 865PE Pro, not the lite variant, and i had a bit of a problem with it.

when i bought it with a processor i got a great deal on it so i figured, why not? but i also bought a SATA hard drive to use as my one and only drive since the board had the support for it. bad news when i put my machine together...the board's SATA ports wouldn't work. so i snooped around online looking for answers and guess what?....the board needed a bios update for the SATA ports to be functional...

makes me wish i had stuck with Abit like i had intended to.

but i must say, my albatron is excellent for overclocking.

2 - Posted by Nick on May 17, 2004 - 11:17 am

I had the same problem, although I won't say the SATA ports 'didn't work', I simply couldnt boot. I could see them in the bios, but when I had the system set to enhanced, it wouldnt boot. Leaving the system in legacy mode (as for linux or older OS's) the system would boot.

Same as you though, upgrade the bios and it works fine. A little too fine for an $80 board ;) I can honestly say I was surprised at how well the board worked being so cheap compared to the boards I was comparing it too.

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