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One of the most important aspects of
the i810 based chipsets is its ability to do 2D/3D graphics.  The i810
is actually based up-on the core of the i752 graphics chip. This chip
would have been the follow up of the i740 graphics card but was
cancelled due to lack of sales. It has a dual rendering pipeline and
the performance should be a bit faster then the i740 and thus should
be ranging on the speed of a TNT (1) card or 3dfx Banshee based card.
When the i810 boots up it'll reserve 1 MB of main memory for the basic
display buffer. As soon as GUI (graphical user interface ->
Windows) has started the controller will reserve 4Mb frame buffer, 2Mb
command buffer and 4Mb of Z-Buffer. Highest 3D resolution is 1280x1024
in 16 bit. Highest 2D resolution is 1600x1200 in 256 colors.
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Beware the i810 is not a gamers dream
if you are a hardcore gamer, however it will give you some nice
playability in games with a very decent framerate.
Another 'include' in the i810 is an
option that was born out of the i752 also, the ability to do hardware
motion compensation for MPEG2-decoding. So the i810 can play DVD's
pretty well !
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Motherboard
Specifications
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| CPU
Interface |
Intel
Celeron PPGA 370 Pins |
| Chipset |
Intel
810 |
| L2
Cache |
N/A
(on-chip) |
| Form
Factor |
Baby
AT |
| Bus
Speeds |
66
/ 75 / 83 / 100 / 133 / 150 |
| Clock
Multipliers |
3x
- 7.5x |
| Voltages
Supported |
Auto
Detect |
| Memory
Slots |
2
168pin DIMM Slots
512Mb max. |
| Expansion
Slots |
1
AMR Slots
0 AGP Slot
3 PCI Slots
0 ISA Slots (1 Shared with PCI) |
| BIOS |
Award
green P&P |
The mobo gives us some very nice (read: hot) new options like Ultra DMA-66 (the
ability to read 66Mb/sec with a compatible Ultra DMA-66 Hard
drive)
Ultra DMA-66 Bus master IDE
Synchronous Ultra DMA mode provides data transfer rates up-to a
maximum of 66Mb per second. Which roughly is twice the data rate of
enhanced IDE or ATA-2. Ultra ATA requires a special (included) hd
cable. Although the cable has 40 pins, it actually uses 80 wires. TIP
- always connect the cable in this fashion: Blue to mainboard,
Gray
to slave and black to master.
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