ECS P4M800 PRO Motherboard

This is the best motherboard based on the reviews. First, its a nice small micro-ATX board, yet it has a ton of features. Overall this is a good AGP motherboard.

There have been many versions of this board made over the years. PRO-M was version 1.0 and then the latest is PRO-M3 is version 3.0. They just added some tweaks and more support for different CPUs.

My big complaint is the lack of DVI for the video and the lame chipset for the video. I recommend getting a cheap Nvidia card for Linux OpenGL. I chose Linux as the OS , because I didn't have an additional license for windows. I am running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. The sound and driver support were just fine since this board is so popular.

Motherboard Specs - ECS P4M800 PRO-M

• Micro-ATX Form Factor (244 x 244 mm)
• AMI BIOS with 4Mb Flash ROM
• LGA775 socket for Intel Core 2 Duo/Pentium 4/Pentium D/Celeron D processor support
• Supports Hyper-Threading Technology
• FSB 1066/800/533MHz
• Chipset: VIA P4M800Pro & VT8237R Plus
• 2x 240-pin DDR2-533/400 DIMMs support upto 2GB (single channel)
• 2x 184-pin DDR-400/333 DIMMs support upto 2GB (single channel)
• 1x AGP 8X Slot
• 3x PCI slots
• 2x Serial ATA ports (SATA), support RAID 0, 1
• IDE: 4x Ultra DMA133/100/66 connectors
• Realtek ALC655 6-Channel audio CODEC (AC'97 2.3 Spec)
• Video: S3 UniChrome Pro (64 MB shared memory window)
• LAN: VIA VT6103L 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Controller
• 4 x USB ports + 2 x internal headers
• 2 x PS/2
• 1 x RJ45 LAN
• 1 x VGA port
• 1 x Parallel port
• 1 x Serial port
• 1 x Audio port (Line-in/Line-out/Mic-in)

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