Thread: Intel - SR440BX Slot One motherboard

As well as having a prevalents share of the processor market, Intel has a skillful small sideline in CPU board and chipsets. In the last category, the company's products have showed rather famous between desktop and server system constructors. This new card from the company is an effort to furnish an all-in-one users-oriented result for Computer vendors and end-consumers dissimilar.


With a more incorporated result than many of the CPU board recently in build, the SR440BX integrates together audio and graphics run into its compact micro-ATX layout. A 16MB nVidia RIVA TNT AGP 2x controller and a imaginatives Labs SoundBlaster PCI appear later these runs, while the completely ensemble is controlled by - expected - Intel's own 440BX chipset.


Because of the inherent AGP controller, there is no AGP slot on this CPU board, which therefore means that there should be place for an additional expansion port. There should be, but there is not. Rather, this board has only 3 PCI slots and



a distributed ISA/PCI port for expansion intentions. Although the onboard graphics and sound chips would account for 2 ports, it would have been great to look a card with still more ports in build.


The SR440BX has 2 IDE slots onboard, every of which can manage UDMA/33 drives. There is the obligatory floppy drive connection also, plus a couple of DIMM sockets quite than the common 3. Somewhat limiting, but these 2 ports even permit for up to 512MB of storage to be set up. The board can manage Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and Celeron processors with base clock velocities of 66MHz or 100MHz.


In addition to the common slots at the rear - one COM slot quite than the common 2, to create room for the VGA outturn - are audio and joystick/midi ports for the imaginative sound adapter, plus 2 USB port. Added in the box is a Quick Reference guide, a CD containing software drivers and online documentation, and a package carrying IDE/floppy cables, a processor climbing frame and a rear slot plate.