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M6PF41-1 — HP Motherboard with Dual CPU Socket PGA370 (Refurbished)
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DescriptionDownloadsCPUs
Form factor
Micro-ATX (max 244 x 244mm)
PSU connector
ATX 1.
x (20-pin ATX)
Chipset
Intel 815E (Solano-2)
Chipset parts
Intel 82815E (GMCH)
Intel 82801BA (ICh3)
Dimensions
Unknown
CPU socket
Socket 370 (PGA370)
CPU platform
Pentium III (Tualatin) (FC-PGA 2)
Supported FSB speeds
66MHz, 100MHz, 133MHz
Supported RAM size
512 MB
Supported RAM type
SDR UDIMM
Video chipset
Intel 815 (i752)
(32MB max VRAM)
Audio chipset
ADI SoundMAX AC97 (AD1885)
I/O ports
1x
Floppy interface
1x
Gameport
2x
IDE interface
1x
PS/2 keyboard
1x
PS/2 mouse
1x
Parallel
2x
Serial
4x
USB 1.x
1x
VGA
Expansion slots
3x
32-bit PCI
1x
Universal AGP
Notes
Presario 4403US, 4000T series, 5000T series, 4000LA, 5300US, 5301RSH, 5310CA, 5320CA, 5405US, 5420CA, 4406RSH, 4410CA, 4410US
Last updated 2022-12-01T10:08:32Z
Drivers:
5 entries
Language
Media type
OS Compatibility
Name
Version
1x
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility
6.
3.0.1007
1x
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility
3.20.1008
1x
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Intel i752, 810 and 815 Series Graphics Driver (9x)
4.13.01.3196
1x
Windows NT 4.0
Intel i752, 810 and 815 Series Graphics Driver (NT 4)
4.03.1381.3196
1x
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Intel i752, 810 and 815 Series Graphics Driver (2000/XP)
6.
13.01.3196
BIOS images:
1 file
Manuf.
POST String
Note
Core Ver.
BIOS Ver.
AMI
63-1029-009999-00101111-040201-SOLANO-AAWF0040
040201
1.00
Compaq
686P9
board ID 07A8h
Documentation:
1 entry
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TR100 User Manual
(English)
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Dual Processor Socket 370 Boards / Motherboards
A few years ago, dual processor systems cost quite a lot and were used mainly in servers and workstations. At present, such a solution also cannot be called very cheap, but, nevertheless, it will cost so much already.
ABIT was the first to change the situation with the release of BP6. The ability to use Celeron processors has made this board an inexpensive two-processor solution for average users.
However, having two processors is not enough, RAID support is also very important. Not too long ago, SCSI RAID cards alone cost more than a low-end computer. Now the situation is completely different — many motherboards have integrated RAID controllers. Of course, such an integrated IDE RAID controller can’t match the performance of an Ultra160 SCSI card with 32MB of cache, but it’s still better than nothing.
This article discusses three dual-processor Socket 370 boards based on the «VIA Apollo Pro 133A 69» chipset.
4″ boards from ASUS, ABIT and MSI. All these boards are quite different from each other, not to mention the different options within the same model line…
Short board specifications:
ABIT VP6
| Processor: | Dual Pentium III |
| Chipset: | VIA Apollo Pro 133A 694 Northbridge VT82C694X Southbridge VT82C686B |
| Slots: | 1xAGP 5xPCI |
| Memory: | 4 DIMM slots Maximum capacity — 2GB ECC support |
| BIOS: | Award Plug and Play BIOS SoftMenu III System |
| I/O ports: | HighPoint HPT-370 RAID Controller Dual Channel Ultra ATA-100 RAID levels 0, 1 and 0+1 are supported Ultra ATA-100 supported Two channels Ultra ATA-100/66/33 4xUSB ports |
ASUS CUV4X-D
| Processor: | Dual Pentium III |
| Chipset: | Northbridge VT82C694X Southbridge VT82C686B |
| Slots: | 1xAGP Pro/AGP 4x 5xPCI |
| BIOS: | Award 2MB BIOS ChipAway Virus (TCAV) |
| Memory: | 4 DIMM slots Maximum capacity — 4GB Virtual Channel Memory (VCM) supported |
| I/O ports: | 2xUltra ATA-100/66/33 4xUSB ports IrDA |
MSI 694D Pro
| Processor: | Two Pentium IIIs or one Celeron |
| Chipset: | Northbridge VT82C694X Southbridge VT82C686A |
| Slots: | 1xAGP 5xPCI 1xCNR |
| Memory: | 4 DIMM slots Maximum capacity — 2GB Advanced ECC Memory Controller Supported by VCM |
| BIOS: | Award Plug and Play BIOS VIA Advanced Power Management Features |
| I/O ports: | 694D Pro-A has a PromiseATA-100 controller, 694D Pro-AR — Promise ATA-100 and RAID Controller 2xUltra ATA-100/66/33 2xUltra ATA 66/33 4xUSB ports IrDA |
Description
All of these boards have a VT82C694X northbridge, on which a heatsink is installed on ASUS and ABIT boards.
MSI did not install a heatsink on the northbridge chip, which reduces overclocking capabilities.
The northbridge chips of the boards are identical, but not the southbridge. While the VP6 and CUV4X-D use the 686B chip, the 694D Pro uses the older 686A without ATA-100 support.
Hard drives on these boards are also connected in different ways: on the ABIT board they can be connected either to a HighPint HPT-370 RAID controller or to a simple IDE controller. On the MSI board, hard drives can be connected either to a Promise ATA-100 RAID controller or, as in the case of VP6, to a regular IDE controller.
But the ASUS board does not support RAID, so you will have to limit yourself to only two ATA-100 connectors, which may not be enough if you have several hard drives and CD-ROMs. The CUV4X-D test board had only two IDE connectors, but ASUS also offers a CUV4X-LDS model with integrated LAN and Ultra160 SCSI. You can imagine the price… By the way, the board clearly shows where the SCSI controller should be installed.
Now a few words about the design. One of the biggest drawbacks is poorly placed capacitors, which can seriously degrade cooling. The most successful arrangement of capacitors is on the ABIT board.
The MSI board uses 1500 and 2700 uF capacitors, and they are placed in a very clunky way. But even this is not the main problem — the inductors (small green rings) and the power connector are located too close to the processor sockets.
The ASUS board has a slightly better arrangement of capacitors — not very good, but there are practically none near the processor sockets. Practically — does not mean that it is not at all, two small ones can still create a problem.
Of all these boards, the ASUS board stands out the most. First, it has an AGP Pro slot. Also on the board is a block of dip-switches for setting up the system. Another interesting feature of the CUV4X-D is the power-on LED, an LED that will remind you that it would be a good idea to turn off the power before gutting the system.
Interestingly, the ASUS board does not have an onboard CPU terminator. If you use only one processor on the board, you will need to disable the second processor socket, the necessary device is included with the board.
The MSI 694D Pro has fewer features than, say, the CUV4X-D, but a few are worth mentioning nonetheless. Information LEDs have always been a hallmark of MSI boards, and the 694D Pro is no exception. These things will report all the problems and no longer need to guess what the squeal from the speaker means or why the system does not start. Not only that — the LEDs that light up in various configurations will also report that the video card is installed incorrectly or even that the lithium battery on the motherboard is dying.
All this is great, but there is one problem — these LEDs are so badly placed that it’s quite problematic to see what configuration is lit up there, even with the case open.
But the ABIT board can hardly boast of any interesting features besides its standard SoftMenu system and the almost flawless design of ABIT boards.
I remember, in the days of BP6, it was possible to install two Celerons into it and overclock them to 550MHz — for those times the performance was amazing.
Overclocking capabilities on these boards will most likely not be the same as on BP6 due to the use of Pentium III processors instead of cheap Celeron (and not only because of this).
That’s right — for example, on the ABIT VP6 board, you can’t adjust the voltage of each processor separately, as it was possible to do on the BP6. Regression? True, on VP6 you can set any system bus frequency from 66 to 150MHz — a step forward compared to BP6, and control the PCI and AGP buses.
On the CUV4X-D, the FSB frequency cannot be changed as flexibly as on the VP6, frequencies from 66 to 166MHz are available in 2MHz steps. But what is really missing is the ability to change the processor voltage, which can interfere with overclocking.
The MSI 694D Pro has nothing to brag about at all — there is only the possibility of changing the system bus frequency (with poor capabilities compared to ABIT and ASUS boards) and the processor voltage.
When changing the FSB frequency, the PCI bus frequency is displayed next to it, but there is no possibility to change the divider.
Testing
Test stand:
| Processor: | 2xPentium III 933MHz |
| System board: | ABIT VP6, ASUS CUV4X-D, MSI 694D Pro |
| Memory: | 128MB Mushkin PC133 CAS2 SDRAM |
| Hard disk: | 20GB Western Digital 205BA ATA-66 |
| Video card: | ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 Ultra |
| CD/DVD: | AFREEY 12x DVD-ROM |
| OS: | Windows 2000 |
| Drivers: | Detonator3 6.50, VIA 4-in-1 4.25a |
Tested with Quake III Arena, Winbench 99 1. 1, Winstone 99 1.3, SiSoft Sandra 2001, Content Creation 2000. |
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Winbench 99, Winstone 99 and Content Creation 2000
As you can see, in these tests there is no significant increase in performance when using two processors. The ASUS board only has a slight gap in the High End Disk test. However, in all tests, the MSI board has the lowest performance. When using ABIT VP6, the system failed to complete two tests from the Winstone 99 test suite.
SiSoft Sandra 2001
In almost all tests, all three boards go side by side. Interestingly, in memory bandwidth tests, the difference in performance is quite significant. The lowest performance is again with the MSI board. In fact, the results of these boards should not differ so much, because the only difference is 694D Pro from VP6 and CUV4X-D is a southbridge that can’t be the reason for low memory bandwidth.
Quake III Arena
Quake3 is currently the only gaming application that uses SMP.
To enable SMP, type r_smp 1 in the console.
ABIT VP6 is the undoubted leader in Quake3 — the performance on this board, even when using one processor, is higher than on the MSI 694D Pro with two processors.
At High quality settings, the memory bandwidth and video card are heavily stressed, so the results of dual-processor systems are even lower than when using a single processor.
Terminals
The most expensive of these boards is the ASUS CUV4X-D, which costs about $160. ABIT VP6 is cheaper by 10 bukazoids, and for MSI 694D Pro they ask for $120. But if a user decides to purchase a Pentium III-based SMP system, one can imagine the price of processors, so such a user is unlikely to save on the motherboard.
In terms of design and performance, the best choice would be ABIT VP6, in Quake3 this board has the best results. Although 10-20 fps is honestly a pretty small performance increase when using a second processor.