Review of the Albatron KM18G Pro - Motherboard Specifications

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Specifications

CPU

• Supports Socket 462 (Socket A)AMD Athlon XP/ Athlon/ Duron and Barton processors.

SPeeD

• 200/266/333 MHz Front Side Busfrequency

• 33MHz, 32 bit PCI interface (PCI2.2 compliant)

• 66MHz AGP 3.0 compliant interfacethat supports 4X/8X data transfer modes (1.5V only)

Chipset

• Northbridge Chip - NVIDIA nForce2Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP)

• Southbridge Chip NVIDIA nForce2Media and Communications Processor (MCP)

• I/O Controller - Winbond W83627HF

• AC'97 Codec - RealtekALC650

• LAN PHY Chip - ICS1893AF

• 1394 Controller - TI TSB41AB2

DRAM Memory

• Supports DDR333 (PC2700) andDDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM

• Supports DDR400 if onboardgraphics engine is not used

• Supports 64 MB/ 128 MB/ 256 MB/512 MB/ 1 GB unbuffered & non-ECC DIMM modules

• Supports memory modules with atotal capacity of 3 GB

• Supports 128 bit DualDDR MemoryArchitecture with a total capacity of 2 GB

• Supports only x8, x16 DRAMs DDRDIMMs

Green Functionality

• Supports Phoenix Award BIOS powermanagement functionality

• Wakes from power saving sleepmode with any keyboard or mouse activity

Shadow RAM

• Equipped with a memory controllerproviding shadow RAM and support for ROM BIOS

Bus Slots

• 1 AGP slot (1.5V only)

• Three 32-bit PCI bus slots

Flash Memory

• Supports flash memoryfunctionality

• Supports ESCD functionality

Hardware Monitor Function

• Monitors CPU and System fan speeds

• Monitors System voltages

Infrared

• Supports IrDA Version 1.0 SIRProtocol with a maximum baud rate of up to 115.2 Kbps

• Supports SHARP ASK-IR Protocolwith maximum baud rate of up to 57600 bps

Universal Serial Bus

• Supports USB 2.0 Enhanced HostController Interface (EHCI) and dual USB 1.1 Open Host ControllerInterface (OHCI)

• Supports 400/ 200/ 100 Mbpsserial data rates

I/O Facilities

• One multi-mode Parellel Portcapable of supporting the following specifications:

• 1.Standard & Bi-directional Parallel Port

• 2.Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP)

• 3.Extended Capabilities Port (ECP)

• Supports two serial ports, 16550UART (one on back panel and one on front panel)

• Supports Infrared DataTransmission using IrDA

• Supports PS/2 mouse, PS/2keyboard, and one Game Port

• Supports 360 KB, 720 KB, 1.2 MB,1.44 MB and 2.88 MB floppy disk drives

LAN PHY Chip

• Supports 100/ 10 Mb per second

Integrated TV-Out

• Supports display resolutions upto 1024 x 768

IDE Facilities

• Supports Ultra ATA 133/ 100/ 66/33 Ultra 6-0/ DMA 2-0 and PIO 4-0 modes

• Supports IDE interface with CD-ROM

• Supports high capacity hard drives

• Supports installation of up to 4drives with separate IDE connectors for Primary and Secondary connectors

BIOS

• Phoenix-Award BIOS

• Supports APM 1.2

• Supports ACPI power management

Integrated Graphics Processing Unit

• 256-bit 3D and 2D graphicsaccelerator

• Supports analog VGA monitors upto 1920x1440 @ 75 Hz

Power Management

• Power On Suspend (POS) or ACPI S1support

• Suspend to DRAM (STR) or ACPI S3support

• Suspend to Disk (STD) or ACPIS4/S5 support

• ACPI 2.0 compliant

Hyper Transport Interface

• Supports up to 800 Mbps transferrates

• Support operates at 200 MHz dualedge clock mode

Sophisticated OTP (Over TemperatureProtection)

• Special design for CPU OTP

• OTP is functional when using anAthlon XP CPU

Damn! Too bad Albatron doesn't havethe full list of specifications on their site; I could have put downthe highlights and linked you
to the details!

I found itconfusing that on the box, Albatron listed support for DDR400. As it turns out, the KM18G Pro only kind ofsupports it. The fact is that KM18G Pro does not support 400 MHzCPUs. In fact, it only supports asynchronous DDR400 if you don't use theonboard graphics. I felt a bit ripped of by that.

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