Intel D845EBT Motherboard Drivers

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Date Added: Oct 2008 / Publisher: Intel

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The new D845EBT shows Intel sailing into uncharted water as this motherboard has features never previously seen on an Intel desktop board. Intel has rolled up their collective sleeves and is seen once again working in conjunction with Analog Devices to further enhance your audio experience via the highly impressive SoundMax Cadenza package which I will discuss in detail later in the review. Right off the bat I have to say this is possibly the best Intel desktop board to date and should prove to be a winning product for them in the open market.

Sizing in at 12.00 inches by 8.20 inches(304.80 millimeters by 208.28 millimeters) and built on a six-layer olive green PCB, the D845EBT will fit into most standard ATX or larger enclosures that have the interchangeable rear I/O shield option. This is necessary as the motherboard has a slightly modified rear I/O and comes with its own shield to ease compatibility issues. The rear I/O offers the following inputs, four USB 2.0 ports, one IEEE 1394, one COM, one parallel port, a 10/100 LAN port, and all of your digital/analog audio connectors.

Intel's 845E chipset consists of the following devices, an Intel 82845E Memory Controller Hub (MCH) with Accelerated Hub Architecture (AHA) bus, an Intel 82801DB I/O Controller Hub (ICH4) with AHA bus, and the Firmware Hub (FWH). The MCH is a centralized controller for the system bus, the memory bus, the AGP bus, and the Accelerated Hub Architecture interface. The ICH4 is a centralized controller for the D845EBT's I/O paths. The FWH provides the nonvolatile storage of the BIOS. This component combination provides the chipset interfaces functionality.

There have been two releases of the Socket 478 line of P4 CPU's; one based on the 400MHz Quad Piped FSB and the other on the newer 533MHz FSB specifications. Recently Intel has released a Celeron CPU in the Socket 478 configuration running at a 400MHz FSB, the same speed as the earlier P4. The D845EBT supports the entire line of Socket 478 processors and leaves a wide array of system configurations possibilities for the end users budget or need. The only real sacrifice in using the Celly as we call it around the lab is its lack of L2 cache that can affect the systems multitasking ability.

For a while Intel was starting to alienate their fans by going in an all RAMBUS direction that was gratefully nipped in the bud making way for boards that support the more affordable and available DDR SDRAM. The D845EBT has two DIMM sockets and supports unbuffered, unregistered single-sided or double-sided 2.5 V (only) 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts. You can use both Non-ECC and ECC DDR 200/266/333(The chipset does not officially support 333 although you can use them) DIMMs from a 64 to 2GB configuration with features including (SPD) Serial Presence Detect and (STR) Suspend To Ram capabilities.

The D845EBT is the first board I have seen with both the standard dual ATA100 controllers and a Promise RAID controller built on-board. The Promise Technology PDC20267 is a PCI bus-mastering ATA controller of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The controller supports up to four UDMA or EIDE 100/66/33 drives, RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0+1 (striping, then mirroring). The controller also offers the user the ability to hot swap failed mirrored drives a great feature for the person in need of constant system backup with a minimum of down time.

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