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Basically, the two motherboards are the
same with one major exception. The P6BXT-A+ uses Intel’s 82443BX chipset while the
P6BAT-A+ use the Elite’s own version of the BX chipset, manufactured for the company
by VIA.
The P6BAT-A+, as well as its elder sister,
the P6BXT-A+, supports all legacy Slot1 Pentium II and Celeron processors – to the
latest Slot1 Pentium !!! and PPGA Celeron processors.
Both of these motherboards also features
jumper-less BIOS-based setup, a double-speed (2X) AGP slot, on-board Elite CMI8338 PCI
audio chip, and a maximum external clock or FSB speed of 133 MHz.
Additionally, both the P6BAT-A+ and the
P6BXT-A+ has incorporated the most advanced technologies such as LAN/Modem Power On,
Keyboard Power On/Off, SB-Link, Resetable Fuse and Hardware Monitoring.
Both of the boards have 1-4-2 AGP, PCI, and ISA slots, with
one PCI/ISA shared slot, all of which can accept full-length PCI or ISA cards. The full
ATX format of the board make enough elbow room for easier to connection of components.
| Form Factor |
ATX |
Features |
| CPU Support |
Pentium III,
Pentium II,
Celeron PPGA,
Celeron |
The P6BXT-A+
is a full-sized ATX board measuring 305x220mm and using 4-layer printed circuit board. The
P6BXT-A+ has a special design feature so that it includes a
Slot-1 processor slot and a PPGA (Plastic Pin Grid Array) Celeron Socket-PGA370 processor
socket. This feature means that you can install the mainboard with either a Pentium-III
cartridge, a Pentium-II cartridge, the SEPP (Single Edge Processor Package) Celeron
cartridge, or one of the new generation PPGA Celeron cartridges. In addition, the
mainboard supports a 66 MHz memory bus, or a 100 MHz memory bus, so you can use
inexpensive 66MHz memory chips, or higher-performance PC-100 memory chips. The board is
installed with an integrated PCI-3D sound system and has a full suite of I/O ports. Seven
expansion slots are available for system development and hardware monitoring is supported.
This board allows complete flexibility. System integrators can choose the
high-performance Slot -1 processor or the inexpensive PPGA Celeron processor according to
the system requirements and the price/performance comparison of the two kinds of
processor.
|
| Chipset |
Intel 440BX |
| Bios Vendor |
Award |
| L2 Cache |
PBSRAM |
N/A |
| Memory |
DIMM |
3 |
| SIMM |
0 |
| Max. Memory |
768MB |
| Support* |
Y |
| V G
A |
Chip |
N/A |
IO Interface |
| Memory |
N/A |
- Supports Plug and Play function
- One - EPP/ECP mode parallel port
- Two - 16550 high-speed serial I/O ports (2 connectors)
- Supports 360K~2.88M Byte, 3 Mode FDDs or LS120
- Dual PCI IDE interfaces - supports four IDE devices (PIO mode 4, DMA Mode 2, Ultra DMA
33)
- PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 mouse connectors
- ATX Power Supply Connector
- Audio Ports(Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, CD-in and game port)
- Two sets of USB connector
- Other ports
- IrDA ASKIR Header.
- Green, HDD, Power indicator LED Connectors
- CPU Fan and Chassis Fan Headers
- LAN Card Wake Up/Internal Modem Ring Wake-Up Headers
|
| Max. Memory |
N/A |
| Audio |
Chip |
PCI Audio -CMI8738 |
| Interface |
Yes |
| Slots |
ISA |
2 |
| PCI |
4 |
| ISA/PCI Shared |
1 |
| EISA |
0 |
| Power Connector |
ATX |
| RTC & Battery |
Intel 82371EB (PIIX4E) included 256 bytes CMOS SRAM |
| Regulator |
Switching |
| AGP |
Slot |
Enough of
the crap, how do they run? |
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