Foxconn 865A01-PE-6EKRS

     Just a week ago we had a look at a rather nice offering from Foxconn, their 875 chipset board. Its performance was rather on par in comparison to other 875 chipset boards but it lacked the power options that are needed or at least geared towards the Overclocker. Today at ClubOC we have another offering from Foxconn, the 865A01-PE-6EKRS, or for those not familiar with their numbering system, the newest 865PE platform. One of the first questions that you may ask is does it overclock? Well, I'll be honest, no... but it does offer a very good level of performance for the dollar, and it so far has proven to be quite a stable platform with Prescott and EE compatibility. Lets go ahead and check it out!

Specifications

CPU
Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4 processors

Front Side Bus (FSB)
800/533/400 MHz

Chipset
Intel® 865PE (MCH) + Intel® ICH5R

Memory
Dual channel, 4 x 184-pin DIMM sockets; up to 4GB DDR400 (PC3200), DDR333 (PC2700), and DDR266 (PC2100) SDRAM

Expansion Slots
1 x AGP 8X (AGP 3.0); 5 x PCI (PCI 2.3)

IDE
Dual channel UltraDMA 100/66/33, supports up to 4 devices

Serial ATA (SATA)
Dual SATA/150; supports up to 2 devices and RAID 0

Audio
Integrated Realtek ALC650, 5.1 channel (AC97 2.2); S/PDIF-out interface (header)

LAN
Integrated Intel® Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10/100/1000 Mbps

IEEE-1394
Integrated VIA VT6307; includes front I/O support (header)

Rear Panel I/O Ports
1 x PS/2 keyboard
1 x PS/2 mouse
1 x RJ45 (LAN)
4 x USB 2.0
1 x line-in, line-out, and mic (audio)
1 x parallel (SPP/BPP/ECP/EPP)
1 x COM1 (16550-compatible UART)
1 x IEEE-1394

Internal I/O Connectors
2 x USB 2.0 headers; support 4 ports
S/PDIF-out connector
1 x COM2 header
IEEE-1394 header

BIOS
4Mb flash ROM, Award BIOS, PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI

Standards/Manageability
PCI 2.3, USB 2.0; WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, WOR by PME

Special Features
Wake on ring, LAN, USB, keyboard & mouse
Support for Smart Card reader (header)
STD (Suspend-to-Disk); STR (Suspend-to-RAM)
Foxconn Super utilities- SuperStep, SuperRecovery, SuperBoot, SuperBIOS-Protect, SuperSpeed, SuperLogo, and SuperUpdate

Accessories
Support CD; user's manual; cable set -1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33, 2 x SATA, 1 x FDD

Form Factor
ATX, 12' x 9.6'