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Latest News about QDI Motherboard:

P4I875P, New i875P Mainboard by QDI

Today, Intel release its i875P (Canterwood) chipset. As one of Intel’s most important global partners, QDI released a mainboard incorporating the i875P chipset, named P4I875P at the same time. As the i875P chipset introduces support to ECC (Error Correction Coding) memory, CSA(communications streaming architecture), and PAT(Performance Acceleration Technology), this new board by QDI is designed for high-end desktop users and server users.

With the QME(Quick Magic Extension)interfacing technology particularly owned by QDI, the QDI P4I875P mainboard can be implemented as ATX or MATX form factor, directly improving the board’s extendability with interfaces like PCI and SATA. It provides FSB of 800MHz, supports Hyper-Threading technology and the incoming Prescott CPU. Duel Channel DDR and ECC memory are both supported. And the PAT(Performance Acceleration Technology)will great improve performance of memory, as well as performances of South & North Bridge. The board is designed with 1x AGP8X slot, 2x 150M S-ATA HD interfaces, 1x1G Ethernet interface, 6 xUSB 2.0 interfaces, and on-board 6-channel 20bit AC’ 97 audio.. What is most important is that this board incorporates Intel CSA(communications streaming architecture), which boosts data throughput of PCI bus from 133M to 266M. CSA stores/retrieves data directly to/from memory, which gives priority to 1G Ethernet connection (Intel 82547EI). All these factors combined with an independent 266M-network I/O port contribute to a reduced CPU workload and a better data synchronization management.

QDI P4I875P Mainboard Specifications:

• CPU:400/533/800MHz FSB,Supports Hyper-Threading and Prescott CPUs (>3.06GHz)
• Chipset: i875P/ICH5(R)
• Memory: 4 DIMM sockets, Dual Channel DDR333/400
• Expansion Slots: 3 PCIs (supports up to 5 PCIs with QME technology), 1 AGP 8X
• Hard disk: 2 Serial ATA150 (supports 4 Serial ATA with QME technology)
• USB:6 USB 2.0 interfaces
• LAN:Built-in 1G Ethernet LAN
• Audio: 6-Channel AC’ 97

Legend QDI Releases DDR333 Mainboard for Intel's latest P4 Series - P2E/333 and P8/333

On October 8, Intel releases to the public the much-talked-about i845PE/845GE chipset that supports DDR333 and upgrades DDR to 333MHz for the first time. At the same time, Legend QDI releases the DDR333 mainboards for P4 series - P2E/333 and P8/333 .

Supporting hyper-threading technology is one of the most outstanding characteristics of QDI P2E/333 and P8/333 mainboards. By integrating two logic-processing units in the same processor, the hyper-threading technology enables the CPU to execute two threadings simultaneously. By this, the unused functions of the computer can be sufficiently cultivated and the resource utilization rate of the processor increased by at least 40%. For those multi-task consumers who tend to download software while listening to music, chatting on the Internet and printing documents at the same time, they can make one personal computer do all the jobs generally completed by 1.5 or even 2 PCs. This means they can spend a cent twice. What a good deal. These two models of QDI mainboard provide a special diagnostic light for the hyper-threading feature. Through the control by BIOS and hardware, the five onboard diagnostic lights will flash one by one when the computer boots up. To start with, the Hardware Doctor executes its diagnostic function. Then all the five lights flash once at the same time, indicating that the hyper-threading function has been enabled. The status of the diagnostic lights will tell the users whether the BIOS of the mainboard has enabled the hyper-threading function (this function is enabled as default on BIOS) and whether the CPU supports such a function. Additionally, the "Hardware Doctor" that the five diagnostic lights retain will easily find the failed components of the system, making the operation an easy job.
Both mainboards support DDR333 internal memory and 533MHz external frequency, with QDI's innovative CPU three-level protection technology. It is the first time for such technology to be adopted in the computer industry to protect CPU and widely used in P2D, P2E, P8 and other products. Taking into full account the users' actual requirements, QDI's three-level CPU protection design, e.g. Level I - buzz alarming; Level II - automatic CPU slowdown; Level III - automatic shutoff, ensures the safety of the CPU. Level III - automatic shutoff may occur in two cases. One can be under WIN98 and WindowsXP where the operating system may realize the automatic shutoff. Another, before entering the operating system (e.g. in DOS), it may be done for protecting the CPU by forced shutoff. Other EASY technologies familiar to us, such as SpeedEasyII, StepEasyII, LogoEasyII, RecoveryEasyII, BootEasy and BIOS-ProtectEasy, are provided free as gifts in the package.
For each mainboard model, options with LAN or without LAN are available. The mainboards of this time are supplemented with a giganet of as large as 1Gbps, making it 100/10 faster than the LAN of 10/100Mbps. Besides, the mainboard series of this time has passed the strict giganet test given by the Intel Laboratory.
Of course, there are some differences between the said two mainboards based on different chipsets. For the P8/333 with i845GE, it integrates Intel Extreme graphics card which will fully satisfy the expectations of most 3D game players. The AGP slot can facilitate the upgrading of the video card and support the TV-OUT and LCD through plugging in the ADD card. But for the P2E/333 with i845PE, it has no integrated video card and it renders more space for the users to play.

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