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GIGABYTE: GA-8GNXP-D

GA-8GNXP-D
Intel 915G Chipset


Supports LGA775 Intel® Pentium® 4 processor FSB800 with HT technology
Supports Dual Channel DDR2 memory architecture
Experience revolutionary graphics with the new PCI-Express x16 interface
Features GIGABYTE patented U-Plus D.P.S.
Features dual Gigabit Ethernet port connection
Features PCI-Express x1, Serial-ATA, and IEEE1394b interfaces



Overview
Introduction
GA-8GNXP-D the flagship motherboard for GIGABYTE 8Σ series offers a complete range of features dedicated to satisfying all computing needs. Experience next-generation processing with the latest LGA 775 Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading Technolgy! The GA-8GNXP-D supports DDR2 main memory. Along with enhanced performance is additional system stability with the GIGABYTE Universal Plus Dual Power System (U-Plus D.P.S.). U-Plus D.P.S. is a revolutionary eight-phase power circuit designed to withstand varying electrical current levels, ensuring future processor upgrades.
The GA-8GNXP-D provides an broad range of peripheral connections by offering IEEE 1394b and USB 2.0 for high-speed data transfer, and high speed Serial ATA for connection of storage devices. The GA-8GNXP-D also offers multimedia advancements through PCI-Express for outstanding graphics output, doubling that of the current AGP8X interface. For improved networking, Dual Gigabit LAN provides simultaneous WAN and LAN connection at a blazing fast network connection speed of up to 1,000 Mbps for both network types. Along with top-notch hardware is the addition of the GIGABYTE Shieldware. Shieldware includes 8 unique software feature elements that are easy to use and focused on making computing both simple and straightforward. Finally to round off the GA-8GNXP-D is home theater-quality sound with your PC using Intel® High Definition Audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication input, and multi-streaming capability.
Intel® 915G Express Chipset
The new Intel® 915G Express chipset with Hyper-Threading Technology delivers significant perfomance gains with variety of new generation architectures including dual-channel DDR2 main memory, PCI-Express inteface, Intel® Matrix Storage tecnology for improving storage reliability and performance.
Supports LGA 775 Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
With new 90nm technology, the world's most advanced chip-making process, it delivers significant gains in performance through the combination of lower-power transistors, strained silicon, high-speed copper interconnects and a new low-k dielectric material.
Dual Channel DDR2 533 Memory Architecture
The new DDR2 main memory architecture delivers maximum bandwidth of 8.5GB/s in dual channel mode, providing highest performance for high memory resource demand applications.
PCI Express Interface
Revolutionary PCI Express interface provides scalable bandwidth for multi-purpose usage. PCI-E x16 interface delivers the utmost graphics experience, PCI-E x1interface delivers twice the bandwidth of PCI interface up to 250MB/s for new generation I/O peripheral devices.
GIGABYTE Patented Technology Universal-Plus Dual Power System 2 (U-Plus D.P.S.)
U-Plus D.P.S. is a revolutionary eight-phase power circuit designed to withstand varying electrical current levels, ensuring future processor upgrades.
Dual Gigabit LAN connectivity
Dual Gigabit LAN provides simultaneous WAN and LAN connection at a blazing fast network connection speed of up to 1,000 Mbps for both network types.
IEEE 1394b Firewire Interface
Connect your digitial audio/video appliances such as digital video camcorders, storage peripherals, MP3 players and more. With new IEEE 1394b interface that features data transfering speed of up to 800Mbps, 2x faster than previous IEEE 1394a interface.
Serial ATA Interface
Serial ATA provides scalable performance for today and tomorrow. With up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, Serial ATA is faster than current Parallel ATA, while providing 100% software compatibility.With Intel Matrix Storage technology, RAID 0, 1 may be configured for optimal performance and reliability.
GIGABYTE Patent DualBIOS™
DualBIOS™ prevents BIOS from virus attacks or firmware damage and provides a double security to the system that assures the PC stability.
Intel High Definition Audio
Experience home theater-quality sound with your PC using Intel® High Definition Audio for enhanced multi-channel audio, improved voice and communication input, and multi-streaming capability.
GIGABYTE ShieldWare
A solid pack of unique software features focused on performing important system essentials with speed and ease. Find out what these great features can do for your system!

Specifications
CPU
  1. LGA 775 for Pentium® 4 Processor
Chipset
  1. Northbridge : Intel® 915G
  2. Southbridge : Intel® ICH6R
  3. Integrated Peripherals :
    1. T.I. IEEE1394b controller
    2. Broadcom PCIe X1 Gigabit Ethernet controller
    3. Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
    4. Realtek ALC880 audio codec
    5. Cypress CY7C6564D USB2.0 hub
    6. Silicon Image Sil3114 controller
Front Side Bus
  1. 800 / 533 MHz FSB
Memory
  1. Type: Dual Channel DDR2 533/400 Max capacity: 4 GB
  2. DIMM slots: 6 DIMMs*
    *Note: Through GIGABYTE innovation of supporting 6 DIMMS memory on Intel chipset motherboard. However, due to chipset limitations there will be a frequency downgrade of memory modules when 6 DIMMs are fully loaded.
Internal I/O Connectors
  1. 8 x Serial ATA connectors (4 by ICH6R, 4 by Sil3114)
  2. 4 x USB 2.0 connectors (7 ports by cable)
  3. 1 x FDD connector
  4. 1 x UltraDMA 100/66 IDE
  5. 2 x IEEE 1394b connectors (3 ports)
  6. 1 x COM port connector
  7. 3 x cooling fan pin headers
  8. 1 x CD in
  9. 1 x 24-pin ATX Power connector
  10. 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
Expansion Slots
  1. 1 x PCIe X 16 slot
  2. 3 x PCIe X 1 slots
  3. 2 x PCI slots
  4. 1 x DPS slot
Back Panel Connectors
  1. 4 x USB 2.0 ports
  2. 2 x RJ45 LAN ports
  3. 2 x S/P DIF jacks (In/Out)
  4. 6 x Audio jacks (7.1-Ch Out / Line-in / Mic in)
  5. 1 x LPT port
  6. 2 x PS/2 ports(Keyboard/Mouse)
Form Factor
  1. ATX
  2. 30.5cm x 24.4cm
H/W Monitoring
  1. ITE 8712F
  2. System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
  3. Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, power-in voltage, CPU voltage, and fan speed.
BIOS
  1. 2 x 4M bit flash ROM
Other Features
  1. Dual power system module : U-Plus D.P.S. Included
  2. C.I.A. 2 (CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2)
  3. M.I.B. 2 (Memory Intelligent Booster 2)
  4. EasyTune™ 5
  5. M.I.T. (Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker)
  6. Download Center
  7. S.O.S. (System Overclock Saver)
  8. C.O.M. (Corporate Online Management)
  9. Miracle of Xpress3
Bundle Software
  1. Norton Internet Security 2004
    1. Norton Anti Virus™
    2. Norton™ Personal Firewall
    3. Norton™ Privacy Control
    4. Norton™ Parental Control
    5. Norton™ Spam Alert
  2. GIGABYTE Windows Utility Manager
  3. Adobe Acrobat Reader

Driver

Audio
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2008/09/16Realtek Function driver for Realtek Azalia audio chip (Including Microsoft UAA Driver in English edition)
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows XP 64Bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
R2.0034.78 MB
Download from ...2006/10/03Microsoft UAA (Universal Audio Architecture) Bus driver (Full Multi-language version )
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Server 2003
5.10.0.501029.87 MB
Download from ...2004/07/19Intel High Definition Audio
O.S. : Linux
1.1.2a0.04 MB

Chipset
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2007/12/26Intel INF installation
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows XP 64Bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
8.3.1.10092.01 MB

LAN
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2007/02/08Marvell Lan driver
O.S. : Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows XP 64Bit,Windows Server 2003
8.61.3.37.86 MB
Download from ...2005/10/13BroadCom PCIe Gigabit lan driver
O.S. : Windows Server 2003
8.22.1.00.36 MB
Download from ...2005/04/28BroadCom PCIe Gigabit LAN driver
O.S. : Windows XP 64Bit
Beta:8.1441.01 MB
Download from ...2005/02/15BroadCom PCIe Gigabit lan driver
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP
7.9714.96 MB

SATA RAID
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2007/04/27Intel Intel ICH6R/ ICH7R/ ICH7DH/ ICH8R (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
O.S. : Windows XP 64Bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
6.2.0.20020.27 MB
Download from ...2007/04/27Intel ICH6R/ ICH7R/ ICH7DH/ ICH8R SATA RAID Driver
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows XP 64Bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 64bit,Window XP Media Center Edition,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit),Windows Vista x64 (64-bit)
6.2.1.100211.69 MB
Download from ...2007/04/27Intel ICH6R/ ICH7R/ ICH7DH/ ICH8R (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32bit,Windows Vista x86 (32-bit)
6.2.0.20020.19 MB
Download from ...2005/06/07Silicon Image 3114 SATA Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows NT
1.0.2.50.13 MB
Download from ...2005/06/07Silicon Image 3114 RAID Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
O.S. : Windows NT,Windows 2000,Windows XP
1.0.0.10.12 MB
Download from ...2005/06/06Silicon Image 3114 RAID Driver
O.S. : Windows NT,Windows 2000,Windows XP
1.0.0.12.24 MB
Download from ...2005/06/06Silicon Image 3114 SATA Driver
O.S. : Windows NT,Windows 2000,Windows XP
1.0.2.51.47 MB
Download from ...2005/06/03Silicon Image RAID utility for 3112, 3114, and 3512
O.S. : Windows 9x,Windows Me,Windows 2000,Windows XP
1.0.0.191.68 MB
Download from ...2005/04/28Silicon Image 3114 (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)
O.S. : Windows XP 64Bit
Beta:1.0.0.00.95 MB
Download from ...2005/04/28Silicon Image 3114 SATA Base Driver
O.S. : Windows XP 64Bit
Beta:1.0.0.30.94 MB

VGA
DownloadDateDescriptionVersionSize
Download from ...2008/12/03Intel VGA (865/915/945) Driver
O.S. : Windows XP 64Bit
6.14.10.492611.24 MB
Download from ...2008/12/03Intel VGA (915/945) Driver
O.S. : Windows 2000,Windows XP
6.14.10.492614.97 MB



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