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Product: Intel D815EPEA2 & Celeron
850/100MHz Review
Company: Intel
Website:
http://www.intel.com
Estimated Street Price: $107
& $138
Review By: Julien
Jay
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Final
Results and Overall Mark
Well we have reached the end of the review. Here are my final comments, notes and grades for
the Intel D815EPEA2 Motherboard and Intel Celeron 850MHz CPU.
Final
Comments
How
It Grades |
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Installation:
80%
Mobo performance: 85%
CPU performance: 75%
Features: 80%
Audio Features: 85%
Reliability: 85%
Drivers Quality: 90%
Price: 90%
Users' Guide: 75%
Overall: 82%
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This
motherboard is definitely dedicated for cool geeks and will bring them the
performance and the reliability they can expect from the chip giant. It's
robust, flexible and easy to setup for a day-to-day use in peace of mind.
Once again Intel proves its ability to manufacture the most solid and
reliable motherboards. The Celeron is presented by Intel as a low cost
processor for office computers: but as it is based on the same micro
architecture than the Pentium III you’ll get excellent performance for a
really affordable price. At least but not last the fact the Celeron
processor is supported by the awesome i815EP chipset ensures you to get a
high level of reliability, performance and availability especially when
combined to Intel robust motherboards. The latest Intel Celeron 850MHz
teams up with the D815EPEA2 motherboard from Intel and is the ultimate
platform for advanced office users, family users, and other games’ addicts
that want to save money without sacrificing performances.
Specs
& Package |
Overall
Score |
82% |
Version
Reviewed |
Intel D815EPEA2 Motherboard
Intel Celeron 850MHz |
Release
Date |
Available
Now! |
In
the Box |
1 D815EPEA2 Moterboard,
1 User's guide,
1 Drivers CD. |
The
Good Points |
Top i815EP chipset with AGP4x & UDMA
100 support,
Affordable CPU & Mobo,
Evolutive Architecture (up to PIII 1,13GHz),
Support for PIII CPUs,
Great Sound Circuit,
Outstanding drivers,
Good performance,
Rock solid platform,
Security software provided. |
The
Bad Points |
No COM2 port,
Depending on the D815EPEA2 revision there may be no CNR port,
No SPDIF out on the CNR card nor on the mobo output,
No Joystick MIDI port,
No mobo LED status indicator,
With Celeron processors the SDRAM is clocked only at 100MHz,
Few SSE optimized software,
No support for upcoming Tualatin CPUs. |
Reviewers
PC Setup |
Celeron 850 MHz
Intel D815EPEA2 Motherboard
Windows
2000 Professional SP1
256 MB PC133 SDRAM
Seagate 20GB UDMA 66 7200rpm HD
DirectX 8.0a
17" Sony Trinitron Monitor
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 64Mb
Pinnacle
Studio DV
Microsoft
Natural Keyboard Pro
Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
DVD Goldstar 8120b |
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