Wednesday, January 08, 2003

Additional features

Additional features of the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra motherboard include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS2 connectors for connecting mice & keyboards, six USB 2.0 ports - two of which are located on the back panel, an integrated AC"97 sound-card, Suspend to RAM, RX/TX connectors for infrared, Smart Card Reader connectors, and start-up from the mouse, keyboard, or at a pre-set time. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature, and of voltages is also included as a standard feature of this PC99-compliant motherboard.

Below a photo of the Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra.

Installation

Installation of the GA-8PE667 is quite simple, since there is no real need to play with jumpers. Simply place the board in a case, plug in, boot-up, and drop into the BIOS to make any adjustments.

Software bundle

The installation CD includes the Intel .inf version 4.04.1007 patch, drivers for the sound-card, drivers for the RAID controller, drivers for the SmartCard controller, drivers for the USB 2.0 controller, Winbond Smart Manager, DirectX 8.1, drivers for the network controller, Intel Application Accelerator, Adobe Acrobat Reader, a digital rendition of the user's manual, Gigabyte Utilities, and many others.

Hardware bundle

The Gigabyte GA-8PE667 Ultra comes with: two 80-pin ATA100 cables, one floppy-drive cable, one backplate with four USB ports, and a backplate with numerous audio ports.

Next: Specifications.

Gigabyte GA-8PE667