Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd, one of world's leading motherboardmanufacturers announces the first Intel PentiumR 4 motherboard— GA-8TX. Thismotherboard supports the 423 pin PentiumR 4 processor. Designed with cuttingedge technologies, GA-8TX is specifically designed to maximize theperformance of today's system and keeping consumers on the cutting edge ofthe computer technology.

The Intel latest Tehama chipset (850+ICH2) based GA-8TX is with AGPPro slot which supports both the AGP Pro and 4X/2X mode AGP card toprovide excellent graphical extensibility. Coming in a standard ATX form factorGA-8TX ATX desktop board provides 4 USB ports, 2 channel Ultra ATA 100/66IDE device, 5 PCI 2.2 compliant slots and 1 CNR slot.

Other features of GA-8TX as belows :
Creative PCI 128 sound on board﹕GA-8TX GA-8TX comes with on boardCreative CT5880 hardware audio and AC97 codec which enable great soundexperience without sacrificing CPU performance.

ATA 100﹕Intel latest integrated peripheral controller, ICH2, supports 2 channelUltra DMA 100 IDE devices, which drives burst data to the host at up to 100Megabytes per second and is also backward compatible with Ultra DMA 33/66.

Dual Bios﹕Our patented and award-winning technology. There are physicallytwo BIOS chips. If user's "primary" BIOS failure, the "secondary" BIOS takesover on your next system boot.

In addition, GA-8TX supports ACPI (advanced configuration power interface)and STR (Suspend to RAM), which could reduce power consumption of yourPC.