DFI WT70-EC Pentium 4 mainboard
Thursday, June 28, 2001
Introduction
The WT70-EC is a Pentium 4 board designed by DFI. Ever confident of its technical abilities, DFI has seldom shied from developing products for new platforms. Because of this, the company has developed a myriad of motherboards over the years, all of which have met with the strict standards of consumers. The WT70-EC - which we'll be looking at today - is based on the i850 chipset from Intel, and thus supports RAMBUS PC600 and PC800 memory, as well as the Pentium 4 CPU. Let's take a look, shall we?
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Characteristics of the DFI WT70-EC motherboard
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CPU
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Supports Intel Pentium¨ 4 Socket 423 based processor
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Chipset
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Intel(R) 850 chipset. 82850/82801BA/82802AB
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Form factor
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ATX 30.5cm X 24.4cm
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Expansion
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5 PCI - 0 ISA - 1 CNR - 1 AGP - 4 USB
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Memory
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4 socket SRIMM de 184-pins 2Gb RDRAM PC600 ou PC800
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FSB
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66Mhz 100Mhz et 133Mhz
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Vcore adj.
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NA
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Vio adj.
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NA
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Audio chipset
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embeded into the chipset ICH2
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Configuration
The DFI WT70-EC is gifted with a totally jumperless design, meaning there isn't a single on-board jumper that relates to the configuration of the CPU.
On the other hand, only a single Overclocking function is present in the BIOS: the ability to adjust the clock multiplier.
Neither are there any options to adjust memory timings, save for the ability to set the operating frequency of the memory bus.
DFI - which is primarily known as an OEM supplier - hasn't surprised us much with the setup. When it comes right down to it, DFI's primary audience has never been the Upgrade crowd or Overclockers.
Suite: Technical details
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