ABIT IC7 (P4-2.4B/FSB533MHz)

Pentium	/	Penitum	/	Xeon
PC2006(Xeon3.73Gx2/L2-2MBx2)	/	Benchmarking	/	Video File Study
GA-8KNXP(P4-3.4C+)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-3.2C+)	/	PC-DL(Xeon3.2G-1MB)
P4C800-E Deluxe(P4-3.2C)	/	IC7(P4-2.4B)	/	P4C800 Deluxe(P4-2.53G)
P4P800 Deluxe(P4-3.0C+)	/	8IG1000MK(P4-2.8C+)	/	D865GLCL(P4-2.8C)
D865GLCL(C-2.6G PC3200)	/	D865GLCL(C-2.6G)	/	GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.8C)
GA-8IG1000 Pro(P4-2.4C)	/	P4S800D-E Deluxe(P4-2.8C)	/	D845EBT(P4-2.53G)
P4BGL-MX(C-2.2G+)	/	D845GBV(C-1.7G)	/

ABIT IC7(P4-2.4B/FSB533MHz)

I made new PC using ABIT IC7, but it's FSB=533MHz.
ABIT IC7, Pentium4-2.40GHz, HD:120GB, RAM:PC2700 256MBx2, USB2.0 LAN, IEEE1394, Serial/Pararell Port, CD-RW, FD, Windows XP Home Edition.
It's upgradable to FSB=800MHz, PC3200x2, AGP8x, ATA & SATA RAID. It will be done later.
Actually, this motherboard is nice, but I was stucked by HD setting, it wasn't detected properly, actually, on BIOS, it looks OK, but Windows cannot be installed.
Finally, I figured that the root cause was HD jumper setting. I set "Master", but it must be "cable select". I missed the setting... I spent 2 hours to solve the problem
And also, I misunderstood about this board's function. I didn't think that some motherboards of 875P chipset don't have LAN. This board does't have it.
So, I have to add PCI LAN board after all.
Anyway, this project was done successfully.

[Reference]

Description	Price	Qty	Total
Intel Pentium 4 2.4BGHz (FSB533MHz)	$161.00	1	$161.00
KVR333X64C25/256 256MB PC2700	$33.00	2	$66.00
ABIT IC7 533/800MHz FSB (w/1394,S-RAID)	$143.95	1	$143.95
HD WD1200JB (120GB 8MB Cashe)	$123.00	1	$123.00
ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB AGP4x	$102.83	1	$102.83
Micro Advantage 52CDRW-B13 (or Verbatim VBT522452A)	$12.99	1	$12.99
FD	$14.50	1	$14.50
Case & Power Supply	$74.19	1	$74.19
Misc(Wire ties, Screws, PCI LAN board/etc)	$10.00	1	$10.00
	*PC Only*		*$708.46*
Windows XP Home Edition Retail Box Version	$246.00	1	$246.00
Allystar 15" Silver/Blue TFT LCD GM150A-SB	$235.00	1	$235.00
Keyboard & Mouse	$19.60	1	$19.60
WiFi Router & AccessPoint	$82.00	1	$82.00
Wireless Network PcCard	$59.00	2	$118.00
	*Total*		*$1,409.06*

HDBENCH Ver3.40 beta6
About memory speed, Abit IC-7 has good capability compare with ASUS P4C800 Deluxe even same memory. (Read: Asus-135024 vs Abit-133475, Write: 57269 vs 58087, R&W: 122830 vs 128780)
And I learned about 8MB cashe, I can say it's slightly advantage, but it's not so much. (Read: 2MB cashe on P4C800 XP pro-43097 vs 8MB cashe IC7 XP home-43389, Write: 44560 vs 47473, RandomR: 9402 vs 6253, RandomW 10223 vs 11415)
Performance difference by motherboard and/or OS looks more impact than just 2MB vs 8MB cashe.

Sandra2003
Regarding to the results of Sandra 2003, it looks different. Abit IC-7's is almost same as Asus P4C800 Deluxe slightly on memory, as well as HD. (Mem Int Buff: 3.308MB/s vs 3.243MB/s, Float Buff: 3.289MB/s vs 3.259MB/s and HD 26.276MB/s vs 25.989MB/s)

*HDBENCH*	2.4B
ALL	40342
Integer	55151
Float	92549
Read	133475
Write	58087
ReadWrite	128780
Rectangle	57400
Text	15726
Ellipse	10492
BitBlt	261
DirectDraw	60
Read	43389
Write	47473
RandomRead	6253
RandomWrite	11415
*SANDRA*
Dhrystone ALU (MIPS)	6356
Whetstone FPU (MFLOPS)	1387
Whetstone iSSE2 (MFLOPS)	3165
Int Buff iSSE2 (MB/s)	3308
Float Buff iSSE2 (MB/s)	3289
Drive Index (kB/s)	26276
Buffered Read (MB/s)	86
Sequential Read (MB/s)	37
Random Read (MB/s)	7
Buffered Write (MB/s)	78
Sequential Write (MB/s)	38
Random Write (MB/s)	12
Average Access Time (ms)	7

P4-2.4B