Intel Server Board N440BX Motherboard Recommendations

Intel's N440BX dual-CPU server board offers business users the performance of the ultra-fast 450MHz Pentium II processor. These processors require the board's 82440BX chipset, which supports their 100MHz system bus speed--an increase of 50% over the older system bus speed of 66MHz. Upgrading to an 82440BX system isn't just a matter of utilizing faster CPU's; data flow is sped up between the processor and each component in the system. ??The N440BX board contains four 168-pin gold-plated SDRAM DIMM sockets which support up to 512MB unbuffered or 1GB registered PC/100 100MHz SDRAM. Accepted memory module sizes are 32MB, 64MB, 128MB and 256MB (registered). Either 72-bit ECC or 64-bit non-ECC 3.3v memory is supported. Five expansion slots are available on the board: three dedicated PCI slots, one dedicated ISA slot, and one PCI/ISA shared slot. The Intel PCI/ISA/IDE Xcelerator (PIIX4E) supports up to four IDE devices, DMA controllers, two fast IDE interfaces, a multi-function PCI-to-ISA...