The Package
A cool addition in the
bundle is the included IDE cables, instead of including the standard flat
IDE cables, FIC opted for two rounded blue IDE cables resulting in a cleaner
interior and an improved air flow. Unfortunately only one SATA cable is provided
along with a power cable, if you are planning to take advantage of the SATA
RAID an extra SATA cable along with an extra power cable would have to be
purchased separately.
The FIC P4-865PE board
comes with three different expansion brackets, the first one is for the two
FireWire ports, another one for the two extra USB 2.0 ports in addition to
the 4 already on the I/O panel of the board and at last an extra audio bracket
providing the extra REAR/BASS, CENTER, OPTICAL and COAXIAL outputs for the
5.1 audio.
A detailed manual with a step by step poster is included to help install the
board and at last a FIC 1stUtilities CD coming with extra applications and
utilities is bundled.
Overclocking
If you are the hardcore
overclocker the P4-865PE is unfortunately not the best product out there today,
overclocking this board is possible but limited. Speed changes can be done
from 100MHz all the way to 233MHz in 1MHz steps. You can adjust the CPU, DDR,
AGP/PCI and AGP voltages.
For your reference here is the clocking table.
| CPU
Voltage |
1.50v
up to 1.675v |
| DRAM
Voltage |
2.5v
up to 2.8v |
| AGP
Voltage |
1.50v
up to 1.80v |
| AGP
/ PCI Clock |
66/33,
73/36, 88/48 |
Benchmarks
Intel P4 3.06Ghz 800Mhz
FIC P4-865PE Max
2X256MB DDR – Intel Reference
Seagate 2 X 120GB / SATA RAID
Radeon 9700Pro
Windows XP
Professional
| 3DMARK
2001 |
4843 |
| CC
WINSTONE 2002 |
41.9 |
| SISOFT
SANDRA 2003 MEMORY |
Float:
4448 |
| |
Int:
4442 |
Summation
After over 24 hours of testing, we found the P4-865PE Max to be quite a stable
and performing product, its currently running in one of our computers in the
office and I must say that I’m personally quite satisfied with it. There is
no doubts that the P4-865PE Max is one cool product, you will definitely get
some extra attention with its funky look inside your case at night illuminating
your room in three spinning colors, however if your are planning to push some
extra performance out of your Pentium 4 processor by overclocking it to the
extreme, there would be some better solutions on the market today.
If you are building or upgrading your current system and are looking for a
feature packed Pentium 4 solution without extreme overclocking I would strongly
suggest you to take a closer look at the FIC P4-865PE MAX.
Oleg Mitskaniouk
03.10.26
