Jetway Kuroshio BI-100 P35 review

And so the board came in a spotted box :) Though it's a eye cacher, sadly inside it we find less than expected for such type of hardware.

Yep, just this:

• 1xSATA cable
• 1хIDE cable
• 1х I/O Shield
• Booklet, driver disk and Chinese calendar for 2008г. :)

Nowadays one more SATA cable as well as one MOLEX to SATA Power Cable sure could come in handy and it'll hardly raise the price with more than 2 bucks...

All in all the motherboard itself looks more than fine, Jetway sure made sure it looks like much more expensive one. Such inscriptions as the ones on the picture below we've seen on the legendary for every overclocker DFI Lanparty series motherboards, as on other pricey motherboards with special names.

Hardware installation did not surprise us with anything, the motherboard passed “POST" immediately, recognized with ease the 2x1GB SuperT DDR2-800, Pentium E2140(L2), a SATA2 hard drive and a SATA writer.

Installing OS was without problem too and after the machine was ready for work I began to study the BIOS more carefully. This is the place to note that the motherboard came with the initial BIOS version, while on the Jetway website you can find newer one, that is to be used to fix a certain A4-tech keyboard mishaps.

The motherboard is very similar to it's kin. Standard HD AUDIO ALC888, gigabyte NIC, 4 USB ports on the back + up to 8 more through the headers on the motherboard, 4 DDR2 slots, 4 SATA-II and a single IDE. More or less all the things the common user needs. The board isn't mATX format, as it might be expected of such budget solutions and that's why it feels "roomy". It's relatively dig surface sure makes it comfortable to work with. Slots are enough both in number and type and the board design does allow you to use a videocard with bigger cooler without loosing access to the precious (lately) PCI slots.