OcPrices.com havs released a review of the Abit BH7 motherboard

The 845D chipset from Intel and it's subsequent iterations have played an integral part in taking the Pentium 4 from being the laughing stock that it once was to being without a doubt, the dominant platform currently available. Whilst the 850 was fast, it used unpopular - and at the time - hideously expensive RDRAM, with the only other option being the cripplingly slow SDRAM 845 chipset. When DDR was finally accepted by Intel, bandwidth was naturally increased two-fold. Asynchronous timings came later and it wasnt long before the 845 was within a couple of percent of its RDRAM cousin. With the introduction of faster and faster ram, as well as quicker and quicker chips, the 845 has persevered and, if anything, has become the most well liked chipset since the 440BX all those years ago.

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