Chaintech Zenith VE V915P Mainboard 

Board Layout

One thing about this board is that it is not a crowded layout. While a standard sized motherboard, the design gives the impression of it being a bit larger.

One of the things I've noticed about all of the i915 based motherboards we've seen here are the capacitors surrounding the CPU socket.

Unlike previous P4 motherboards, the capacitors all have a very low profile which is great for having a large heatsink. Also, like the other i915 boards I've seen, Chaintech's V915P uses a large passive heatsink for cooling the Northbridge chipset. 

  

However, the Southbridge is sink-less on this board.

The V915P uses DDR instead of DDR2, which is nice considering the current price of DDR2, and the memory slots are color coded for Dual Channel interface, up to 4GB.

  

Just below the memory slots are the single IDE and your FDD connectors.

Moving on, the board sports four SATA ports, directly beside the Southbridge chipset.

These are well labeled for easy installation. There are two things to take note of in this next picture. The first are the easy to read connections for your case, the power/HDD LED etc.

But above these you can see where the RAID IDE connections would normally be. In an effort to make a leaner less expensive motherboard, Chaintech has foregone the RAID option with the V915P.

Gigabit LAN is becoming more and more common place on motherboards today, as is the use of Marvell's LAN controller chip to implement it.

  

And finally the Rear I/O panel which contains the onboard LAN port as well as four USB ports, onboard sound, PS/2 and serial ports. 
 

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