Lovely board but old architecture (Abit KA7-100)

Member Name: CyrixDes

Product:	Abit KA7-100
Date:	17/12/00 (125 review reads)
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Advantages: good features, UDMA 100 support, Award bios

Disadvantages: out of date slot A architecture

This is one of ABIT's older offerings, being a motherboard for the original Athlons (i.e. in slot format and not the socket Thunderbirds).

This has all the specs on it's side and in my experiance is a very solid, stable and good performing motherboard.

This board is based on the hugely successful VIA KX133 chipset, which has largely dominated the Athlon boards. As expected it has all the advanced chipset options, supporting both PC100 and PC133.

There is plenty of scope for upgrade with this board. As i've already said there is support for PC100 and 133 SDRAM upto a maximum of 2 Gb of memory. There is an AGP slot supporting AGP 2x and also the latest 4x technology. There is 3 DIMM memory slots, 6 PCI slots and an ISA slot to support any legacy hardware that you may have. For your hard disks the board will support upto UDMA 100 which is fabulous and there is 2 USB connectors along with the normal selection of serial connectors.

The board comes with in my opinion the best bios company, Award BIOS and this includes the standard anti-virus write protect feature. For alterations to the bus speed etc..., Softmenu III is included which makes life a lot easier.

Overall here we have a lovely board that is very stable and overclockable. I would however only recommend it for people buying it second hand as the Socket A processors are hard to come by now and this is old technology against the newer TBird Socket A processors.

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