Abit KT7-RAID

This motherboard in my opinion, is the best possible choice that anyone can make when they are looking for a solution for Socket A Athlon and Duron processors. The great thing about AMD's latest offerings is that people can upgrade from old PII/K6-2/MII systems and get a big speed increase upto Duron machines and then can upgrade safely using the same motherboard and components upto an Athlon. That is what is so good about AMD converting Duron and Athlons to the same Socket A architecture. It means that AMD can rely on a large percentage of their customers business for a long time to come. While AMD can rely on companies offering brilliant boards like ABIT ...

This motherboard is fairly easy to set-up with the manual provided. It has the added bonus of software set-up - no jumpers to fiddle around with :) The RAID system works well, and all the drivers work well too, though I would advise checking the relevant sites to make sure you have the latest drivers. Be aware that you need 2 hard disks as masters, one on each channel - ABit supply you with two cables for this. It is best, if you can, to purchase too ATA-100 disks - the cables and mobo support this. (It supports ATA-66 too, but why slow down the system if you don't have to?). The only problem I came across with this board, was not with the VIA ...

I purchased this motherboard in November last year, realising that my k6-2-350 and pc chips motherboard just didn’t cut it with the more demanding 3D computer games cropping up. I use my machine mainly for gaming with my choice games being First Person Shooters such as Quake 3 arena and Half Life so an upgrade of motherboard and CPU was needed. I had heard many great reports about the latest Athlon Thunderbird CPUs and they definitely weren’t wrong. I hadn’t read many articles about a suitable motherboard to go with my newly purchased Thunderbird 850 but I had heard good things about the manufacturer ‘Abit.’ Reading the ...