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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Abit continues to be the one and only when it comes to boards that can overclock today’s processors. The KT7 Raid is no exception, Abit’s famous soft menu III is included and has some pretty impressive features in order to get the most out of your CPU. The Socket A chips have a very high overclocking potential especially the Duron. So this type of motherboard is exactly what you need in order to get it to the top. On entering the BIOS and the soft menu III you will notice that this board will let you change the voltage the FSB (front side bus) and the multiplier. You can only change the multiplier if your Athlon/Duron isn’t locked or if you have ...  Read the complete review

I read alot of reviews before I went out and bought this board. Most of them were good, and I have to say I agree with them. When I bought the board, I got an AMD 1.2Ghz running on a 100Mhz bus. I also needed a new power supply. The first thing to make sure is that you buy a PSU that IS AMD recommended. Because I didnt! I blew four processors before I decided to change the PSU. I even changed the board after the 2nd CPU blew and it still blew the 3rd CPU! Imagine my anger. So anyway after purchasing a decent PSU, I have installed the board and the CPU and everything is fine. I had to reinstall Windows 2000 because it is very hardware specific when it installs and would ...  Read the complete review