K7M Is One Of A Kind (Asus K7M)

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Product:	Asus K7M
Date:	02/12/00 (47 review reads)
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Advantages: Great Design, Very Stable, Good Overclocking Potential

Disadvantages: Poor Asus Support (They Refuse It Exists)

The first Athlon motherboards on the market were featureless, faceless drab. Early boards from MSI and Biostar features nothing but the usual configuration often seen on a cheap BX-based motherboard. The next generation, however, promises some very exciting things.

The K7M comes loaded with 5 PCI slots, 1 ISA, 1 AGP, and 3 DIMMs... this is the standard configuration for most Athlon motherboards. Other notable features include onboard audio, 4 USB ports (more on this later), an audio/modem riser port, ATA/66, JumperFree BIOS, PC 99 compliance, overclockability, and a whole truckload of capacitors.

Since the Asus K7M deviates from the Fester design by AMD (which is very primitive), it is much smaller, among other things. Problems with smaller ATX cases should disappear almost entirely with this newer design. Also, the capacitor number has been significantly increased to better meet the demands of the power-hungry Athlon processor.

I'd also like to remind you that it is possible to achieve a 220Mhz bus quite stably using the boxed retail fan with the K7M

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