Asus K7V

Asus K7V: Brilliant!! (120 words)
by s0nix - written on 28.11.05 (Somewhat useful, 78 readings)
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WOW. I suggest people buy this Motherbaord. I recently had to upgrade because i needed more RAM and my old motherbaord would only allow 1GB I installed it in the case. Switched a few jumper switches. Installed memory graphics card sound card processor etc etc. Switched on.. No bios config needed... Lovely.. HASSLE free There is one bad thing about it. The things that hold the ram in are really cheaply made and so fragile. Whilst inserting my RAM one of the Holders just snapped off.. Luckily i was trying to insert it in the wrong RAm slot anyways (RAM SLOT 3) But besides that i will give it a thumbs up! Brilliant Motherbaord ...

Shoddy,Shoddy, Shoddy (204 words)
by - written on 02.12.00
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I have read opinions and tests on this board and decided to use it in a system I was building for someone. Installing the 800MHz Athlon and all of the opther components was a breeze - as sadi before, it really is great having the jumperless design. However, I was disappointed when the soundcard I'd installed refused to output any sound, despite the fact that there was no problems being reported in the Device Manager. Looking in the discussion groups on Asus' site I found that I wasn't the only one with problems. All Soundblaster cards had the same problem with sound, regardless of on-board audio or not. My motherboard had no onboard sound ...

Asus K7V: K7 Heaven (159 words)
by DaveManley - written on 06.10.00 (Useful, 440 readings)
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I bought a K7V board recently as I'd heard good reports. In fact good would be an understatement. It was consistently voted the best Athlon board around. In benchmarks tests ran by a leading web site it came top in 14 out of 16 speeds tests and 2nd and 3rd in the other two. The mothboard has no ISA slots and this means that it is no longer being held back by an ancient 16 bit architecture. There are plenty of PCI slots and an AGP slot, two IDE ports including a UDMA/66 one and 4 USB ports. Two as default and two with the plugging in of an extra card (supplied). There is also a slot for Asus' own internal modem card and there are on board sound ...