Motherboards Reviews
Albatron’s a relatively newcomer to the North-American marketplace, but many of us has seen them with a different disguise: Gigabyte. Many of the engineers that jumped aboard Albatron as they launched their lineup two years ago were ex-Gigabyte employees. Products between both companies had more than a few similarities at the time. Both companies have different target audiences, as such, their product development has diverged somewhat. But as the old saying goes “The more things change, the more they remain the same”.
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Do You Guru? That’s the question ABIT has been asking these last few weeks, especially since they added their new µGuru system to their three most popular chipsets. Of course you are going to see the µGuru system on the KV8-MAX3, the VIA K8T800-based chipset for the Athlon 64 CPU. Then, both my friend and yours, Ken O’Rielly reviewed the
AI7 that’s based on the i865PE chipset. And we now come to today’s review, the AN7 that’s based on the ever-popular nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset which is basically a reworked NF7-S to support the µGuru system.
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After having such an enjoyable review of the 875P IC7-MAX3 motherboard, I was interested to see what ABIT had to offer in the way of the 865PE chipset. As luck would have it I not only get to try out the ABIT solution of the i865PE chipset, but I also get hands on experience with the µGuru features in the form of an AI7 motherboard.
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The MAX series of boards from ABIT for both Intel and AMD platforms have received much deserved success and recognition in the industry. Likewise, ABIT marketed cooling technology on their GeForce4 Ti4200 and GeForce FX 5900 by the name of OTES, or Outside Thermal Exhaust System. ABIT once again took home the bacon with a merging of both MAX and OTES, with the IC7-MAX3 motherboard. Equipped with an avant-garde MOSFET cooling system, this Intel Pentium4 mainboard sports radical features, without compromising on performance!
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Hey, it's upgrade time once again. I have been using this Soyo K7VTA-B motherboard for far too long - I'm in the need of something refreshing. Thankfully, along came a spider named KX7, and it found a home in my office. Based on the VIA KT333 chipset, the KX7-333R brings to the table the stability and attention to detail that ABIT is reknown for. Being one of my all-time favorite motherboard manufacturers, I was quite eager to get this gem into my system and feel the raw power and performance of a KT133 to KT333 upgrade.
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I doubt very much that many of you haven't heard the name ABIT, none of you if you consider yourself knowledgeable in the OC'ing circles. I'd even feel comfortable saying a lot of you have had the chance to try one flavor or another of ABIT's products. I have read many a review, and many a forum posting, about the level ABIT is willing and able to catapult you into when it comes to over-clocking and stability at this high performance plateau. In this review of ABIT's KG7-Lite, I will personally find out if this is merely the hysterical ranting of many lucky people or if I am just plain lucky to have had a chance to review this board.
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Unlike the other motherboard manufactures, ABIT didn't have a "Drop in" solution because they never brought out a KT266 version. When the "Engineered by ABIT" lads were testing and tweaking out the board they devolved with VIA's first 266 chipset, they opted not to release it because they found it to be unstable in their testing. When they designed-in the KT266A chipset, they wanted to make sure that the board passed all their tests along with what the user would be doing to them.
Admittedly I was not the first to receive a KR7A-RAID board to review, but it did arrive in my hands just before Christmas and I have been using it ever since. So to take a page from ABIT and take the time to really put it through it's paces, you are only now getting to read about what I found. I have been using this as my everyday system, whether it is for everyday use, or me trying to make it crash and burn with all the testing and pushing to get me higher in MadOnion's Fastest Webmaster list. So did Santa Bring me the toy I had been waiting for, or was I a bad reviewer and got coal instead. Read on intrepid reader, read on…
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