Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., May 30th, 2003-With Incredible Features and Legendary ABIT Performance, ABIT''s new IS7 with SATA 150, PC 1200,AGP 8X, USB 2.0, and SoftMenu™ is the next generation of high-performance motherboards for Intel CPUs. The website with one thing on its mind: overclocking, Extreme Overclocking.com put the board through its paces and decided to give it the Recommended Award. Here are the highlights of the review:
"ABIT doesn''t really need an introduction. Most enthusiasts know who they are by now. ABIT provides motherboards with good stability, features, and overclocking options that most boards do not provide.
Price and Features: The ABIT IS7 is not a very expensive board, when compared the 875P motherboards on the market. The IS7 is not the most feature rich motherboard but is well rounded and is equipped with features that consumers want. The board is aimed at the mainstream market with its price and affordability. ABIT also has a few different versions of the IS7.
Performance: The 865PE chipset is a good performer. In our testing it scored higher in most tests, when compared to the 845PE board. Some tests were close but keep in mind these benchmarks are synthetic and do not all show real world performance. Better performance will be found when using more of the systems bandwidth, which benchmarks do not really stress since there is no audio, or other peripherals being tested. As more things come into play, the 800 MHz FSB will really help.
Support: ABIT''s support for their products is excellent. They offer all of the drivers, manuals, and BIOS''s on their website. They also have one of the only direct RMA services. End users can go to this page and fill out an online E-RMA form which will be sent directly to ABIT. In addition, users can go to the ABIT Forums for more help on troubleshooting. Visit ABIT''s support page for more information on support. It is clear that the company has a first-class support
system.
Overclocking: Most ABIT motherboards we have tested in that past were good overclockers. The same goes for the IS7. The SoftMenu III makes overclocking very easy. The board allowed our 2.4C to be overclocked to 3.2 GHz which is over 1 GHz FSB. The voltage options are very good even though we think the DRAM could have gone a little higher. Other than that, overclockers will not be disappointed with this board in terms of overclocking.
Overall: 90% The 865PE chipset is a nice addition to the mainstream market. The chipset has some nice features like eight USB support, 800 MHz FSB support, CSA bus, and Hyperthreading support. It is priced much cheaper than its bigger brother, the 875P and only lacks ECC memory support and Performance Acceleration Technology. These new boards will phase out the older 845 motherboards as well as the 850. We are really glad that the new chipset was easy to work with and that we had no compatibility issues or something worse. Kudos to Intel and ABIT for their quality products."
For the full review go here:
http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/motherboards/ABIT_IS7_1.html
For more information on the ABIT motherboards, please go here:
http://www.abit.com.tw
About ABIT
ABIT Computer Corporation designs and sells a complete family of award-winning mainboards and multimedia products that support industry-leading technology and provide leading quality and performance for system integration of computer components supporting a broad range of PC applications, such as e-commerce, e-business, entertainment and education. Corporate headquarters are located in
Taiwan. For more information, visit the Company''s web site at:
http://www.abit.com.tw |
