ABIT AI7 is Club Overclocker Recommended
"µGuru is a great breakthrough in overclocking technology."

Club Overclocker Rating
Innovation:
10 out of 10
Performance:
9.0 out of 10
Quality:
9.0 out of 10
Stability:
10 out of 10
Overclocking:
9.0 out of 10
Software Pack:
7.0 out of 10
Value:
9.0 out of 10
Overall Rating: 9.0
March 24, 2004 - With the AI7, ABIT is changing what people expect from a 'budget' motherboard. ClubOC discovered this all too well after putting the AI7 through a battery of tests. The editors liked it so much, they gave the AI7 an overall score of 9 and their Recommended Award.

ClubOC was impressed with the µGuru technology found on the AI7: "The µGuru is a great breakthrough in overclocking technology. The ability to change and save bios settings "on the fly" in Windows make all but major system or RAM tweaks available without a reboot. Good job ABIT, on giving us a useful utility we can enjoy. The other included ABIT utilities are useful and well thought out. FlashMenu allows you to bios flash from within Windows, is easy to use and works very well."

Here is ClubOC doing what they do best with the AI7: "ABIT has done an excellent job with the BIOS layout. We found all the settings we needed to get the most performance out of the AI7. Overclocking was quite easy. We had no issue getting the AI7 up to the maximum known stable overclock of 3562mhz on the P4 2.6c used in testing. We hit our 274fsb with no problems using a1gb kit (2 x 512mb) of OCZ PC4200 EL Gold RAM...Overall the AI7 is a very good overclocking board."

The conclusion? "ABIT has done a terrific job on the AI7, based on the Intel 865 chipset. The board's performance is within 4% of our ASUS P4C800 Deluxe, running the Intel 875 chipset. By going with the AI7, you will save around $80.00 and end up with the 5:4 memory ratio available so you can re-use your PC3200/3500 RAM. Of course by using a good PC4000/4200 Dual Channel RAM kit, you can run the FSB and Memory bus at 1:1 and have the best performance possible. All voltages including Vdimm show terrific stability, as we had no issues with the AI7. Stability was very good; all of our benchmarks and stability programs ran without a hitch, even running at 3562mhz on a 274fsb...If you are looking to build a high performance system and need a fast board running the Intel 865/875 chipset, the "Bang for the Buck" and features on the AI7 will be hard to beat."

For the full review, go to:
http://www.cluboc.net/reviews/motherboards/abit/AI7/index.htm

For more information on the AI7, go here:
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