“The VIA K8T800 Pro North Bridge and VIA VT8237 South Bridge combo provide excellent support for AMD's Athlon 64 platform, providing a 1600MHz system bus using HyperTransport technology.”

“The board's AGP 8X port supports both 1.5V and 0.8V graphics hardware, and another five 32-bit PCI slots provide plenty of upgrade and expansion options. On the storage front, in addition to the two standard IDE connectors, two Serial ATA connectors that support RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations are also provided. Other noteworthy features include an onboard 10/100/1000Mbps PCI Ethernet controller, supported by a GigabitVT6122 LAN chipset.”

The Power of uGuru

“A unique feature of this motherboard is the ABIT uGuru technology, which is an engineered microprocessor that gives the user power over the system's performance, stability and overclocking abilities. The uGuru family consists of ABIT EQ, a self-diagnostic and monitoring utility, OC Guru, an Windows-based overclocking utility, FlashMenu, a Window-based BIOS flash utility and BlackBox, a system logging and diagnostic tool that provides critical information in the event of a crash or problem. ”

Conclusion

“The uGuru technology gives the ABIT KV8 Pro board an edge when it comes to tweaking of system stability, performance and overclocking, and this makes it an ideal board for a seasoned PC veteran looking for a stable and highly configurable board to tinker with. Indeed, it does need some tinkering to get it to perform at its best.”