Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Thursday, December 6th, 2001-
With their comprehensive and thorough reviews, garnering praise from the folks at Hard|OCP is not an easy task. However,
they had the chance to put the KR7A-RAID through its paces, and the results were truly impressive.
While benchmarking the KR7A-RAID, Hard|OCP explains that "...each consecutive win only solidifies the ABIT boards place as a leader of the reference design. Meaning a win 'here and there' can be considered flukes or 'explained away' but a when the board consistently beats out the other, we know we are looking at a stronger
board...[The KR7A-RAID] did in fact take a unanimous benchmark victory over the KT266A Reference board."
Hard|OCP took a close look at the ATA 133 RAID performance of the KR7A-RAID, and found that "The performance was indeed impressive as can be expected. While maintaining great speed throughout the duration of the test during both the read portion as well as the write portion of the test. You will also notice the LACK of data "spikes" throughout the benchmark, something that makes a RAID array such as this very desirable among the server crowd as well as to the Audio / Video buffs as well."
The conclusion - "I can, with certainty, say I was thoroughly impressed with the performance aspects of the KR7A-RAID. The performance when the board was running was very impressive, the features offered by ABIT with this board, such as the 4 DIMM and ATA133, made it stand out enough from the KT266A
pack..."
"The ABIT KR7A-RAID board is certainly one that you will see the [H] recommend as it has turned in the highest overall scores we have ever
seen on an AMD system as it was benchmarked." |
