Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday 21st March 21, 2001 – When Ripnet UK recently reviewed ABIT's KT7A-RAID, not only were they blown away by the number of features and entranced by its tweakability, they believe the KT7A-RAID to be the best Socket A motherboard on the market.
Ripnet began their review in the box of the KT7A-RAID, noting the impressive array of support.
"You get ABIT's usual excellent manual, two ATA 100 ribbon cables, a floppy cable, drivers and utilities CD, Hot Rod Pro 100 drivers floppy disk, and an extra USB cable with two ports to run from the motherboard header."
Next, Ripnet addressed the board layout, and was pleased with the position of various components. "A nice feature of the layout is that the ATX connector is placed well out of the way at the top edge of the board, it doesn't restrict your access or impede the airflow at all - excellent."
Of course no discussion of an ABIT board would be complete without mentioning SoftMenu. SoftMenu gives the power back to the user. "With Soft Menu III the permutations are, if not quite infinite, probably the best you could wish for." Ripnet sum up SoftMenu with one short sentence: "Soft Menu III gives you more tweaking options in the BIOS than you can shake a large and extremely hairy stick at, should you feel so inclined"
The KT7A-RAID gives users a lot of flexibility. "It allows you CPU/FSB combinations of 100/100, 100/133, or 133/133, so that you can carry on using an older CPU or RAM on your new board until you're ready to upgrade them…'
And in conclusion? "Well after all that lot what is there left to say? The ABIT KT7A-RAID is a superb motherboard. Well laid out, feature rich, and with one of the most impressive software overclocking tools you'll find anywhere in Soft Menu III. Everything about it is carefully thought out, from the positioning of the ATX power connector and the fan headers spread around the bo |