Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. Thursday, February 08, 2001 – Overclockers Online recently investigated the KT7A-RAID motherboard. They found that ABIT's products are extremely stable and are packed with user-friendly features. "The KT7A is extremely stable and performs just fine in all stability tests."
They also found that the KT7A was "obviously designed with overclockers in mind." Pointing out the four onboard fan headers, and the tweakability of the SoftMenu.
The layout of a motherboard is always critical. The KT7A-RAID was designed with a variety of performance options in mind. Screams Overclockers Online: "There's enough room to install a FOP, Alpha or even water-cooling!" ABIT is aware of the needs of both budding and advanced overclockers. "The KT7A comes with 4 (!!) onboard fan headers, which is very rare. ABIT clearly designed this motherboard with overclockers in mind since they know we need a lot of fans in our rigs."
But the final word must again go to SoftMenu. Currently into its third incarnation, SoftMenu "lets users alter the Front Side Bus, core voltage and various other settings from within the BIOS" – a powerful and practical feature.
When tweaking your system to the pinnacle of perfection you have access to a wide array of FSB's ranging from 100Mhz all the way up to 183MHz. Overclockers Online write:
"As always, ABIT has included the possibility to change the core voltage and the I/O voltage. This should help you overclock your cpu and add stability to your system."
Still on tweaking, ABIT's KT7A has a lot of memory options as well, which Overclockers Online is quick to point out. "Thanks to settings like 4-way interleaving, CAS settings and some other options you can get the most out of your memory!" Good things never change, so of course the monitoring of the Winbond chip is still present, giving you a wide variety of points to monitor like CPU temperature, case temperature, all the voltages and fan r |
