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Albatron Mini-ITX KI690-AM2 Reviewed

Author: Cameron Johnson SUMMARY: VIA have some serious competition on the horizon with regard to their once dominant Mini-ITX products - meet AMD 690G!
Editor: Steve Dougherty
Category: Motherboards
Published: 11th July 2007
Manufacturer: Albatron
Our Rating: 9.0 out of 10

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BIOS

Unfortunately we had only a few days with the board, and in the haste we forgot to take our usual pictures of the BIOS screen, our bad. The BIOS used is an Award version 6 with a similar look to what the ASUS boards use. Under the Advanced menu there is the Frequency/Voltage control menu, which has only two overcocking options.

The two options you get are NTP Fid which controls the CPU ratio control, and the NPT VID control that gives you a very slight voltage increase of up to 2%. There are no memory voltage or bus speeds to overclock, so you’re not going too far with overclocking.



We were only able to run the system at its default speed of 3GHz, so no overclocking tests could be done. However, we did use 512MB of system memory for the graphics card. While this board mentions that it supports 1GB of system memory for the graphics card, it refused to boot when we dedicated the full 1GB to it. Though this is still 256MB more than that of the GeForce 6150 chipset boards.



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