SUMMARY: The new breed of Athlon board has been making it's way into the marketplace. Based on the VIA KT400 chipset, there has been a lot of talk about some of the future possibilities in the Athlon line. Come join Cameron "Sov" Johnson as he takes a look at the Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Motherboard. It uses this very chipset and we need to find out if it will make a worthy addition to our own systems.
Chipset VIA KT400 Chipset VIA KT400 Northbridge VIA VT8235 Southbridge V-Link @ 533MB/s Interconnect
Bus Frequency 100MHz/133MHz Internal 200MHz/266MHz External Supports DDR-200, DDR-266, DDR-333 Memory Alpha EV6 Communication Bus
Expansion Slots 1 AGP @ 4x, 8x 5 PCI
Onboard Peripherals VIA VT6306 Firewire Controller Promise ATA-133 RAID Controller
Expansion Ports 1 PS2 Keyboard Port 1 PS2 Mouse Port 4 USB 1.1 Ports (2 rear accessible, 2 via optional expansion bracket) 4 USB 2.0 Ports 2 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 3 Audio Ports (Audio out front, Line in, Microphone) 1 Midi/game Port
Special Features FSB Adjustable in BIOS VCore, VDimm adjustable in BIOS CPU Multiplier Adjustable via Dipswitches Dual BIOS
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