SUMMARY: Our first VIA KT400A retail motherboard to hit the TweakTown labs comes from the folks at Gigabyte. Over the past two years Gigabyte has done a fantastic job in improving their products to please enthusiasts users. Today Cameron "Sov" Johnson takes a look at the Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra based on the new, single channel KT400A chipset. How does it perform against the older KT400 and nVidia's nForce2? Read on and find out if it deserves your attention or not!
CPU Supports AMD Athlon 600Mhz ~ 1.4Ghz Socket A (200FSB) Supports AMD Athlon 1.0Ghz ~ 1.4Ghz Socket A (266FSB) Supports AMD Athlon XP 1500+ ~ 2800+ Socket A (266FSB) Supports AMD Athlon XP 2600+ ~ 3000+ Socket A (333FSB)
Chipset VIA KT400A AGPset VIA KT400A Northbridge VIA VT8235 Southbridge Via Vlink Interconnect @ 533MB/s
Bus Frequency 100/133/166MHz Internal 200/266`/333MHz External AMD EV6 Bus
Expansion Slots 1 AGP 4x, 8x 5 PCI
Expansion Ports 1 PS2 Keyboard Port 1 PS2 Mouse Port 6 USB 2.0 Ports (2 rear accessible, 4 via expansion bracket) 3 Firewire Ports (via expansion bracket) 2 Serial Ports 1 Parallel Port 5 Stereo Audio Ports ( 3 rear accessible, 2 via expansion bracket) 1 Game Port (via expansion bracket)
Special Features BIOS overclocking control of FSB, voltages. Realtek Networking VIA Firewire GigaRAID ATA-133 IDE RAID Silicone Image SATA RAID. Dual BIOS
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