Abit might not be the biggest motherboard manufacturer out there, however we can say they have built a very good reputation in the pc enthusiasts’ community in the last couple of years. Back to the times when the first Celeron CPUs were released you could see everywhere people getting combos of Celerons and Abit motherboards because of their overclocking features that had never been available before.

That hasn’t changed with the time as they have been offering very good motherboards for P3s and Celerons based on Intel and VIA chipsets however they were still missing a Slot-A motherboard, it’s of common knowledge they didn’t want to take the risk with the AMD 750 chipset (the first chipset that was available for the Athlon) since it used a 6 layer design which is more stable but more expensive to manufacture.

The KA7 is the latest offering from Abit for Athlon CPU owners. Built on the VIA KX133 chipset, the KA7 offers just about everything we are used to see nowadays in new motherboards, unlike the AMD 750 chipset, the KX133 supports AGP 4x (which actually doesn’t makes much of a difference but is good to have it present anyway) and true PC133 memory support, this might be the most important feature of the chipset when comparing it to AMD’s one.

You might want to know there is also available the KA7-100 that is pretty much the same board but adds 2 IDE Channels supporting the new ATA-100 specification, as you could imagine it comes with a larger price tag as well, but if you are going use the extra features be sure to take it a look.

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