Abit KG7-RAID Socket A Motherboard Review

Posted by Thomas McGuire on December 07, 2001
Manufacturer: Abit     Product: KG7-RAID Socket A Motherboard

Specifications

Listed beneath are the specifications for the Abit KG7 RAID.

CPU

·     Supports AMD Athlon 700MHz ~ 1.33GHz or future Socket A processors based on 200/266MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate)

·     Supports AMD Duron 600MHz ~ 950MHz or future Socket A processors based on 200MHz (100MHz Double Data Rate)

• Supports 200MHz Alpha EV6 bus for the AMD Athlon & Duron processors

Chipset

AMD 761/VIA VT82C686B Chipset

·         Supports Ultra DMA 33, Ultra DMA 66 & Ultra DMA 100 IDE protocol

·         Supports Advanced Configuration & Power Management Interface (ACPI)

·         Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 2X (3.3V) & 4X (1.5V) mode (Sideband) device

• Supports 200MHz/266MHz (100MHz/133MHz Double Data Rate) memory bus settings

Highpoint Technologies, Inc. HPT 370A chipset

·         Supports ATA/100 specifications

·         Automatically fine tunes each IDE/ATAPI device for best performance

·         Concurrent PIO & bus master access (ATA port accessible during DMA transfer)

• Detailed specifications:

·         Ultra DMA 100MB/sec data transfer rate

·         RAID 0 (stripping mode for boosting performance)

·         RAID 1 (mirror mode for data security)

·         RAID 0 + 1 (stripping & mirroring)

·         2 independent ATA channels

·         256 Byte FIFO per ATA channels

·         Compliant with Plug & Play

·         Up to 4 IDE devices supported

• Drive Modes Support

·         Ultra 5/4/3/2/1/0

·         PIO 4/3/2/1/0

·         DMA 2/1/0

• BIOS Support

·         Friendly UI for RAID function settings

·         Auto detects & supports Ultra Mode (ATA/EIDE) transfers

·         Recognises drives up to 128GB

• Operating Systems Supports

·         Microsoft DOS 5.x & above

·         Microsoft Windows 95/98, NT 4.0, 2000, Me & XP

·         ABIT Gentus 3.0A or later version (Linux)

Memory

·         Four 184-pin DIMM slots support PC1600/PC2100 DDR SDRAM module

• Supports up to 4 GB MAX. (64, 128, 256, 512,1024 MB DDR SDRAM)

System BIOS

·         SoftMenu III Technology

• Supports Plug & Play

Miscellaneous

·         ATX form factor

·         1 AGP slot, 6 PCI slots

·         Hardware monitoring - Fan speed, CPU temp & System temp

·         Built-in Wake on LAN header

·         Built-in Wake on Ring header

·         One built-in SM-Bus header

·         Dimensions: 305 x 245mm

• Built-in IrDA TX/RX header

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