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Posted by
Toby
Crundwell on February 14, 2002
Company: FIC
Product: AN11
Stealth KT266A motherboard
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I was a bit confused by what the onboard
audio actually consisted of. The technical specification
sheet I was given stated the chip was the Realtek ALC201A,
AC97 codec, yet the website listed the audio as part of the
KT266a system, VIA8233. Furthermore, the BIOS & drivers
list the Device as VIA 3058. I emailed FIC asking for
clarification on this matter but got no reply. In any case,
the offering would seem to be just utilising the onboard
sound features of the Via KT266a. This is quite unlike the
C-Media chips I've been used to seeing on KT266a boards, and
in my opinion not as good. FIC have only included one output
Jack, limiting the board to stereo, even if a better
standard was supported. Although the sound quality really
isn't too bad, it is still not capable of any kind of
"real" surround-sound (virtual surround is NOT
applicable). As such I would not really recommend using the
onboard audio if you have anything resembling decent
speakers.
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AMD Athlon/Duron 600 ~ 1.4GHz @
100/133MHz DDR FSB
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AMD Athlon XP 1500+ ~ 2000+ @ 133MHz
DDR FSB
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VIA KT266A & 8233 chipset
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3 DDR DIMM; up to 3GB PC2100 DDR
SDRAM
Integrated audio in the VIA 8233 (Audio could be
disabled via BIOS)
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2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, 1
PS/2 mouse and keyboard connector, 2 USB conectors + 1
USB front pin-header supports 2 devices, 1 media
connector (Line-in, Line-out, Mic-in, Game port)
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Ultra DMA 33/66/100
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Optional Promise RAID 0,1 support or
dual Ultra DMA 100
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1 AGP (4X), 5 PCI, 1 ACR
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ACPI 1.0B, APM 1.2, PnP 1.0a, SMBIOS
2.3, DMI 2.0 , WfM 2.0 , Smart for HDD, USB 1.1, PC99,
PCI 2.2,Y2K compliant BIOS
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Size: 9.8" x 12"
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ACPI ready (STD)
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CPU Voltage and Multiplier switches
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Hardware Monitoring: Temperature/
Voltage/ System fan control monitoring
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Hardware based intelligent
anti-virus protection Auto Power Failure Recovery
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WOL / WOR
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Keyboard/Mouse wake up
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Novus
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