VIA KT400 Based Mainboard Roundup

ABIT KD7-G
Street price: $138

Let's start things off with the entry from ABIT?  Their Soft Menu III is near legendary as well as the performance of many of ABIT's previous products.  Let’s look at some specs for the KD7-G and see if measures up to its maker's reputation.

Specifications

• Processor: Socket A supporting AMD XP/Duron

• FSB support: 200/266/333MHz

• Northbridge: VIA KT400

• Southbridge: VIA VT8235

• Memory: Four DIMM slots, official support for DDR 333/266/200.  Unofficial support for DDR400.

• Supports 2 DIMM DDR 333/400 (max 2 GB)

• Supports 3 DIMM Un-buffered DDR 200/266 (max 3 GB)

• Supports 4 DIMM Registered DDR 200/266 (max 3.5 GB)

• On board LAN: Broadcom 10/100/1000 MB PCI Ethernet controller

• On board Audio: 6 Channel AC97 audio CODEC

• SPDIF output connector

• IDE: Duel IDE channels for ATA133

• Serial ATA: Silicon Image 3112 controller - two ports (1.5 gbps) for RAID 0, 1

• Integrated I/O: One floppy connector, six USB 2.0 ports (two external accesses, two internal connections allowing for four additional ports)

• AGP: One AGP 8X slot

• PCI: Six PCI slots

• Form Factor: Standard ATX

What you get:

The ABIT KD7-G comes with the KD7-G board, Driver and Utility CD, Serial ATA Driver disk, IDE Ribbon Cables, Serial ATA150 Cable, Serial ATA Converter, USB 2.0 port bracket, instruction manual, and rear I/O plate.

  

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