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A review by fulshit on AOpen AK77-600 Max - motherboard - ATX - KT600 October 31st, 2004
Author's product rating:
Speed
Fast
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Stability
Very stable
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Cheap and lots of features
Disadvantages:
average overclocking ability
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
The AOpen AK77-600 Max has a unique feature of having double bios chips, specially these days when virus attacks are common these days. With having twin bios, the second bios can store a good bios version that can be used when the first bios other one fails. It is also bundled with a Norton virus 2003, s very helpful software which can protect you from e-mail worms and viruses. This board has via kt600 chipset instead of an nforce 2. The motherboard has a little heat sink at the middle which helps to avoid overheating. All the headers of this motherboard are place on the near bottom of the motherboard. The USB 2.0 header s located at the second third PCI slots. A total of 6 USB ports are located at the back panel of this board. There is also a printer port and 2 ps/2 ports.
Four mounting holes are located in CPU sockets, which free the area from obstructions and to make it easier for us to install the CPU heatsink especially the larger ones. In terms of overclocking the AOpen AK77-600 performs a pretty decent job overclocking an Athlon 3200+ on up to 210 front side bus. The cypress clock generator allows you to increase the FSB of the board of up to 248 MHz and you can adjust the voltage to your CPU, AGP and memory.
With a price of $133 this board has a lot features but not the best, especially in the bandwidth benchmarks this board is severely beaten by nForce 2 chipset systems. This motherboard offers a lot great features but it’s not intended for the power hungry games.
Networking: Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Features
BIOS Features: DMI support, Multilingual BIOS, DMI support, power failure recovery (AC loss resume), JumperFree
Manual Settings: CPU frequency, processor core voltage, memory voltage, AGP slot voltage, Processor core voltage, memory voltage, AGP slot voltage
Hardware Monitoring: CPU overheating protection
Sleep / Wake Up: Keyboard wake up, RTC (real-time clock) wake up, suspend to RAM (STR), wake on LAN (WOL), suspend to disc, mouse wake up, wake on PCI device, Keyboard wake up, wake on modem (WOM), RTC (real-time clock) wake up, suspend to RAM (STR), wake on LAN (WOL), suspend to disc, mouse wake up, wake on PCI device
Hardware Features: Chassis intrusion detection, Die-Hard BIOS, Dr. Voice II, DieHard BIOS Lite, WatchDog ABS, Vivid BIOS, SilentTek, Diagnostic LEDs, chassis intrusion detection, Die-Hard BIOS, Dr. Voice II, DieHard BIOS Lite, WatchDog ABS, Vivid BIOS, SilentTek
Manufacturer's product description
AOpen is an established market leader, from motherboards to monitors, to multimedia add-on cards, and more. With AOpen products, you are guaranteed the latest in technology development at competitive prices. And because AOpen controls design and manufacturing, from the drawing board to the finished product, the quality of that product is ensured.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slot(s):
1 ( 1 ) x processor - Socket A
3 ( 3 ) x memory - DIMM 184-PIN
1 ( 1 ) x AGP 8x
6 ( 6 ) x PCI
Storage Interfaces:
ATA-133 - connector(s): 3 x 40pin IDC
Serial ATA-150 - connector(s): 4 x 7pin Serial ATA
Intel Rocks again.........
I bought this motherboard 3 months ago. Its awsome motherboard. First of all it has 6 channel sound speaker output system. Then Intel X3100 graphic media accelaretor. Which gives great gamin quality. Lots of usb ports.... more
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