This is one of ABIT's older offerings, being a motherboard for the original Athlons (i.e. in slot format and not the socket Thunderbirds).
This has all the specs on it's side and in my experiance is a very solid, stable and good performing motherboard.
This board is based on the hugely ... Read review
Advantages: good features, UDMA 100 support, Award bios Disadvantages: out of date slot A architecture
This is one of ABIT's older offerings, being a motherboard for the original Athlons (i.e. in slot format and not the socket Thunderbirds).
This has all the specs on it's side and in my experiance is a very solid, stable and good performing motherboard.
This board is based on the hugely successful VIA KX133 chipset, which has largely dominated the Athlon boards. As expected it has all the advanced chipset options, supporting ... ...plenty of scope for upgrade with this board. As i've already said there is support for PC100 and 133 SDRAM upto a maximum of 2 Gb of memory. There is an AGP slot supporting AGP 2x and also the latest 4x technology. There is 3 DIMM memory slots, 6 PCI slots and an ISA slot to support any legacy hardware that you may have. For your hard disks the board will support upto UDMA 100 which is fabulous and there is 2 USB connectors along with the normal ... more
This is one of ABIT's older offerings, being a motherboard for the original Athlons (i.e. in slot format and not the socket Thunderbirds).
This has all the specs on it's side and in my experiance is a very solid, stable and good performing motherboard.
This board is based on the hugely successful VIA KX133 chipset, which has largely dominated the Athlon boards. As expected it has all the advanced chipset options, supporting both PC100 and PC133.
There is plenty of scope for upgrade with this board. As i've already said there is support for PC100 and 133 SDRAM upto a maximum of 2 Gb of memory. There is an AGP slot supporting AGP 2x and also the latest 4x technology. There is 3 DIMM memory slots, 6 PCI slots and an ISA slot to support any legacy hardware that you may have. For your hard disks the board will support upto UDMA 100 which is fabulous and there is 2 USB connectors along with the normal selection of serial connectors.
The board comes with in my opinion the best bios company, Award BIOS and this includes the standard anti-virus write protect feature. For alterations to the bus speed etc..., Softmenu III is included which makes life a lot easier.
Overall here we have a lovely board that is very stable and overclockable. I would however only recommend it for people buying it second hand as the Socket A processors are hard to come by now and this is old technology against the newer TBird Socket A processors.
Advantages: Easy of setup, 'Tweakability' Disadvantages: Possibly unstable dependant on memory
The Abit KA7-100 motherboard is one of the latest offerings from the Taiwan based company. Based around the Via KX133 Chipset, the board supports AMD's Athlon processot with it's slot A architechture. Unusually for a KX133 board, the KA7 has 4 DIMM slots allowing a maximum of 1Gb of system memory to be installed. All the other expected features are available - 5 PCI slots, a legacy ISA slot, and an AGP slot that, thanks to the KX133 chipset, supports ... ...also sports 2 Ultra DMA 100 channels using an onboard Highpoint 370 controller chip. For the real performance seekers out there, the UDMA 100 channels can also be configured (using a second, preferably identical hard drive) as an IDE RAID array, which almost doubles the hard disk performance.
Using Abit's SOFTMENU III, the board's bios setup couldn't be easier, and whilst most of the feature's contained therein will mean nothing to most people, ...
Andy0468 14.12.2000
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Advantages: To many to mention Disadvantages: none i can think of
Abit KA7-100 is the new updated version of the motherboard which i have just bought. Extras now included support up to 8 ide devices. which use the ultra ata/100, or ultra DMA/100, is the extension of the ultra ata/66 interface. The high speed interface has a 100 MBYTES/sec transfer rate and maxmimized disk proformance under the current PCI local bus environment I would also liked to add that the ABIT web site is very helpful and even a novice would ...
hspurs 25.06.2000
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With the KA7 ABIT gave you 4 DIMM, 6 Data Buffer, 6 PCI Slot and SoftMenu III Technology. The KA7 gave you 200MHZ FSB but you wanted more. ABIT has answered with the KA7-100. Everything the KA7 is with the added feature of UDMA 100 support. You asked for it and ABIT has responded.
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