Advantages: Dual bios and great stability Disadvantages: Unnanounced conflicts and required settings
GA-7VTX Socket A Gigabyte dual bios motherboard.
Introduction;
This Dual Bios motherboard designed to accept AMD/Duron/Athlon/XP processors,incorperates onboard sound,+4 USB,with DDR memorey and in innovative dual bios system.
Having myself tried and tested this motherboard for 6 months in two machines,I am totally convinced of is usefulness and it's place in the market.Providing a very stable board and up to date technology,it has the added benefit of a system that protects your bios against viruses,power fluctuations,incorrect bios upgrades and bios chip failure.
Its incorperated resources and features are good,and ample for a very respectable system.However there are a few factors to be considered when choosing a motherboard,and most of the conflicts and incompatibilty problems I have encountered are not documented ...
Advantages: cheap, does the job Disadvantages: graphics card obscures one of the pci express slots
Having no idea which Motherboard we needed to buy, we looked on the internet to see what was going for what price.
Having used Gigabye Motherboards in the past and never had any trouble with them the wisest thing to do was to keep to Gigabyte.
We decided on the GigabyteGA-945P-DS3 purely on the features it offered.
Cost
Around £46. For a motherboard this is good.
Features
Width: 30.5 cm
Depth: 19.3 cm
Compatible Processors: Pentium 4, Celeron D, Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme
64-bit Processors Compatibility: Built-in
Processor Socket: LGA775 Socket
Multi-Core Support: Dual-Core
FSB Speed: 1066 MHz Max
Power Connectors: 4-pin ATX12V connector, 24-pin main power connector
SATA 11 with 4 SATA 11 connectors
3 pci slots, 1pci express x 16, 3 pci x 1
takes up to 4 gb of ddr2 memory ...
Advantages: It is cheap and well constructed, comes with accessories Disadvantages: not recommended for overclocking
This ATX board is very solid and low cost. It has on-board sound, 6 usb ports 2.0 (backward compatible with 1.1), 6 PCI slots. Can support up to 3Ghz processor (Athlon XP) and 3GB of DDR RAM. It uses a Via Kt400 chipset, and support 8x AGP graphic card (im currently using ATI 9800 pro 128MB)
The amzing thing about this board is it can support DDR400, the only downside is it cannot support all DDR400 memory. From what I know it can only support 1GB if using DDR400 but if using DDR333 (PC2700) you can go up to 3GB.
Depending on what version you get, this board comes with alot of accessories - Serial ATA cables, Ethernet, Bluetooth, cables and drivers.
The utilties featured on the drivers that comes with this board ensures that you get the best performance from your board. These are the utilities:
- MSI Live update: - keep ...
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Audio
Audio Output
Sound card
Signal Processor
VIA VT8235
Sound Output Mode
5.1 channel surround
Compliant Standards
AC '97
Telecom / networking
Networking
Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet - integrated
Features
BIOS Features
ACPI support, DMI support, power failure recovery (AC loss resume)
Manual Settings
CPU frequency, processor core voltage, memory voltage, AGP slot voltage, memory bus frequency
Hardware Monitoring
CPU core temperature, chassis temperature, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU core voltage
Sleep / Wake Up
Keyboard wake up, wake on modem (WOM), suspend to RAM (STR), wake on LAN (WOL), mouse wake up, wake on USB port
Hardware Features
DualBIOS, Q-Flash
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02/01/2004
Manufacturer's product description
Gigabyte is an international motherboards expert. Dedicated to customer service and high technology, Gigabyte has already earned a reputation for quality worldwide. With a long history of commitment in the computer product design and production, and a team of highly skilled engineers in the motherboard nowadays, Gigabyte positions itself as a standard setter of price and performance in the manufacturing and marketing of motherboards. Gigabyte offers a complete line of advanced motherboards to meet the expanding needs of the personal computer market.
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