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: Supports fast CPU's (upto Athlon 3200+), Crammed with features Disadvantages: None really
of this is that there are 4 DIMM memory slots, the first orange, the next purple, then orange, then purple. These two colours represent two different channels - DIMM's 1 and 2 are channel A and DIMM's 3 and 4 are channel B. Therefore by plugging the relevant DIMM's into the same colour sockets you can take advantage of the high speed RAM the motherboard offers.
The motherboard itself measures 30.5 x 24.4 cm, which is the norm really for ATX style motherboards, suitable for the ATX type PC cases (Towers).
I feel that the components on the motherboard are laid out really sensibly. The IDE connectors on the side nearest the optical drives and storage drives, so that the cable for this doesn't have to be too long and therefore restrict airflow inside the PC case, and can be tucked away easily. The jumpers and pins for the case power-on button ...
DMI 2.0 support, ACPI 1.0b support, SMBIOS 2.3 support
Hardware Monitoring
CPU core temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, system voltage, CPU overheating protection, power supply fan tachometer
Hardware Features
Q-Flash, C.O.M. (Corporate Online Management)
Manufacturer's product description
Being a key player in a constantly changing market not only requires vision, dedication and ambition, but also an understanding of, and ability to meet, the demands of today's global customer. For many years now, Gigabyte Technology has risen to this challenge and surpassed all expectations.
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