VIA Technologies. A great CPU is useless without a high-performing, compatible motherboard chipset. VIA got behind the Athlon very early, producing chipsets that exploited its power at affordable prices. Over time as a product matures, usually performance, stability and compatibility are improved.
Often, new features or capabilities are added to further increase the value of a product. The KT7 was arguably the best Socket A board available Not only did Abit pack the board with features, but they bundled it with a very complete set of items Included in the box are a pair of Pin IDE cables, a floppy cable, a secondary dual USB connector, a CD and Floppy containing all necessary drivers to get your board up and running and one of, if not the best, user's manual available from any motherboard manufacturer today.
Just alwasy buy a retail boxed board, and RMA at the first sign of trouble if there is any. I am sorry, to respond that way. But as everyone know it gets personal, when someone makes fun of something you are proud to have accomplished.
I will try not to let it happen again. OK, the certification flames are turning a little too personal, guys. Healthy disagreements about the subject at hand are accepted and even encouraged, but ad hominem attacks are out of bounds, even for our hands-off moderation style.
And be prepared to RMA the thing at the first sign of instability. I've never had a fully stable system with my KT7-RAID, even with the best of their advice and my own reasonably capable fiddling. The machine likes to hard-lock when playing games, has occasional trouble with accessing the CD-ROM drive at the same time as the HD, and windows 98 cannot boot stable with USB devices connected.
Their suggestions improved the situation some for me. The machine no longer freezes occasionally at boot, for example. I was unaware of the USB problem untill I read it here. I have never had a problem and I have 3 of the 4 USB ports used. I guess maybe I am just lucky. But it was interesting to see that there are problems and no easy solution. Neither one are a good solution for something that should work out of the box. Good review though. I am very happy with my board, it has worked great, although I have not had time to OC it yet, but then again I have a 1.
Cleared CMOS… still no dice.. Brought it to work this morning, popped my 1. Up to now its been running my 1. Shuttle board…. Asus got me started overclocking with the P55T2P Symptoms are usually that the system reboots or hangs up totally if you attempt to copy a medium to large file from the cdrom on channel 1 to the HD on channel 0.
Thats with current Bios and Via drivers. I noticed that the northbridge heatsink had paste on it, but almost no contact, so I replaced it with a healthy layer of arctic silver. I am sorry, but this board is made for working with only 2 PCI cards. Inmediatly that you put in the 3rd… BANG! It was immposible to put these to work togheter in the ABIT. Or maybe it was a bad board.
I have change it for an Asus A7V I hope things go better with this one. The USB problem is a known issue with Via chipsets. I was surprised the Dr. Abit makes quality products except perhaps the SE6, it was kind of lame. I have a KT7A sitting in a box now waiting for the rest of its parts to arrive.
Asus makes a great product, but they are a step below Abit when it comes to overclocking. I remeber being astounded at the BH6 with it jumperless bios. I was clocking my Cel a to before there were any mhz chips and Coppermine was still a dream. I still use this board today,..
I was debating on waiting for an affordable DDR ram solution,.. I use a Voodoo for 3D and its plenty fast for me.. The Abit KT7a-raid is simply an awsome board,. Not since I first got my trusty Cel to mhz have I been this excited over a new system.
Evil is getting soft. I just built a system for a friend based on an Asus A7V Now that is a nice board. It oozes quality so badly I had to mop it up after I was done building the box. I overclocked a duron to with a FSB without doing a thing. Anyway, get an A7V into the lab and see what a pimp-tight board it is compared to the Abit.
A friend of mine bought my old aptiva k rig….. Type search above and then hit Enter. Remove the board and flip the shelf up and you get to the rest of the goodies. This complements the two USB ports located next to the mouse and keyboard ports, bumping the total number of USB ports to four. The KTA north bridge chip is mounted 45 degrees off square.
Socket A heatsinks can be quite challenging, and every bit of space helps. Benchmarks I wanted to do some benchmarks that would highlight the advantages of the KTA chipset and its support for the faster MHz bus speed. Some research online confirmed that many of the boards do this. Houston, we have a problem. Granted, my bus speed overclocking experiments were short-lived, but I have serious doubts that the board is to blame for that.
Comments closed. I have Windows pro. Its seems that every pci card have the same irq as the usb even if I disable the usb controller in the bios and install an usb pci card Everything is up-to-date bios, drivers, windows etc… A little question: if you have the same mobo as mine will you mail me your bios settings. Anonymous 21 years ago Anonymous Gerbil post 46 update: What a dumbass I am. I had the freakin fan cooler on back to front!
Time to overclock. The optimist believes this is the best of all possible worlds. If you wait for the picture above to load you will see the memory benchmarks are taken at the various different settings and finally with the FSB maxed out at MHZ with all the various options in the Abit BIOS turned on for extra memory performance.
In advanced Chipset features, the memory timing was set to Turbo, Interleave was set to 4 way and CAS latency set to 2, these are the main options for performance setting, they only work with decent quality branded memory, such as Crucial or Mushkin, with cheaper spec memory you may not be able to turn on all the performance settings and still maintain stability. Just about everyone plays games so lets see how the Abit copes with a few gaming benchmarks. Via have sussed this out an now the KTA chipset is regarded as a high performance motherboard chipset.
For a final gaming benchmark I tried out 3dmark and tried to get the highest possible score. The only slight improvements Abit could make in my eyes would be to offer a wider voltage adjustment within the BIOS maybe up to 1. I do like this board a lot though, it offers overclockers all the facilities we need to get the best out of the system, and you cant really expect much more from a motherboard, this along with Abit's experience in this market and there continual bug fixing BIOS updates and web presence ensures that the Abit KT7 series motherboards are winners in my eyes.
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