No better board than this
Written: Jan 02 '01
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Pros: Lots of built on features
Cons: slightly difficult to set up
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| Gavvin's Full Review: Abit KT7-RAID Motherboard |
The Abit KT-7 RAID is a great board to use for your AMD Duron and Athlon Thunderbird processors. It has a socket A connection and a built on HPT 370 IDE RAID controller along with 5 PCI slots, 1 4x AGP slot and an ISA slot. There are 3 PCI-133 DIMM slots that will each take a 512 Mb DIMM, ATA100 support for fast hard drives and the Softmenu BIOS allows you to tweak just about everything without resorting to jumper settings. The board also comes with 2 USB ports built on and 2 expansion USB slots for a total of 4. The board also has an IR connector, wake on LAN and wake on Modem headers, built in heat sensors, and write protect virus protection.
The built on RAID controller will allow you to run 3 different RAID configurations. With RAID 0 and two identical drives, you can speed up your system by writing to both drives at once in what is known as a "striped array". Raid 1 can be used to make an identical copy or "mirror" of one hard drive on a second drive. This is very useful to those who have important data that they cannot afford to lose, although you only get the storage capacity of one drive. The third configuration is known as RAID 0+1 and combines the first two configurations using FOUR identical drives. This will allow you to mirror a two drive array on a second two drive array.
I encountered only two minor setbacks while setting this board up. The first was with the RAID drivers. It took several tries to actually get the system to recognize that the proper drivers were installed. The second was with the fan. I put a Thermal Orb Super Monster Cooler on my 900 MHz Thunderbird and it was a VERY tight fit. I ended up scraping the protective coating off of a row of components soldered in a row next to the processor slot while trying to get the fan on. After an hour of fiddling with it, I finally got everything to click and it works great.
This is a great motherboard for a decent price and I recommend it for everyone who uses high end AMD processors.
Recommended:
Yes
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