Gigabyte Giga7vaxp motherboard

Published: January 3, 2003

Author: Amber Lupala

Editor: Amber Lupala

Provider: Gigabyte

Introduction

Well this is the first board Gigabyte sent me and it really seems to be a great board with a bunch of accessories and features of the board. We will do some really good testing with this baby. Features like SATA, USB2, LAN etc etc etc makes this board look good already before the testing. But will it stand up to the expectations from us here at R&B? Lets have a look…….

Specs on the board
Processor – Socket A for AMD Athlon� XP / Athlon� /Duron� processor
Chipset – Northbridge : VIA KT400
- Southbridge : VIA 8235
- VIA V-Link architecture (533MB/s) – VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 controller
- Super I/O : ITE IT8705F
- Smart I/O : Winbond Smart@IO – Silicon Image sil3112A controller
- Promise PDC20276 ATA 133 RAID controller
- Raeltek 8100BL Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN controller
- AC97 Realtek ALC650 6-channel sound Chip
- Dual BIOS
FSB - 333/266/200 MHz FSB
Memory - Type : DDR400(PC3200)*/ DDR333 (PC2700) / DDR266 (PC2100) / DDR200 (PC1600) -184pin
- Max capacity : Up to 3GB by 3 DIMM slots
- DDR400(PC3200) max. up to 2 DIMM slots.
- *DDR400 recommended memory modules are listed in user’s manual & GIGABYTE website
Internal I/O Connectors - 1 x FDD
- 4 x UDMA ATA133/100/66 Bus Master IDE ports
- 3 x IEEE 1394 connectors
- 2 x 2ports USB 2.0 connector (by front USB ports)
- 1 x 2ports USB 2.0 connector (by cable with rear USB bracket)
- Memory Stick / Security Digital (MMC) / Smart Card Reader connectors
- 2 x SATA connectors
- 2 x cooling fan pin header
Expansion Slots – 1 x AGP universal slot (8X/4X/2X-AGP 2.0 compliant)
- 5 x PCI (PCI 2.2 compliant)
Rear Panel – PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse connector
- 2 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x COM ports
- 1 x RJ45 LAN port
- Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector
- 1 x Game/Midi port
CPU/AGP/DIMM Settings – CPU FSB adjustable via BIOS (1MHz-linear)
- CPU multiplier by DIP Switch
- CPU Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
- AGP Voltage adjustable via BIOS
- DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
Hardware Monitoring – System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
- H/W detect and report power-in voltage, CPU voltage, and Fan Speed Support auto detect temperature thermal shutdown function
Form Factor – ATX
- 23.5 x 30.4 cm
Other Features
- GIGABYTE patented DualBIOS�
- IDE #1-#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP, CD-ROM and USB bootable.
- Suspend to RAM (STR)
- Supports USB KB / MS wake up from S3
Bundle Softwares – Norton Internet Security
. Norton Anti Virus�
. Norton� Personal Firewall
. Norton� Privacy Control
. Norton� Parental Control
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Adobe Acrobat e-Book Reader

Pretty impressive right? Personally I’m almost prepared to change this against my Soyo SYKT400 board which I hold really dear

This package was really heavy! But what I found in it was neat so see

Accessories accessories and even more accessories…. Sata cables, IDE cables etc etc. Gigabyte has really thought of the extra accessories now as Soyo always has done.

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