Hallo zusammen!
Ich habe da so ein paar Probleme mit meinen 7IX (war immerhin eines der ersten K7-Boards).
Nun wollte ich gerne wissen, welches Board gerade gut ist.
Rendiren sich die neuen Boards mit dem VIA-Chipsatz? Ich habe mal gehört, das die irgendwie noch buggy sind.
Danke für Eure Hilfe!
Dawson 
megalomania „Atholon-Board! Boah! Aber welches??“
Kannst auch noch warten auf das Abit Board, hört sich recht gut an.
Abit KA7 Athlon motherboard, press release
posted March 24, 2000 at 11:35 AM MST by Christopher "Razor" Gordon
Got the PR straight from Abit that they are producing an Athlon-compatible motherboard, the KA7. From the press release... oh hell, I'll just rip the whole thing:
Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. March 24th 2000 Unveiling a whole new level of quality and sophistication for the Athlon platform, ABIT has released their long awaited Slot A board, the KA7. This board is designed to support AMD-K7 Athlon Slot A 200MHz FSB Processors using the VIA VT8371(KX133) /VIA 686A chipset. It also supports all normal industry standard functions for motherboards such as Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI). AGP 2X/4X and 100/133MHz SDRAM Memory Bus Settings. The KA7 uses four 168-pin DIMM sockets supporting PC100/PC133 SDRAM modules up to 2 Gigabytes MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB SDRAM). In addition ABIT has added a new level of stability and performance with their famous 6 chip Data Buffer Set with ECC support.
6 Chip Data Buffer
With systems now at the 133MHz external clock speed, the circuitry design is crucial, especially concerning the SDRAM. Signal bandwidth and length need to be adjusted accordingly. One slight mistake could cause an error, so a high speed data buffer chipset called the Data Switch was developed to guarantee the proper RAM stability at 100MHz and 133MHz when using 4 DIMMs.
The chips act as buffers to increase the stability and data integrity when using all 4 DIMM slots. It is recommended highly to prevent system crashes when using 8 banks of memory. Since this data buffer is not required, but only recommended you will not find it on most of other motherboards with 4 DIMM slots.
ABIT has included the data buffer with the KA7 for an added level of stability and performance. When it comes to system crashes we don t think you should gamble and reliability is our primary concern at ABIT. Says ABIT s Eric Boeing.
SoftMenu" III
While you might find some of the features you want in some Athlon boards, only ABIT has Soft Menu", and now only to be found on the new KA7, there is the newly designed SoftMenu" III for the Athlon platform. The KA7 s SoftMenu" III has some special added features and functions that will allow the maximum performance and enhancement tweaks specifically for Athlon based CPUs, like FSB settings from 100MHz to 183MHz in increments of 1, (84 settings). In addition to SoftMenuTM Technology the System BIOS features and supports Award Plug and Play BIOS, Write-Protect Anti-Virus function by AWARD BIOS and is of course Year 2000 Compliant.
Multi I/O Functions
The KA7 has on board Bus Master IDE Ports supporting UDMA 33/66 as well as 6 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot for maximum upgradability, most other boards only have 5 PCI, but ABIT has added an extra PCI slot making the KA7 the most expandable and upgradeable board in its class. In addition to the normal serial and parallel ports the KA7 has 2 USB ports PLUS an extra header for 2 extra USB channels.
