ABIT KT133 Boards!

[Killfile]

Just spotted two new entries over at my favorite indiscrete mail order company, http://www.dabs.com:

ABIT KT7
Ordered Upon Request
£98.00 (£115.15 inc VAT)

ABIT KT7-100
Ordered Upon Request
£110.00 (£129.25 inc VAT)

An ABIT KT133 board! If anyone's going to produce the first Socket A overclockers board, it's probably going to them. I'm almost tempted to buy one, except I ... er ... don't need one. Well, can't justify one anyway ...

 

[Muerto]

Sounds cool, I'm on my way to Abit's web site right now. I hope you can bypass the multiplier lock on Duron/T-Bird CPUs like you could on the A7V.

 

[Muerto]

Woohoo! I'm a senior member!

 

[Tripleshot]

I think thats a misprint.Abit offers the KA7 and KA7-100 at Abits site that I see. No mention of KT7.Can you offer up more proof?

 

[Muerto]

I didn't see anything on Abit's site either. I'm sure they will offer a KT133 solution in the near future. Maybe they just haven't made the press release yet.

 

[Mem]

I also notice that,btw they have the Gigabyte GA-7ZM SoA VIA KT133 MATX
Mfr code: GA-7ZM
1-2 weeks
£97.52 inc vat

So looks like socketA out real soon.

 

[Marty]

Lets hope the Abit Socket-A board allows the user to jack the voltage above 1.85 volts. That was the limitation keeping the thunderbird from going above 1.1GHz.

Marty

 

[acadia]

As far as oc'ing is concerned it seems Epox and Asus have already beat Abit to the punch.

http://www.epox.com/html/english/products/motherboard/ep-8kta.htm

Note the blue dip switches in the middle of the board, many have
conjectured, but I have yet to confirm that they are clock multiplier
setting regulators, it's quite a few of them, 12 switches so one is
hard pressed to believe that all those switches are used to let say just control FSB, I wager that they have more functionality.

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000623/index.html

Asus has sinced removed the jumpers that were present on Tom's Pre-release board that regulated clock multiplier settings, however, rumor has it that this functionality has been moved to the bios menu. Making changing your clock multiplier even easier.

 

[cobain]

Also the Asus and Epox boards won't die on you after a month or too

 

[Killfile]

Nope, they're KT133 boards. They're listed seperately to the KX133 boards:

Old:

SlA VIA KX133 ATX
Mfr code: KA7
Quicklinx: M4KWS

SlA VIA KX133 ATX
Mfr code: KA7-100
Quicklinx: M4LWS

New:

SoA VIA KT133 ATX
Mfr code: KT7-100
Quicklinx: P02WS

SoA VIA KT133 ATX
Mfr code: KT7
Quicklinx: P01WS

 

[Tripleshot]

Killfile

I certainly appreciate the rapid news of new equipment in these forums,but unless the "KT7 and KT7-100" is shown herehttp://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/index.htm.it doesn't exist.

 

[Eli]

I have a friend getting the Epox Socket-A board. We will soon see if it has multiplier adjustment!

 

[AMB]

I am probably going to get the Abit from Dabs, they only have 3-4 days now, although, I think that is wrong

 

[Ferocious]

Probably old news about ABIT's KT7 Socket A mobo...


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