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Got my Asus A7V-133 (KT133A) today...

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Ulkesh

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Ok, some specs (I know a few of you have been asking about this):

-Supports RAID 0 via the Promise controller (changing jumpers on the mobo switches between RAID 0 and ATA100).
-Only supports the old 1.85V maximum
-5 PCI slots, AGP Pro etc (same as original A7V)
-Full multiplier, fsb and voltage adjustments in bios (no need to use dipswitches, although they are on the board).
-and a err... cute little fan on the clock generator chip thingy.

you probably wanna know other stuff, I'll do my best to answer... 😉

(btw, I live in the UK and got the board from a UK vendor, I'm not sure about availability in the US).
 
Give us some benchmarks ! I was not impressed with the Abit KT7a review that Kyle did.
 
They actually put a heatsink and fan on the clock generator chip? :Q Darn, wish they would've done that for the P3V4X.
 
wow that HSF on the Clock Gen is cool.

The Northbridge HSF thing is pretty much a gimmick, but the Clock Gen actually gets quite hot especially at overclocked speeds...
 
Yeah that is cool. My clock gen got so hot that I stuck a heatsink on there, and it still gets pretty hot. (there is no fan though)

And how much was it?
 
I wanna know how stable that board is OCd and not OCd???

I may get one, so....LMK???

Edblor

And Cheers man!!
 
Right...

it cost me about £130 including vat, which is approx $200.

The problem is that i have a pretty bad ghz tbird, despite it being blue. It refuses to boot at anything other than 10 and 10.5 multiplier, higher or lower. Benchmark-wise, I was running at 10.5 x 110 with the occasional crash on my old A7V. I'm running the same on this board, with 100% stability so far in windows and opengl. I've run the sandra burn-in tests with no problem. The cpu and multimedia benchmarks are pretty much identical as before, however, the memory benchmark is well down. i was getting 500/600 approx before (cas 2-2-2 110+33), now, with the same settings, I'm getting 450/530. I'm not finished tweaking, and I'll keep you updated.

One or two other things I noticed-

You have full FSB control in 1Mhz increments. ie, 90, 95 then 100 all the way up to 166 in 1MHz steps.

The memory bus can remain asynchronous of the fsb all the way up to 130Mhz fsb, when the memory would be running at about 163Mhz. After that, I assume the pci etc. dividers change from 1/3 to 1/4, and you can no longer run the buses asynchronously. ie, fsb 131, mem bus 131.

Also, when you run the buses asynchronously above 103Mhz fsb, the BIOS forces normal mode, as opposed to optimal. (if they're synchronous, there's no problem). This might be the root of my low mem scores in sandra. As soon as I can get this damn tbird to go to a different multiplier, I'll try a higher fsb.
 


<< Also, when you run the buses asynchronously above 103Mhz fsb, the BIOS forces normal mode, as opposed to optimal. (if they're synchronous, there's no problem). This might be the root of my low mem scores in sandra. As soon as I can get this damn tbird to go to a different multiplier, I'll try a higher fsb. >>



If you switch it from normal to optimal then RIGHT after without leaving that screen press F10 and save... it will keep it as optimal... but everytime you go into the BIOS you have to remeber to do it.
 
Thanks Dulanic, mem scores back to normal.

Any ideas about this annoying tbird, or does it just sound like not a very good chip?
 
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