incase anyone here missed it ASUS'S ASROCK MB to ship this month
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Anyone found info on the ASROCK K7VT2 ? They've been out for for a couple of months but haven't seen any review or even downloadable manual from the ASUS site.
In particualar, I'm looking for BIOS info / settings - is this sucker overclockable ?
Got a AMD 1600+ just waiting for a dual memory solution board (was just about to order an ECS).
Here the tech I've found so far:
Specifications:
Main Chipset
VIA KT266A (Northbridge) and VIA8235 (Southbridge)
Supports AMD Duron, Athlon, AthlonXP CPUs
Supports 266MHz Front-Side Bus speeds
Socket 462 motherboard
* Do not try to install a Socket 370/423 processor in the Socket-462. A Socket 370 processor such as the Pentium III, or Celeron, does not fit in the Socket 462.
Memory Support
2 DDR DIMM sockets and 2 DIMM sockets support (CAN NOT be used at the same time)
Two 184-pin 2.5V DDR* (Double Date Rate) SDRAM DDR266 (PC2100)/DDR333 (PC2700)or
Two 168-pin 3.3V SDRAM (PC133/PC100)
Maximum installed memory is 2GB
* DDR SDRAM provides 800MBps or 1 GBps data transfer depending on whether the bus is 100MHz or 133MHz. It doubles the rate to 1.6 GBps and 2.1 GBps by transferring data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional power and ground lines and requires 184-pin 2.5V unbuffered DIMM module rather than the 168-pin 3.3V unbuffered DIMMs used by SDRAM.
VGA
4X Accelerated Graphic Port, with Latch to securely fasten AGP Graphic Card
Fully compliant AGP 2.0 and PCI 2.2 specification
USB 2.0
Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
Compliant with Intel's Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification Revision 0.95
Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface Specification Revision 1.1
PCI multi-function device consists of two UHCI HOST Controller cores for full-/low-speed signaling and one EHCI Host Controller core for high-speed signaling
Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with integrated physical layer transceivers shared by UHCI and EHCI Host controller
Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Specification release 1.1
Legacy support for all downstream facing ports
Expansion Slots
One AGP 2.0 compliant 4X AGP slot
5 X 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface
Enhanced IDE Controller
Primary and Secondary IDE channels
Supports PIO (programmable input/output) modes 0 -4
Supports Multiword DMA modes
Supports UltraDMA 133/100/66/33 and BUS mastering
Power Supply and Power Management
ATX power supply connector
Meets ACPI 1.0b and APM 1.2 requirements, keyboard power/ and legacy PMU support
Supports Suspend switch, keyboard power on/off
Supports Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem, and Wake on Alarm
Onboard Sound System
AC97 specification compliant
Three Audio Jacks - Line-Out, Line-In and Microphone-In
Onboard LAN
Built-in 10 BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet LAN
Supports Wake On LAN
In compliance with ACPI 1.0 and the Network Device Class Power Management 1.0
High Performance achieved by 100Mbps clock generator and data recovery circuit for 100Mbps receiver
Onboard I/O Ports
One Parallel port
One Serial port
One MIDI/Game port
SIX USB 2.0 ports (FOUR back-panel ports, 1 USB header for Two extra ports)
Two PS/2 ports
One audio jack for Microphone, Line-in, and Line-out
One infrared port connector for the optional module
Onboard Flash ROM (BIOS)
AMI 2MB BIOS flash ROM
CPU parameters and memory timing
In particualar, I'm looking for BIOS info / settings - is this sucker overclockable ?
Got a AMD 1600+ just waiting for a dual memory solution board (was just about to order an ECS).
Here the tech I've found so far:
Specifications:
Main Chipset
VIA KT266A (Northbridge) and VIA8235 (Southbridge)
Supports AMD Duron, Athlon, AthlonXP CPUs
Supports 266MHz Front-Side Bus speeds
Socket 462 motherboard
* Do not try to install a Socket 370/423 processor in the Socket-462. A Socket 370 processor such as the Pentium III, or Celeron, does not fit in the Socket 462.
Memory Support
2 DDR DIMM sockets and 2 DIMM sockets support (CAN NOT be used at the same time)
Two 184-pin 2.5V DDR* (Double Date Rate) SDRAM DDR266 (PC2100)/DDR333 (PC2700)or
Two 168-pin 3.3V SDRAM (PC133/PC100)
Maximum installed memory is 2GB
* DDR SDRAM provides 800MBps or 1 GBps data transfer depending on whether the bus is 100MHz or 133MHz. It doubles the rate to 1.6 GBps and 2.1 GBps by transferring data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. DDR SDRAM uses additional power and ground lines and requires 184-pin 2.5V unbuffered DIMM module rather than the 168-pin 3.3V unbuffered DIMMs used by SDRAM.
VGA
4X Accelerated Graphic Port, with Latch to securely fasten AGP Graphic Card
Fully compliant AGP 2.0 and PCI 2.2 specification
USB 2.0
Compliant with Universal Serial Bus Specification Revision 2.0
Compliant with Intel's Enhanced Host Controller Interface Specification Revision 0.95
Compliant with Universal Host Controller Interface Specification Revision 1.1
PCI multi-function device consists of two UHCI HOST Controller cores for full-/low-speed signaling and one EHCI Host Controller core for high-speed signaling
Root hub consists 4 downstream facing ports with integrated physical layer transceivers shared by UHCI and EHCI Host controller
Support PCI-Bus Power Management Interface Specification release 1.1
Legacy support for all downstream facing ports
Expansion Slots
One AGP 2.0 compliant 4X AGP slot
5 X 32-bit PCI slots for PCI 2.2 compliant bus interface
Enhanced IDE Controller
Primary and Secondary IDE channels
Supports PIO (programmable input/output) modes 0 -4
Supports Multiword DMA modes
Supports UltraDMA 133/100/66/33 and BUS mastering
Power Supply and Power Management
ATX power supply connector
Meets ACPI 1.0b and APM 1.2 requirements, keyboard power/ and legacy PMU support
Supports Suspend switch, keyboard power on/off
Supports Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem, and Wake on Alarm
Onboard Sound System
AC97 specification compliant
Three Audio Jacks - Line-Out, Line-In and Microphone-In
Onboard LAN
Built-in 10 BaseT/100BaseTX Ethernet LAN
Supports Wake On LAN
In compliance with ACPI 1.0 and the Network Device Class Power Management 1.0
High Performance achieved by 100Mbps clock generator and data recovery circuit for 100Mbps receiver
Onboard I/O Ports
One Parallel port
One Serial port
One MIDI/Game port
SIX USB 2.0 ports (FOUR back-panel ports, 1 USB header for Two extra ports)
Two PS/2 ports
One audio jack for Microphone, Line-in, and Line-out
One infrared port connector for the optional module
Onboard Flash ROM (BIOS)
AMI 2MB BIOS flash ROM
CPU parameters and memory timing
Courtesy is always a plus.
But at an estimated cost of $45 - $55 per board, I don't think the idea is KT2000ABC 45 terabytes/sec bleeding edge hardware.
These Asian companies often have a tough time 'nailing' the Western marketing thing. Abit the Kid? Lots of tacky lingos and stuff. lol!
You'd think they would just pay a few bucks to a US advertising/marketing firm for a little input. But then again, having a tacky lingo doesn't seem to hurt them all that much, either.
aaronix has this board for sale. $69 plus $10 for shipping. I don't know if they are any good so please don't order unless you know something about them.
The board for-sale
Also is it me or does it look like the board ONLY has a 1 phase power supply or a VERY small 2 phase?? Will this be able to run a T-Bred CPU? and how high can it go. I know it can't do 333fsb CPU's but....
OK is thei REALLY a kt266a chipset?? If so how can it run DDR333 (PC2700)??? Is this really a KT333 that only has a 1/4 divider??
But I can't believe someone toke this long to come out with a board like this. Not everybody wants the newwest fastest thing. I say this as I am checking e-mail and writing this from my Dual Athlon system
The board for-sale
Also is it me or does it look like the board ONLY has a 1 phase power supply or a VERY small 2 phase?? Will this be able to run a T-Bred CPU? and how high can it go. I know it can't do 333fsb CPU's but....
OK is thei REALLY a kt266a chipset?? If so how can it run DDR333 (PC2700)??? Is this really a KT333 that only has a 1/4 divider??
But I can't believe someone toke this long to come out with a board like this. Not everybody wants the newwest fastest thing. I say this as I am checking e-mail and writing this from my Dual Athlon system
A 'three-phase' power supply is not a necessity for either T-birds or XP processors. Competently designed double-filtered power circuitry is adequate.
Asynchronous memory bus. 133MHz FSB + 33MHz DRAM clock. Yes, contrary to popular belief, the VIA VT8366A supports asynchronous memory bus. Why no mainboard companies chose not to enable it until now, I cannot say.
I'm upgrading two kid systems, looking for a cheap solution, have everything from old systems. just got two AMD 1600+.
I'd give one of these a try if I could findout if the bios support OC ?
anyone know -
I'd give one of these a try if I could findout if the bios support OC ?
anyone know -
I don't know about OC but this board should be a very high on the list as it uses the 8235 southbridge which has several fix's and improvements over the 8233 and such.
well got a reply from amptron:
"Asrock K7VT2 does not support overclocking.
Chaintech 7VJL support. Please check this page: http://www.amptron.com/html/M7VJL.html"
To bad, wonder how hard it would be for ASrock to add that feature ? Can't be too hard, places like "Mr.Bios" do it.
anyway, that M7VJL has some interesting software specifically for OC - wonder if it's any good ?
Anyone tried it ?
"Asrock K7VT2 does not support overclocking.
Chaintech 7VJL support. Please check this page: http://www.amptron.com/html/M7VJL.html"
To bad, wonder how hard it would be for ASrock to add that feature ? Can't be too hard, places like "Mr.Bios" do it.
anyway, that M7VJL has some interesting software specifically for OC - wonder if it's any good ?
Anyone tried it ?
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