Hello Everyone,
I have just installed a ISG-7 motherboard. I must say the the layout of the board is very poor and made me really mad. I think I will not buy another ABIT because of such POOR board layout. Also, the color of the board is S#!ty.
I didn't have much time to play with the board yet.
I have on it a 2.4C @ 2.4C, didn't do any OCing yet, not until I make sure everything is ok.
My memory is XMS twinpack 3200C CAS2,3,3,6. FSB is 200MHz (=800MHz).
My questions are:
1) What tool should I use to flash the BIOS?
2) From your experience what is the best BIOS version for this out there?
Notes:
1) The SATA takes up the place of one IDE drive. So, having SATA controller on the PCI bus is a good thing. Why? so you can use the south bridge for RAID SATA hardrives, and then you can hook up the optical drivers the onboard PCI SATA controller(which I'm assuming have much less trafic than the HDD). You need a serialle (or whatever is called), to connect the optical drives. If I'm mistaken please correct me.
2) Never use and old power supply with modern MB like these. The power supply should give clean (no distortions or harmonics) so you can over clock the FSB. Power supply is VERY important to make your OCing such boards is clean and safe with no major glitching.
3) The case/power supply I'm using for this board is Antec Sonata. It comes with a 380W power supply wich I think is enough for any/all the things you can install in this case. The case is high quality and has very low dB noise levels. In that case they use low rpm 120mm fan to cool the case and reduce the noise. Also, the hard drive mounts are padded with rubbers to reduce the noise generated from 7000 or 10000 rpm drives.
4) This board is cheaper than others. But if reverse time, I would get the new ASUS 875 board. Why? Because of board layout (that makes a wire jungle in the Sonata case), and because of the ugly board color that comes with.
5) I have inspected/scanned the board components and they seem to use relatively high quality stuff, they could use better stuff for some things, but that would make the board expensive. Bottom line is, I wouldn't use this board for serious applications.
This is my initial input on the IS7-G board. I will post more each time I work more on it.
ICMAN
I have just installed a ISG-7 motherboard. I must say the the layout of the board is very poor and made me really mad. I think I will not buy another ABIT because of such POOR board layout. Also, the color of the board is S#!ty.
I didn't have much time to play with the board yet.
I have on it a 2.4C @ 2.4C, didn't do any OCing yet, not until I make sure everything is ok.
My memory is XMS twinpack 3200C CAS2,3,3,6. FSB is 200MHz (=800MHz).
My questions are:
1) What tool should I use to flash the BIOS?
2) From your experience what is the best BIOS version for this out there?
Notes:
1) The SATA takes up the place of one IDE drive. So, having SATA controller on the PCI bus is a good thing. Why? so you can use the south bridge for RAID SATA hardrives, and then you can hook up the optical drivers the onboard PCI SATA controller(which I'm assuming have much less trafic than the HDD). You need a serialle (or whatever is called), to connect the optical drives. If I'm mistaken please correct me.
2) Never use and old power supply with modern MB like these. The power supply should give clean (no distortions or harmonics) so you can over clock the FSB. Power supply is VERY important to make your OCing such boards is clean and safe with no major glitching.
3) The case/power supply I'm using for this board is Antec Sonata. It comes with a 380W power supply wich I think is enough for any/all the things you can install in this case. The case is high quality and has very low dB noise levels. In that case they use low rpm 120mm fan to cool the case and reduce the noise. Also, the hard drive mounts are padded with rubbers to reduce the noise generated from 7000 or 10000 rpm drives.
4) This board is cheaper than others. But if reverse time, I would get the new ASUS 875 board. Why? Because of board layout (that makes a wire jungle in the Sonata case), and because of the ugly board color that comes with.
5) I have inspected/scanned the board components and they seem to use relatively high quality stuff, they could use better stuff for some things, but that would make the board expensive. Bottom line is, I wouldn't use this board for serious applications.
This is my initial input on the IS7-G board. I will post more each time I work more on it.
ICMAN
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