KG7 Release Date

[WhiteKnight]

I realize that this topic is being beaten to death, but for those that are interested, I got this email from Abit today.

<email>
Dear customer,
We apologize that the model you requested will be available for the market in the Mid of July. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause you, we are always striving to provide the best product with more development complexity than other mfrs.

Sincerely,
ABIT
</email>

Looks like we've still got another month. I dunno, this is gonna be real tight for me. Don't know if I can wait...

 

[salman327]

I'm thinking screw Abit, and maybe i'll just get me the new SiS735 or nvidia chipset. By the way, which one do you think will end up being better?

 

[MacaroneePenguin]

if anyone is planning to get the KG7 and one main reason being the 4 memory slots...

I've read that if you plan to use all four you need registered ram.

Might not be a big deal for some but I thought it would be useful info.

 

[goul]

Anyone have an update?

 

[BMW330ci]

Yeah..early July most likely.

 

[Einz]

nvidia chipset is going to be much more wanted, just because the onboard vid. OEMs are going to guzzle that up.

 

[Pers]

Why is everyone waiting for the Abit board?? Recently Abit boards have been doing pretty bad...

 

[Yozza]

Pers,

That's exactly what I thought
I dunno why everyone thinks ABIT's AMD761/VIA686B board will be miles ahead of everything else. It's the same chipset used...

I think the Epox 8K7A is better actually, especially for overclckers, as the core voltage goes upto 2.2V, and RAM upto 2.9V.

Yoz

 

[BadBllock]

Ok. I Think too.
Actuality, Epox is better for overclock.

 

[chainbolt]

<< Ok. I Think too.
Actuality, Epox is better for overclock. >>



How do you know this? The KG7 is not out yet. Epox on the other hand has just recently made some good boards, for a long time this was a no-name company, whose boards nobody wanted to buy. It's true that Abit had some problems lately, but let's see: the story starts new with every new board. And it was ABIT who made the market for overclocking boards

Another point, I feel that this ranting about AMD 760 boards is quite useless. These boards are built exactly in the same way with the same design, and using even exactly the same core components. The differences are minimal, if at all existing. It would be more interesting to compare the 7DXR, the 8AK7 and the KG7 with the revised KT266 chipset. It looks like they finally are going to make this chipset work, and in theory it's y superior to the AMD 760 chipset (in theory)

 

[funks]

The SHUTTLE AK31 also has 4 DDR DIMM SLOTS (needs to be registered).. It also has all the overclocking options in the BIOS, make sure you get REV 2 though..

Only thing missing from it is an ONBOARD raid controller, which I don't personally miss, IDE software raid is a joke..

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if anyone is planning to get the KG7 and one main reason being the 4 memory slots...

I've read that if you plan to use all four you need registered ram.

Might not be a big deal for some but I thought it would be useful info.