Andy van BXBoads heeft in afwachting van zijn review al wat opmerkingen over de Abit KA7 op z'n frontpage gemikt. Hij heeft de plank nu bijna stabiel op 125MHz met een Athlon 650!
Testing on the Abit KA7 has been continuing, and I'm feeling rather sleepy after an 18 hour stint on this. Results are looking very nice now, and I've found a sweet component combination that is even allowing me to boot the 0.18u Athlon 650 @ 815/125! Not bad at all, and although things are not 100% stable at that speed (almost certainly due to the L2 limitations of my test CPU), its seems to be 100% stable at 6.5 x 120, which is the best I've done on any board to date!I do have concerns about memory scores, these are much lower than the ones I've obtained on my reference VIA Apollo Pro 133A system, although using the +33 PCICLK option, gives a decent enough boost. But overall the board is looking very nice, and I think it is going to displace the Epox EP-7KXA in my own personal system. One thing is for sure, without wanting to pre-empt the review, this is the board that Athlon overclockers should choose. [break] Misschien is het voor mij toch interessant om een paar low level memory bechmarks op de KA7 en K7V te draaien
. In een eerdere post van 11 april schrijft Andy trouwens dat hij z'n KA7 een maximale FSB van 109MHz kan trekken. Ik ben benieuwd hoe hij er nu opeens 125MHz uit heeft gekregen: [/break] As an overclocking board - well so far, the best I've done is 109Mhz with a 0.18u and 0.25u Athlon 650. This is 2 Mhz better than the K7V, but 6 Mhz -worse- than the best I can do with the Epox EP-7KXA, which runs at 745/115 Mhz effortlessly at 1.75v on the 0.25u Athlon, and at 1.65v with the 0.18u Athlon.