Abit KA7-100 press release

Zoals je gisteren al in deze nieuwsposting hebt kunnen zien, is de KA7-100 met additionele ATA100 controller realiteit geworden. Aanvankelijk werd het bestaan van de plank nog ontkend door Abit, maar gezien de vroege geruchten over het bestaan ervan en de uitsparingen in de KA7 layout was het overduidelijk dat Abit plannen had voor een KA7 met ATA100 controller. Vandaag werd de plank officieel aangekondigd in onderstaande press release:

Revealing the next version of the award winning KA7, ABIT is announcing the KA7-100. This board is designed to support AMD-K7 Athlon Slot A 200MHz FSB Processors using the VIA VT8371(KX133) /VIA 686A chipset. It also supports all normal industry standard functions for motherboards such as Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI), AGP 4X and 100/133MHz SDRAM Memory Bus Settings. The KA7-100 uses four 168-pin DIMM sockets supporting PC100/PC133 SDRAM modules up to 2 Gigabytes MAX. (8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512MB SDRAM). In addition, ABIT has added a new level of stability and performance with their famous 6 chip Data Buffer Set with ECC support.

ATA/100

Ultra ATA/100, or Ultra DMA/100, is an extension of the current Ultra ATA/33 interface. This new high-speed interface has a 100 Mbytes/sec transfer rate and maximized disk performance under the current PCI local bus environment.

Multi I/O Functions

The KA7-100 has on board Bus Master IDE Ports offering 2+2 Channels of Bus Master IDE which support up to four Ultra DMA 33/66/100 devices. Also supported are 6 PCI slots and 1 ISA slot for maximum upgradeability. While most other boards only have 5 PCI slots, ABIT has added an extra PCI slot, making the KA7-100 the most expandable and upgradeable board in its class. In addition to the normal serial and parallel ports, the KA7-100 has 2 USB ports PLUS an extra header for 2 extra USB channels, built-in Wake on LAN/Wake on Modem header, built-in IrDA TX/RX header and one Thermal Sensor Cable Included for hardware monitoring.