Chris van SlotA.com had tijd over en heeft een review in elkaar gedraaid van het nieuwe Soltek 75KV socket A moederbord, vanzelfsprekend gebaseerd op de VIA KT133 chipset. Dit is één van de eerste Socket A moederborden die echt te koop zijn (ook in Nederland? Ja, ook in Nederland). De eerste indruk is goed. Er zijn wat overclockmogelijkheden met het bord, maar natuurlijk nog geen veranderbare multiplier:
The 75KV has settings for the memory bus via 5 dip switches near the bios batteryas well as core voltage settings via the bios and VIO voltage settings through jumpers.
Memory bus settings of 100/103/105/110/112/115/120/124/133/140/ 150MHz are available via the dip swiches. The voltage settings run from 1.50V to 1.85V in .025V increments. The VIO settings include 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6V.
In testing I was able to get the 800MHz Tbird up to a 105MHz bus with the fastest possible ram settings. 110MHz would lock up in Windows so by upping the voltage to 1.75 and lowering the CAS to 3 I was able to get into Windows with stability.[break]Het bord bleek ook nog eens erg stabiel te zijn, en de conclusie van deze review was dan ook zeer positief.[/break]This board has a nice configuration of slots, and has almost as good of a bus speed range as the MSI K7T Pro, but a much wider range of of voltage settings for both the core and VIO. It definitely is vying with the K7T Pro as the current Socket A over-clocking champion. It also has the nice included Norton software and the thermal probe and external USB connector, all of which can come in handy.
The 75KV is an excellent follow up to the 77KV and is a welcome addition to the Socket A family. This is a great board to base a Tbird or Duron system on it, and will satisfy the most basic needs of the over-clocker until a way to modify the clock multiplier is realized. The extra hardware and voltage settings put it ahead of the pack in my book.