X-Bit Labs weet ons te melden dat de release van de KG7 AMD 760 borden van Abit pas in begin 2001 zal plaatsvinden (en dus niet meer dit jaar). De officiële aankondiging laat nu niet meer lang op zich wachten. De KG7 zal net als de KT7 ook beschikbaar komen een RAID uitvoering. De verdere specs zijn 3x DDR DIMM slots, 1x AGP, 6x PCI en een lief ISA slot. Daarnaast kunnen wij tweakers weer aan de slag met SoftMenu III.
Although ABIT showed DDR mainboards at COMDEX, they were all intended for OEMs and won't appear in retail. However, ABIT is also going to make retail DDR boards as well. They will be: KG7 and KG7-RAID. These two mainboards will be based on AMD-760 chipset and will be distinguished by an IDE RAID HPT370 controller, which will be installed on KG7-RAID. The preliminary specs of the boards, which we received from one of our sources, look as follows: 3 DDR DIMM slots, 1 AGP 4x, 6 PCI and 1 ISA slot. Of course, the boards will support SoftMenu III technology including the possibility to change the FSB frequency with 1MHz increments, clock multiplier, Vio and Vcore. ABIT will also use an active cooling solution to cool down the chipset North Bridge.The mainboards will be announced in the nearest future and will appear in retail in the beginning of 2001. We think that ABIT does the right thing. They don't announce their AMD-760 mainboards in advance and don't have to explain why their products do not appear in retail, what the others do now.