VR-Zone heeft als eerste een review gemaakt van Abit's Pentium 4 bordje. De TH7-RAID i850 plank heeft een 1xAGP, 5xPCI, 1xCNR, 4xRIMM layout en komt met AC97 geluid en optioneel een 10/100Mbit ethernet controller. Opvallend zijn verder de Debug en Diagnostic LED's die je info geven over eventuele problemen. Voor het RAID-gedeelte is uiteraard weer gekozen voor de High Point HTP370 controller.
Dankzij (het oude) SoftMenu II wist de reviewer zijn 1,4GHz Pentium 4 jumperless op 1,68GHz te zetten (14 x 120MHz). Dit resulteerde in een flinke performancewinst, die hij uitgebreid vergeleek met een Athlon 1,33GHz systeem. Helaas kun je in het verhaal verder geen vergelijkende benchmarks vinden met andere Pentium 4 plankjes. De conclusie is uiteindelijk erg positief te noemen:
ABIT is certainly not giving this Pentium 4 board a miss although they have come out pretty late on that where ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, DFI has already launch their P4 solutions some time back. However, what is most important is the stability and performance coupled with good overclocking features that will make a board stand out against the rest. ABIT has very much success on their KT7A boards although they are not among the first to launch that due to the nice overclocking features and great performance. This time round, ABIT brings you their latest solution for Pentium 4, the ABIT TH7-RAID that is based on the Intel 850 chipset with RAID functions. i have included a number of benchmarks to fully test out the Pentium 4 power in most aspects and i will add in more benchmarks of other platforms like the latest KT266 DDR platform in time to come. As usual, i will emphasize on overclocking of the Pentium 4 on this TH7-RAID board and how will it affect the benchmarks scores.[...] If you are going to run the Pentium 4 as it is, that would mean in most of the benchmarks a P4 clocked at 1.4Ghz would lost out to the TBird 1.33Ghz so when you get a Pentium 4 be sure to get a good board like the ABIT TH7-RAID to allow higher overclockability of the processor. The performance is very good when the Pentium 4 1.4Ghz is overclocked to 1.68Ghz. The inclusion of the onboard Debug LEDs, Diagnostic LEDs, and the Power On and reset buttons are definitely a plus.
Pros:
- Debug LED, PWR_ON & Reset Buttons, HDD & Power LED onboard
- Highpoint 370 RAID 0/1/0+1 support
- 3 USB Ports
- Ample space around the socket with no capacitors or components blocking
- 4 RIMMs slots
- Hinged Mounting for proper seating of cooler
- Jumperless
Cons:
- No AGP Pro Slot & AGP retention mechanism
- No VIO voltage tweaking
- Softmenu III is preferred
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