Gigabyte GA-7ZM
Motherboard Specifications |
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CPU Interface |
Socket-A
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Chipset |
VIA KT133
VIA 8363 North Bridge VIA 686A South Bridge |
L2 Cache |
N/A (on-chip)
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Form Factor |
ATX
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Bus Speeds |
100
/ 102 / 104 / 106 / 107 / 108
109 / 110 / 111 / 112 / 133 |
Voltages Supported |
Auto Detect
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Memory Slots |
3 168-pin DIMM Slots
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Expansion Slots |
1 AGP Slot
3 PCI Slots 1 AMR Slot (shared) 0 ISA Slots |
AC'97 |
Analog Devices AD1881A
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BIOS |
AMI Simple BIOS 1.22
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Gigabyte's GA-7ZM certainly seems to be the board closest to being ready for production. Our evaluation sample was labeled revision 2.2 and didn't have any hand soldered components as we found on the rest of the boards. The GA-7ZM is a microATX board, although Gigabyte will have a full fledged ATX board on the market soon as well, most likely with additional features like DualBIOS.
Like other recent Gigabyte boards, the GA-7ZM uses the AMI Simple BIOS with a fully jumpered CPU setup. FSB speeds include 95 / 100 / 105 / 110 / 113 / 115 / 117 / 133, although our early overclocking experiments with the KT133 chipset have only been able to hit FSB speeds of 105 MHz. On the more mature Slot-A platforms, we were able to get in the vicinity of 110 MHz. The available FSB speeds and the stability of those settings could easily change with the final board. Core voltage adjustment was not available on this revision of the board.
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