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Review: ABIT AI7 Springdale

by Tarinder Sandhu on 1 December 2003, 00:00

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Specifications

  • Supports all Socket 478 CPUs (400FSB & 533FSB & 800FSB officially)
  • Hyper-Threading support
  • Chipset

    • North bridge: Intel i865PE MCH
    • South bridge: Intel ICH5R

    System Memory

    • 4 x 184-pin DDR SDRAM
    • DDR200 / DDR266 / DDR333/ DDR400 support @ 2.50v - 2.60v (Dual Channel)
    • 4GB maximum system RAM
    • Supports configurable ECC function

    Slots

    • AGP slot, 8x AGP compliant
    • 5 x 32-bit PCI 33MHz slots

    On-board peripherals - I/O

    • 1 Serial port
    • 1 Parallel port
    • Mic-In, Line-In, Line-Out, Centre/Bass, Rear Out
    • RJ-45 LAN Port (Realtek RTL8100C PCI 10/100 LAN)
    • 4 USB2.0 connectors on the back panel
    • 1 FireWire 1394a connector on the back panel (6-pin)
    • PS/2 ports
    • Optical In and Out S/PDIF connections

    On-board storage

    • An IDE controller on the ICH5R chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA100/66/33 operation modes
    • ICH5R provides 2 x ATA150 Serial ports (1 drive per port). Can only be configured for independent, RAID0 and RAID1 running.

    Integrated Components

    • Realtek RTL8100C PCI 10/100 LAN
    • Texas Instruments 3-port FireWire controller
    • Realtek ALC658 5.1 sound CODEC
    • Headers for another 4 USB2.0 portsio
    • 4 usable fan headers
    • IrDA, CD-In, Aux-In connectors

    BIOS & Voltages

    • ABIT Softmenu BIOS
    • FSB speeds of 100Mhz - 412Mhz (quad-pumped for 200FSB CPUs)
    • Default - 1.975v Vcore, adjustable in 0.025v increments (for a 3.2GHz ES CPU)
    • 2.6v - 2.9v Vmem adjustable in 0.1v increments
    • 1.5v - 1.8v VAGP adjustment
    • AGP/PCI/SATA options at 66/33/100, 72/36/100, 80/40/100