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Review: Leadtek K7NCR18G Pro

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 29 March 2003, 00:00 5.0

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Specification






* Supports 200/266/333MHz(DDR) FSB for AMD Athlon/XP and Duron CPU
* 128-bit DualDDR memory architecture doubles the memory bandwidth for enhancing total system and graphics performance
* Provide header for Smart Card Reader Interface and application program
* Hardware O.T.S offers CPU Over Temperature Shutdown function to protect CPU from burnout
* X-BIOS II provides Vcore, Vmem and AGP Vddq adjustment for best performance stetting
* GeForce4 MX graphics
* Support an extra AGP 8X interface for high-end 3D Graphics card
* Built-in hardware Dolby Digital (AC3) Encoder for providing 6-channel surround sound via a SPDIF interface.
* USB2.0 controller with two USB2.0 ports onboard
* Supports IEEE1394 interface
* Supports pin header for nView. (Two independent displays, one for CRT, the other for CRT /DVI / TV)
* Two Ultra ATA133 IDE dual channel interfaces, data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec
* 10/100Mbps LAN interface onboard. (LAN version only)

You can check out the entire specification on Leadtek's website here but I'll go over what that list doesn't cover.

1 x AGP3.0 compliant AGP8X 1.5V slot, 4 x 32bit, 33MHz PCI slots and a single ACR slot (more on that on the next page) take care of slot based peripheral expansion. No RAID on the Pro version of the K7NCR18G means that a pair of IDE ports for 4 device ATA133 support from the MCP-T southbridge are present for drive duty. 3 DIMM slots take care of the memory support, up to 3GB (1GB per slot for the mathematically disadvantaged) in total and colour coded so you get your TwinBank configuration right first time.

The box contains a variety of extras for the board to finish things off so lets take a look at what you get.