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Review: ABIT IC7-G

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 June 2003, 00:00 4.0

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Specifications

Processors

  • Supports Intel Socket 478 CPUs ( 533FSB & 800FSB officially) 400FSB Northwoods appear to work
  • Hyper-Threading support

Chipset

  • North bridge: Intel I875P MCH
  • South bridge: Intel ICH5/R

System Memory

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

Slots

  • AGP slot, 8x AGP compliant (1.5v support only)
  • 5 x 32-bit PCI 33MHz slots

On-board peripherals - I/O

  • 1 Serial port
  • 1 Parallel port
  • 5 Audio Jacks for Realtek ALC650 sound CODEC
  • RJ-45 LAN Port (Intel 825474EI (CSA))
  • 4 USB2.0 connectors on the back panel
  • 1 FireWire (1394a) port on back panel
  • S/PIDF In and Out (optical)
  • 4 usable fan headers
  • PS/2 ports

On-board storage

  • An IDE controller on the ICH5/R chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA100/66/33 operation modes
  • Silicon Image Sil3112 S-ATA controller (PCI based) provides dual channel S-ATA operation in either standalone, RAID0 or RAID1 abilities
  • ICH5/R provides 2 x ATA150 Serial ports (1 drive per port). Can be configured for independent or RAID0 functions

Integrated Components

  • Intel 82547EI fifth-generation CSA Gigabit LAN
  • Realtek ALC650 AC'97 v2.2 6-channel sound with S/PDIF (provided on back panel)
  • Texas Instruments 3-port FireWire controller
  • GAME connector
  • 2 x FireWire headers
  • Header for another 4 USB2.0 portsio

BIOS & Voltages

  • ABIT Softmenu III
  • FSB speeds of 100Mhz - 412Mhz (quad-pumped) IC7_13 BIOS
  • 1.55v - 1.925v Vcore. Voltage in 0.025v increments
  • 2.5v - 2.8v Vmem adjustable in 0.1v increments
  • 1.55 - 1.65v VAGP adjustment
  • Fix AGP/PCI option and variable AGP setting from 66-96MHz

Package contents

  • ABIT IC7-G motherboard (305mm * 245mm)
  • I/O Shield
  • 2 manuals
  • Floppy containing S-ATA pre-OS drivers
  • 1 x Black rounded ATA133 cable
  • 1 x Black rounded floppy Cable
  • 1 x Multibracket (2 x USB2.0 and 2 x FireWire 6-pin ports)
  • Driver and utility CD with 1012 inf drivers
  • 2 x S-ATA cable and power cables
  • 1 x Serillel P-ATA-to-S-ATA converter and power cable.

Decent features and a decent bundle bring promise to this motherboard.