Here it is just bought me this board today with a 1.2 t birdy pc 266 and 256 crucial pc 2100 ram, now just gotta get a good power supply. Cpu support is now up to 2.0 I have been told, it will take the 1.4 no prob.
A friend has this board and benchmarks may be behind the 761 chipset by 1% -2%. stability has been great and he is running a 1.2 at 1.33 with a a delta cfm38 heatsink. Cost is less plus you get three dimm slots which is a bonus. I have found MSI support to be good and they are on the 5th or 6th bios release. I had considered the K7 Master but they have only updated bios a second time and I see a few complaining about this issue. Only thing I am concerned with is the USB dropout issue cause I am not that computer savy yet to figure these quirky things out LOL. I have switched from Intel PIII 700 running at 875 on an MSI i815 mobo which I have had no problems, but gonna give AMD a try!! I bought the board (non raid version) for $168.00 canadian here in Vancouver BC Canada (about $110 US) thought that is pretty good deal.
CPU
Support Socket A for AMD® Athlon™ / Duron™ / Palomino™ Processors
Supports 600MHz ~ 1.4GHz processor
Chipset
VIA® VT8633 (552BGA) Chipset
-- FSB @ 200/266MHz
-- AGP 4x and PCI Advanced high performance memory Controller
VIA® VT8233 (376BGA) Chipset
-- High Bandwidth Vlink Client controller
-- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC (Optional CNR card support)
-- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster /Direct Sound AC'97 audio
-- Ultra DMA 33/66/100 master mode PCI EIDE controller
-- ACPI
FSB
Supports 66/100/133MHz FSB
Main Memory
Support six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR DIMM.
Support a maximum memory size up to 3GB.
Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM
Slots
One CNR (Communication Network Riser).
One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) or AGP Pro slot.
¥° Note : AGP Pro only for K7T266 Pro-R
-- AGP specifcation compliant.
-- Support AGP 2.0 1x/2x/4x
Five 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots.
Supports 3.3v/5v PCI bus Interface.
On-Board IDE
An IDE controller on the VIA VT8233 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 operation modes. Can connect up to four IDE devices.
Audio
Chip integrated (2 channel S/W audio)
--Direct Sound AC97 Audio
On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
-- 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and
2.88M bytes.
-- 2 Serial ports (COM A+COM B)
-- 1 Parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
-- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
-- 1 Audio/Game port
BIOS
The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.
Dimension
30.4 cm(L) x 23.5 cm(W)ATX Form Factor
Mounting
6 mounting holes.
Special Functions
USB Interface (Optional)
USB 2.0 HC On Board (Optional)
-- Support 4 USB 2.0 ports via extemal bracket
USB PC2PC Networking Function (Optional)
-- Controlled by USB PC2PC Controller
-- Supported by the JUSB2 pin header
6 USB Ports (Optional)
-- Controlled by VT8233 Soughbirdge
-- 2 rear ports and 4 port supported by JUSB2 & JUSB3
Cisco Kid
A friend has this board and benchmarks may be behind the 761 chipset by 1% -2%. stability has been great and he is running a 1.2 at 1.33 with a a delta cfm38 heatsink. Cost is less plus you get three dimm slots which is a bonus. I have found MSI support to be good and they are on the 5th or 6th bios release. I had considered the K7 Master but they have only updated bios a second time and I see a few complaining about this issue. Only thing I am concerned with is the USB dropout issue cause I am not that computer savy yet to figure these quirky things out LOL. I have switched from Intel PIII 700 running at 875 on an MSI i815 mobo which I have had no problems, but gonna give AMD a try!! I bought the board (non raid version) for $168.00 canadian here in Vancouver BC Canada (about $110 US) thought that is pretty good deal.
CPU
Support Socket A for AMD® Athlon™ / Duron™ / Palomino™ Processors
Supports 600MHz ~ 1.4GHz processor
Chipset
VIA® VT8633 (552BGA) Chipset
-- FSB @ 200/266MHz
-- AGP 4x and PCI Advanced high performance memory Controller
VIA® VT8233 (376BGA) Chipset
-- High Bandwidth Vlink Client controller
-- Integrated Faster Ethernet LPC (Optional CNR card support)
-- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster /Direct Sound AC'97 audio
-- Ultra DMA 33/66/100 master mode PCI EIDE controller
-- ACPI
FSB
Supports 66/100/133MHz FSB
Main Memory
Support six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR DIMM.
Support a maximum memory size up to 3GB.
Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM
Slots
One CNR (Communication Network Riser).
One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) or AGP Pro slot.
¥° Note : AGP Pro only for K7T266 Pro-R
-- AGP specifcation compliant.
-- Support AGP 2.0 1x/2x/4x
Five 32-bit Master PCI Bus slots.
Supports 3.3v/5v PCI bus Interface.
On-Board IDE
An IDE controller on the VIA VT8233 chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA 33/66/100 operation modes. Can connect up to four IDE devices.
Audio
Chip integrated (2 channel S/W audio)
--Direct Sound AC97 Audio
On-Board Peripherals
On-Board Peripherals include:
-- 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and
2.88M bytes.
-- 2 Serial ports (COM A+COM B)
-- 1 Parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
-- 1 IrDA connector for SIR/ASKIR/HPSIR
-- 1 Audio/Game port
BIOS
The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.
Dimension
30.4 cm(L) x 23.5 cm(W)ATX Form Factor
Mounting
6 mounting holes.
Special Functions
USB Interface (Optional)
USB 2.0 HC On Board (Optional)
-- Support 4 USB 2.0 ports via extemal bracket
USB PC2PC Networking Function (Optional)
-- Controlled by USB PC2PC Controller
-- Supported by the JUSB2 pin header
6 USB Ports (Optional)
-- Controlled by VT8233 Soughbirdge
-- 2 rear ports and 4 port supported by JUSB2 & JUSB3
Cisco Kid
