 GA-7ZX VIA MAINBOARD
A VIA mainboard with BX
performance
Manufacturer
- Gigabyte
Tuesday, September 12, 2000
- Hilbert Hagedoorn
In General
The GA-7ZX is a Socket-A Thunderbird Athlon/Duron based ATX mainboard
with KT133 VIA chipset. Package is bundled with a Driver CD, cables
and manual.
The profile
In the past we have tested Gigabyte's videocards with a lot of
pleasure. Gigabyte is well know for their high quality peripherals. A
while ago, after a meeting here at the site we decided to expand the
site's reviews into a more diverse review selection of tested
hardware. Therefore the outcome was also to test and review
motherboards. At the current time we will bring you motherboard
reviews from, ABit, Soyo, Asus and of course Gigabyte. Today we will
look at an AMD Athlon Thunderbird/Duron compatible Socket-A version
mainboard from Gigabyte, the GA-7ZX.
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Motherboard
Specifications
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| CPU
Interface |
AMD
Socket-A Thunderbird/Duron |
| Chipset |
VIA
VT8363 (KT133) Memory/AGP/PCI Controller (PAC)
VIA VT82C686A PCI Super-I/O Integrated Peripheral
Controller (PSIPC)
Creative CT5880 PCI sound chip (4 channel audio) |
| L2
Cache |
N/A
(on-chip) 256K/64K 2nd cache on die |
| Form
Factor |
ATX |
| Bus
Speeds |
95*/100/105*/110*/113*/115*/117*/133*
MHz FSB |
| Clock
Multipliers |
Auto
detect 500MHz~1GHz and faster |
| Voltages
Supported |
Auto
Detect |
| Memory
Slots |
3
168pin DIMM Slots up to 1.5 GB |
| Expansion
Slots |
1
AMR Slots
1 AGP Slot
5 PCI Slots
1 ISA Slots (1 Shared with PCI) |
| BIOS |
Award
green P&P |
| I/O |
2
x Ultra DMA 33/66 bus master IDE ports on board
1 x FDD, 2 x COM, 1 x LPT, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 Mouse on board
1 x Joystick, 1 x Line-in, 1 x Line-out, 1 x MIC on board
2 x USB ports on board
2 x USB ports by cable (optional accessory)
IrDA TX / RX header ready |
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