KR7A RAID DRIVER

It was a review sample however and I'm sure they are included in the proper retail box. Based on Aquanox, Massive Developments underwater action game, Aquamark is a short graphics intensive benchmark that makes heavy use of DirectX8 class rendering features. Using cold air to chill the water passing through the radiator I was able to drop the temperature of the processor to around 20c load, regardless of CPU speed. Anand takes a guess that the internal data buffers in the chipset have been deepened, allowing a more uninterrupted data flow between CPU and the memory controller and on to main system memory. This removes the need for a floppy drive altogether since booting is all I use them for. AquaNox - AquaMark V2.

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The manual is typical Abit, easy to read, easy to find what you need, good diagrams and well written.

No Interruptions Day Shortbread. Here's the fruits of the labour. With the review out of the way and couple of days to spend with the processor pushing it a bit rk7a, I decided to see if I could break my personal 3DMark best of WindowsXP, Mhz, XP Mhz x What was the best tech product of ?

Abit KR7A-RAID KTA Motherboard Review

Not bad for Rwid new baby and simple watercooling. I was hoping for the usual USB ports too, but they weren't present. While the overall front side bus speed would be low due to the high locked multiplier of The CPU marks are spot on, nothing to get worked up about.

These mobos include power and reset buttons right on the board, plus a two-digit diagnostic LED display.

Constantly a leader in overclocking options, performance, and even features like on-board RAID, Abit has made quite a name for itself in the hardware community. Home Reviews News Forums. While their volume of sales worldwide is not quite as impressive in comparison to others such as Asus and ECS, when radi factor in their lack of OEM sales, the sales numbers are very good indeed.

AddOn - KR7A-RAID

However, beware of the location and orientation of the port if you need to use it. A full 60fps average at such a high resolution with everything on is excellent. For reference, running the P3 binary as we do here on a 2Ghz Pentium 4 20 x gives a render taid of 55s for our test scene pawns.

Quake 3 for our final game based benchmark. Well, it's pretty sparse.

ABIT KR7A-RAID, Socket A, AMD Motherboard

There is decent room to the left and right of the socket but underneath lr7a socket by the 3 lugs are a 3 large capacitors. Let's take a closer look at some of the more important components and board locations. So while the motherboard wasn't able to take the XP very high due to heat issues we can still examine the performance increases we did get. Granted testing time was short but jr7a no problems were encountered.

The board is very ke7a and like all Abit boards you have no jumper adjustment to worry about. Latest News Latest Videos. Eminently tweakable and up to Abits usual high standards. Here we can see the KTA being put to good use and used raidd without any tweaking at all.

The processor was the Athlon XP Mhz and using the Reactor waterblock and normal room temperature cooling the quickest the processor could run at was around Mhz stock voltage. The RAID ports are located in the bottom right of the board with the floppy port underneath, all three horizontally aligned.

Also, the board uses the full 9 hole ATX mount system, however the farthest right 3 holes didn't match to any holes on my YY Cube case. Benchmark results are directly comparable however. First off, the Sandra memory bench. It's worth noting that at Mhz FSB, even with the most aggressive performance options enabled in the BIOS, the system was perfectly stable for all the tests.

Motherboards Previous page Next page. It used to be that Abit was one of only a few choices an enthusiast had when choosing a motherboard, but things have changed.

The board itself isn't totally bare, though. The only thing limiting things were the processor itself and the motherboard.