ABIT BD7-II RAID i845E Review (11)
Overclocker 24 May 2002

Conclusion

ABIT BD7-II RAID is quite a plain board which has the only necessary features on board. It does not include any unnecessary functions which is not used at all. The performance of this board is pretty good. It can be seen that work has been done in tuning up the performance of this board to match or even better the rest. 

Installation is straightforward. If there are any problems, the documentation is always there to help to get it up and running. 

Overclocking wise, this board has SoftMenuIII which you could use to tune up your FSB and voltages for vcore and vdimm. On top of that, there is also the hidden feature to run the board at DDR354 mode (unofficially supported). At DDR354 Async mode, we see that there is a performance gain. Well, ABIT boards sometimes just give us some hidden surprises.

Overall, this board is a stable and good performance board with RAID and SoftMenuIII. It's definitely not as feature rich as compared to it's brother the IT7.

Priced at USD 123.00, it could should be a good choice if you are going for P4.

Discuss

Pros 好处:

• SoftMenuIII
• Onboard LAN
• 6 Channel audio
• USB 2.0 

Cons 坏处:

• DDR266 support only
• No Diagnostic LEDs
• No Media Connectors for SC/MS

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 5 stars.

Highly Recommended

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