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Well, the this is the 3rd board which is
available on the market. To date, Chaintech has indicated that small quantities
are already shipping in France. Chaintech 7SJR is an interesting product that is
somewhat targetted for both OEM and end user market as not many boards have 6 ch
audio, RAID on a SiS745 board.
The performance of this board is pretty good.
If you check out the AGP performance, we can see that in real life apps like
Quake3, the performance is better than the MSI 745Ultra. In Content Creation
wise, it is on par with the MSI 745Ultra. Features-wise, this is one of the
"high-end" boards that implements the SiS745 chipset. With RAID and 6
ch audio and Diagnostic DEBUG CODE, these are some of the innovative ways to
break away from the shabbily image of SiS on the AMD platforms.
Installation is definitely straightforward as
there are not much jumpers or bios settings you would need to figure out.
Overclockers will be disappointed by the fact that this board, just like 7SID,
does not provide overclocking features at all within BIOS. There are also no
jumpers available for changing voltages, multipliers on board.
In conclusion, our feelings of this board is
mixed. It seems to be a board made for the SI but it seems to have some of the
top notch features e.g. RAID, 6 ch audio etc. Well, I find that this board will
definitely spur more interest of manufacturers to adopt future SiS74x chipsets
with added features real soon.
Do you want to WIN this board ? We are
extending the draw till 31 Apr 2002. Check out the details on how to win
here.
Discuss
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