The Gigabyte 7VAXP is one of the newest member based on the VIA KT400 chipset and has a strong feature set like USB 2.0, 1394, AGP 8x,  ATA133 RAID and 6 channel audio. As time progresses, many manufacturers will adopt similar functionality on their boards. I wouldn't be surprised if Gigabyte were to release an optional S-ATA when S-ATA harddisks are common. I personally felt that Gigabyte did not include it to reduce the overall costs to make it more affordable.

In our tests, the performance of this board is as good as any KT333 boards when you run in the DDR333 mode. In DDR400 Async mode, we only see a slight performance increase. 

The board layout is nicely done. The AGP Slot's retention mechanism is quite a good one. The chipset's heatsink is attached with a double sided tape. I would definitely prefer thermal paste in replacement of the tape. On board you would also see two dip switches. The first is to set the initial CPU clock 100, 133 or 166, and the other is for setting the multiplier of the CPU. This is somehow quite a surprise why Gigabyte decides to put it on dip switches than to place all these options within the BIOS.

Documentation is concise and there are well written instructions and the Quick PC installation Guide is useful for those who wants to quickly setup the system. Installation is straightforward but do remember to setup the dip switches correctly.