Gigabyte 7VAXP-A Ultra KT400A Gallery (2) Overclocker 23 Mar 2003
Top Right Corner of the mainboard. From here we can see 5
PCI slots and 1 AGP slot. The on board audio codec used is Realtek ALC650
6 channel. LAN chip RTL801L.
Yellow coloured Socket 462 looks attractive! The dip switch
is the multiplier control. There are no holes around the socket for those
who are using alpha heatsink.
3 x 1394 connectors (grey), 2 x USB 2.0 connectors
(yellow), VIA VT6306 1394 chipset, Dual BIOS, SiliconImage SATA, Promise
RAID chipset PDC20276 and VIA KT8235 South Bridge.
3 DIMM slots supporting up to 3GB of DDR266/DDR333/DDR400.
2 channels of ATA133 and 2 channels of IDE RAID (using Promise chipset)
Multipliers can be set from AUTO, 5x ~ 18x
Multipliers can be set via the dip switch in the photo on
the left. The dip switch is on the top right hand corner of the mainboard.
SATA connector supported by SiliconImage SATALink
Sil3112AGT114 chipset. The colour coded front panel connectors aids in
getting them hook up correctly.
2 channels of IDE RAID is supported by the Promise PDC20276
chipset
VIA KT8235 South Bridge is being used instead of the KT8237
which will natively support SATA.
The VIA KT400A North Bridge is a week 9 2003 CD stepping.
This new chipset features
VIA
FastStream64™ Technology uses an expanded array of prefetch buffers to
reduce latency in the memory controller.
The Dual BIOS with 2x USB connectors and 3 x 1394 (yellow
colour) connectors (grey in colour - partially shown).
