5 New SocketA Boards With UltraATA/100

Soltek SL-75KV2-X

BIOS-Version: 25. November 2000

Board-Revision: n/a

Another board with UltraATA/100 is Soltek's SL-75KV2-X. Multiplier as well as FSB clock can be adjusted with the help of Dipswitches. Therefore it is made for overclocking: If you take a look into the BIOS-setup you will find out that you can add 28 MHz to the default FSB-clock of 100 MHz in 1 MHz steps. Therefore, this board offers a lot of opportunities for tuning.

The SL-75KV2-X has an AGP-Pro slot and again the Japanese and English speaking Voice Diagnosis. Unfortunately there is no list of the spoken words in the manual. So it is hard to find out what the small onboard speaker says when it is talking to you.

You can upgrade your memory up to 768 MB and the DIMM voltage (3.6 V maximum) as well as the CPU Vcore (1.85 V) is adjustable in the BIOS. There is a temperature sensor built in the socket in order to monitor the activity of the CPU. The data will be checked by the BIOS.

The ICE1232 sound codec is only sufficient for simple applications. For multimedia you should use real sound card. The 75KV2-X is equipped with 1 ISA, 5 PCI and 4 USB ports. A cable for the second COM port is included; the additional USB cable is missing however. This board does not contain any AMR or CNR slots.