Mega Test: 14 Boards with KT266A and nForce 420D

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Manufacturer	Epox	Soyo	Soltek	DFI	QDI	Gigabyte	Shuttle
Product	EP-8KHA+	SY-K7V (Dragon Plus!)	SL-75DRV2	AD70-SR	KuDoz 7	GA-7VTXH	AK 31 V3.1
Chipset Features
Chipset Name	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A
Platform	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462	Socket 462
FSB clock (MHz)	133.64	133.32	133.34	133.02	133.27	133.34	133.5
CPU clock deviance from nominal (%)	0,232%	-0,007%	0,007%	-0,232%	-0,045%	0,007%	0,127%
Northbridge	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A	VIA KT266A
Southbridge	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233	VIA VT8233
Northbridge fan	yes	yes	yes	no	no	no	yes
Form factor	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX	ATX
Memory
Max. memory	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	3072 MB	4096
SDRAM slots	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
DDR SDRAM slots	3	3	3	3	3	3	4
Standard Components
Dimensions (L x W)	30.5 cm x 24.5 cm	30.5 cm x 23.0 cm	30.5 cm x 22.0 cm	30.5 cm x 24.5 cm	30.5 cm x 23.5 cm	30.5 cm x 21.0 cm	30.5 cm x 24.3 cm
PCI slots	6	5	5	5	5	5	6
AGP	4x	4x (Pro)	4x (Pro)	4x	4x	4x	4x
ACR / AMR / CNR	no/no/no	no/no/no	no/no/yes	no/no/no	yes/no/no	no/no/no	no/no/yes
Parallel ports	1	1	1	1	j	1	1
Serial ports	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
USB ports external/internal	2/4	2/4	2/4	2/4	2/4	2/2	2/4
Fan connectors	3	4	2	3	3	2	2
Additional Components
Piezo speaker (onboard)	no	no	no	yes	yes	no	yes
Wake on LAN (WOL)	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Wake on Modem (WOM)	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Infrared (PIN/COM)	no/yes	yes/yes	no/yes	yes/yes	no/yes	no/yes	yes/yes
Chassis intrusion sensor	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Temp. sensor for indirect measurement	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Temp. sensor for thermal diode (direct measurement)	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Network 100 Mbit/s onboard	no	VIA onChip LAN (KT266A)	no	no	no	Realtek (RTL8100L)	no
Drive Interfaces
Standard IDE
Channels/Bandwidth	4/ATA100	4/ATA100	4/ATA100	4/ATA100	4/ATA100	4/ATA100	4/ATA100
Additional IDE
Controller	no	Promise (RAID)	no	Promise (RAID)	no	no	no
Channels/Bandwidth	no	4/ATA100	no	4/ATA100	no	no	no
SCSI
Controller	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
SCSI connectores (68/50pin)	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Channels/Bandwidth	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Onboard Sound
Type (PCI/AC97)	AC97	PCI chip	AC97	no	AC97	PCI chip	AC97
Sound chip	ALC201A	C3DX	VIA VT1611A	no	AD1881A	Creative	VIA VT1611A
External jacks (out/in/mic)	1/1/1	1/1/1	1/1/1	no	1/1/1	1/1/1	1/1/1
Internal jacks (in/out/cd)	1/1/1	0/0/2	0/0/0	no	1/1/1	0/0/1	1/1/1
Overclocking
Type	BIOS/DPI	BIOS	BIOS/DPI	BIOS/DPI	BIOS	BIOS/DPI	BIOS
Multiplier / steps (X)	6.0 - 15.0 / 0.5	6.0 - 14.0 / 0.5	5.0 - 12.5 / 0.5	5.0 - 12.5 / 0.5	Auto	5.0 - 12.5 / 0.5	5.5 - 14.0 / 0.5
FSB - Frequency / steps (MHz)	100; 133 - 199 / 1	100; 133 - 233 / 1	100; 133 - 200 / 1	100; 133 - 250 / 1	100; 133 - 150 / 5	100; 133 - 163 / 1	100; 133 - 166 / 1
Voltage settings
CPU: range / steps	1.650 - 1.850 / 0.025	1.725 - 1.800 / 0.025	1.400 - 1.850 / 0.025	1.500 - 1.850 / 0.025	no	1.75 - 1.830 - 1.88 - 1.92	1.650 - 1.850 / 0.025
Memory: range / steps	2.50 - 3.20 / 0.10	no	2.5 - 2.7 / 0.1	no	no	no	2.55 - 2.70 / 0.05
Chipset: range / steps	no	no	no	no	no	no	no
Further Details
Bios	Award	Award	Award	Award	Award	AMI	Award
Version	8KHI1B02	K7VXA-2AA1	REV K3.5	AD70SR0920	V1.6LCP	F2	S2E9
Date	11/2/2001	10/12/2001	10/24/2001	9/20/2001	10/26/2001	10/9/2001	9/26/2001
Board revision	2.0.	n/a	n/a	.A	2	1	3-Jan
Clock generator	ICS 94228 BF	ICS 94229 AF	ICS 94228 BF	CYP 629261	CYP 628112	ICS 94228BF	ICS 93718CF

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