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