ABIT IC7-G & IS7-G GigaSystem Boards Review

Dom · Jun 14, 2003, 01:58 AM

There are lots of hype in the market currently about Intel latest 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 processors and their supporting chipsets cater for different categories of market segment. More than 2 months back, Intel has offered the highest performance combo with the announcement of 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 3Ghz and the 875P Canterwood and definitely many performance enthusiasts are clearly very excited about it but the price of course is very high. Mainstream consumers are in fact eagerly await the cheaper 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 processors with Hyper-Threading Technology and the lower priced 865 series Springdale boards to come and indeed motherboard manufacturers have delivered on time to the mass market last month. Currently, the most after sought 800Mhz FSB P4 is definitely the 2.4CGhz offers the best value, great overclockability and performance and when bundled together with a relatively cheap 865PE board, it is a killer combo in many ways.

ABIT is clearly one of the hot favorite among performance enthusiasts certainly have been churning out impressive boards recently on both Intel and AMD front with their BH7 series based on the i845PE chipset and the NF7-S series based on the nForce2 chipset. This time round, ABIT has released their 875P and 865 solutions on time to the market and the initial responses from the end users have been overwhelming. IC7-G is based on the 875P Canterwood chipset and comes in a cool black box. It features support for Dual Channel DDR400 with ECC, Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT), 4 Channel Serial ATA-150 RAID, 6 Channel Audio, Intel Gigabit LAN with Communications Streaming Architecture (CSA) and Firewire. IC7-G has some cool bundles as well such as the black rounded ATA and Floppy cables and the SERILLEL2 converter. IS7-G, on the other hand, is based on the cheaper 865PE Springdale chipset and comes in the usual ABIT blue box. It features support for Dual Channel DDR400, "PAT" (with their new beta BIOS which we will talk about it later), 4 Channel Serial ATA-150 RAID, 6 Channel Audio, 3Com Gigabit LAN and also Firewire. In this article, we will go in details their board features, BIOS features, performance as well as their overclockability.

Check out the whole review at VR-Zone.com

Jun 14, 2003, 01:58 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	ABIT IC7-G & IS7-G GigaSystem Boards Review There are lots of hype in the market currently about Intel latest 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 processors and their supporting chipsets cater for different categories of market segment. More than 2 months back, Intel has offered the highest performance combo with the announcement of 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 3Ghz and the 875P Canterwood and definitely many performance enthusiasts are clearly very excited about it but the price of course is very high. Mainstream consumers are in fact eagerly await the cheaper 800Mhz FSB Pentium 4 processors with Hyper-Threading Technology and the lower priced 865 series Springdale boards to come and indeed motherboard manufacturers have delivered on time to the mass market last month. Currently, the most after sought 800Mhz FSB P4 is definitely the 2.4CGhz offers the best value, great overclockability and performance and when bundled together with a relatively cheap 865PE board, it is a killer combo in many ways. ABIT is clearly one of the hot favorite among performance enthusiasts certainly have been churning out impressive boards recently on both Intel and AMD front with their BH7 series based on the i845PE chipset and the NF7-S series based on the nForce2 chipset. This time round, ABIT has released their 875P and 865 solutions on time to the market and the initial responses from the end users have been overwhelming. IC7-G is based on the 875P Canterwood chipset and comes in a cool black box. It features support for Dual Channel DDR400 with ECC, Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT), 4 Channel Serial ATA-150 RAID, 6 Channel Audio, Intel Gigabit LAN with Communications Streaming Architecture (CSA) and Firewire. IC7-G has some cool bundles as well such as the black rounded ATA and Floppy cables and the SERILLEL2 converter. IS7-G, on the other hand, is based on the cheaper 865PE Springdale chipset and comes in the usual ABIT blue box. It features support for Dual Channel DDR400, "PAT" (with their new beta BIOS which we will talk about it later), 4 Channel Serial ATA-150 RAID, 6 Channel Audio, 3Com Gigabit LAN and also Firewire. In this article, we will go in details their board features, BIOS features, performance as well as their overclockability. Check out the whole review at VR-Zone.com