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Old Sep 13, 2004, 07:41 AM   #1
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Abit KW7 VIA KT880
Yet another new AMD AthlonXP based motherboard surfaces, proving that manufacturers alike are still seeing plenty of demand for alternative motherboard solutions based on the old budget performance platform. ABIt's KW7 is the latest board on the market to make use of VIA's dual channel KT880 chipset along with all the other useful features such as GigaBIT LAN, SATA RAID and firewire. Although no reviews seem to be floating around just yet, AMDBoard have an image up of the board along with a listing of specifications for you to view at AMDboard.com.

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I almost didn't think it would ever get out, and now I don't want it anymore.

Hmm, what is that in the corner of my eye..., an Abit board with two-phase power regulation...? Blasphemy!
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I almost didn't think it would ever get out, and now I don't want it anymore.

Hmm, what is that in the corner of my eye..., an Abit board with two-phase power regulation...? Blasphemy!
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it's got two phase...er wait... maybe i'm not up to date on my tech lingo..

isn't the second (4 pin ATX2) the secondary?

i'm most likely wrong...

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Happy to.

When looking at the components of a motherboard, one coil with two nearby mosfets typically indicate a pase. Here i can spot two coils, each with a pair of characteristically looking square mosfet chips, adding up to two phases.


Now a two-phase solution isn't automatically a bad thing, and I did overreact in a geeky manner. But Abit has long been on the forefront of this aspect and most of even their budgetline boards have had three-phase power design for a while. Essentially, a third phase on a motherboard improves the power management so that cirquitry requires slightly less power and runs a little less hot under stressful operation.
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so what's the advantage.. or reason?
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so what's the advantage.. or reason?
Of them going with 2-phase this time? Likely it could simply be about production cost and Socket-A being confined to the low budget segment from now on. Don't know how much difference it would really do on their budget, but the competition has plenty of cheap solutions out on the market so maybe they decided to do what they could to keep costs down.
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so it's cheaper... how does it effect power.. i'm still unclear... so this is a worse then what they did before?
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