Introduction I’ve had many A7V133 boards in the past 15-20 years and I have only good memories associated with them. Although it’s been some time since I last tinkered with an A7V133, I still remember that the dot trailing some PCB revision numbers is very important. A short research on… Continue reading
Introduction The K7T Turbo was the final iteration of MSI’s line of KT133A offerings. There are aspects to it, that make it an interesting choice for a retro build. Firstly, there is a 4-pin 12V power connector on the board, with which you can supply power to the CPU. This… Continue reading
Introduction Gigabyte was about four to six weeks later to the market than many other “big players” with their KT133A board, the GA-7ZXR (Rev. 2.1). But unlike Asus, Abit and MSI for example, they made a lot of changes to the vanilla GA-7ZXR (Rev. 1.x), their previous KT133 offering. From… Continue reading
Introduction Prior to the GA-7DXR, Gigabyte released another AMD760 based motherboard – the GA-7DX(C). While the name suggest, that “the R” is just a slightly refined version of the vanilla GA-7DX (which was one of the first, if not the first overall AMD760 based motherboards released in its “C” version),… Continue reading
Introduction MSI’s K7 Master is a AMD 760 based motherboard, that is clearly targeted towards workstation users. In the -S variant, it features an onboard U160 SCSI Adaptec chip and both the Master and the Master-S offer an AGP Pro port with an additional 4-pin 12 V power connector. On… Continue reading
Introduction Up for review is the EP-8K7A, EpoX’s AMD760 based motherboard. Like all boards I know, which feature AMDs DDR chipset, it uses AMD’s 761 northbridge and the VIA 686B southbridge. Typical for EpoX, the board is packed with OC features. But in contrary to the older 8KTA3 model, for… Continue reading
Introduction The A7M266 is one of these boards that newer really grew on me. There are several great AMD760 based motherboards out there, which either look exciting, have great features or even both of these aspects. The A7M266 falls in neither of these categories. It just hasn’t got that little… Continue reading
Introduction Gigabyte’s GA-7IXE4 is a special motherboard in many regards. It is based on AMDs 750 “Irongate” chipset, which was originally developped for the Slot A Athlon “Classic” and the launch chipset for that platform. This also means, that the Irongate is roughly at least a full year older than… Continue reading
Introduction I was really looking forward to do this review. The EpoX EP-8KTA3 is part of my Win98 testing machine for many years now, where I test older graphics cards, soundcards and so on. I also use it to test SDR memory. It literally never let me down and never… Continue reading
