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Date |
:
Jul 24th, 2001 |
| Category |
:
Motherboards |
| Manufacturer |
:
ECS |
| Author |
:
Jin-Wei Tioh |
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Over the past few months, numerous Socket-370 and Socket-A DDR motherboards have been introduced. One thing they had in common is that they
were all based on one of VIA's DDR chipsets, whether it was the KT266 or the Apollo 266. ECS bucks the trend with the introduction of the
K7AMA, featuring ALi's flagship DDR chipset, the ALiMAGiK 1.
In our second motherboard review, we present ECS's ALiMAGiK 1 Socket-A Solution, the K7AMA. The ALiMAGiK 1 motherboard market looks to be
just as competitive as the KT133A market, with ASUS, Transcend, IWill and Soyo also having released their solutions. Here's a brief technical
overview of the K7AMA :
| ECS
K7AMA Specifications |
| CPU
Type |
Socket-A
/ Socket-462 |
| Chipset |
ALiMAGiK
1 (M1647 North Bridge, M1535D+ South Bridge) |
| Form
Factor |
ATX |
| FSB
Speeds |
100,
133 MHz
|
| CPU
Core Voltages |
Auto
Detect
1.100 - 1.850 V |
| I/O
Voltages |
3.3 V |
| Memory
Banks |
2 168-pin DIMM
Slots (SDRAM)
2 184-pin DIMM Slots (DDR-RAM) |
| Expansion
Slots |
1
AGP Slot (Full Length)
4 PCI Slots
0 ISA Slots
1 AMR Slot |
| Integrated
Features |
On-board
Audio (Avance Logic ALC100P AC'97 CODEC) |
| BIOS
Type |
AMI |
| BIOS
Revision |
R1.21.04 |
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