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Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 - PAGE 1
Corry S - Wednesday, September 17th, 2003


Introduction

Our review today gives us a chance to get our first look at VIA's newest chipset, the KT600. Gigabyte's GA-7T600 is one of the first boards to market with this chipset and we're really looking forward to putting it through it's paces. Featuring a 400MHz front side bus, a reworked memory controller and an integrated SATA/RAID controller VIA hopes to regain some ground for lost to NVIDIA's successful Nforce2 series. VIA also carries over some of the features from the KT400A Chipset, such as; Six-Trac (six channel) AC'97 audio, MC '97 modem and VIA MAC 10/100 LAN.

Below is a nice chart from VIA's website comparing the KT600 and KT400A

FeaturesVIA Apollo KT600VIA Apollo KT400A
North Bridge
Processor SupportAMD Athlonâ„¢ XP AMD Athlonâ„¢ XP
Front Side Bus266/333/400MHz 266/333MHz
Memory Bus266/333/400MHz 266/333/400MHz
AGP SupportAGP4X/8X AGP4X/8X
Memory Type DDR266/333/400 DDR266/333/400
Max. Memory 4.0GB4.0GB
South BridgeVT8237VT8235CE
North/South Bridge Link8X V-Link (533MB/sec)8X V-Link (533MB/sec)
Integrated AudioVIA Vinyl Six-TRAC six- channel AC'97 audioVIA Vinyl Six-TRAC six- channel AC'97 audio
Integrated ModemMC'97MC'97
Integrated Network ControllerVIA MAC 10/100 EthernetVIA MAC 10/100 Ethernet
PCI Devices/Slots6 slots6 slots
IDEDual Channel Serial ATA directly supports two SATA devices SATAliteâ„¢ interface expands support for two additional SATA devices through optional external Serial ATA PHY Dual Channel Parallel ATA (up to 4 devices)Parallel ATA (up to 4 devices)
VIA RAID RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1Supports SATA and ATA-133 standards
USB8 ports6 ports
Super I/OLPC Super I/OLPC Super I/O
IO APICYesYes
Power ManagementACPI/APM/PCI/PMACPI/APM/PCI/PM

Here we have block diagram and architecture images

Article Index

1.Introduction
2.Bundle & Specifications
3.Features & Layout
4.Overclocking & BIOS Features
5.Benchmarks: Office Productivity
6.Gaming Benchmarks & Conclusion...
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