The KT400 chipset is now widespread, and many companies have released their KT400 boards in mass quantities. To continue with our slew of KT400 reviews, we've put Gigabyte's GA-7VAXP Ultra board through our test labs and found the board to have some interesting qualities, and some irksome quirks. Overall though, I think you'll find this board to be an interesting alternative to the other KT400 boards.
Before we begin, we'd like to explain some of Gigabyte's name scheme for the K7 Triton 400 boards. There are 4 models in the family, with each successive member packing a few extra features. The 7VAXP Ultra that we are reviewing is packed with everything from firewire ports to Serial ATA. The below table highlights the differences between the boards:
| Differences between members of the K7 Triton 400 family |
| Feature | GA-7VA | GA-7VAX | GA-7VAXP | GA-7VAXP Ultra |
| Integrated 10/100 LAN | -- | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Integrated 5.1 audio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Audio expansion bracket
(Coax/optical SPDIF + dedicated center/rear plugs) | -- | -- | Yes | Yes |
| USB 2.0 ports | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Firewire/IEEE 1394 ports | -- | -- | 3 | 3 |
| ATA133 RAID | -- | -- | Yes | Yes |
| Serial ATA | -- | -- | -- | Yes |
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