ABIT IS7-G Springdale 865PE Review (1)
Bluetooth 12 June 2003

ABIT IS7-G

The IS7 series uses Intel's newest 865PE chipset to bring the latest in technology to the Intel platform. The IS7 series supports Intel® Pentium 4 800/533/400 MHz CPUs with Hyper-Threading technology for superior performance, and offers full support for Dual Channel DDR. ABIT provides users with 6-channel sound and S/PDIF In/Out for enhanced audio performance (IS7-G /IS7 /IS7-E ). With full support for AGP 8X, USB 2.0, and optional IEEE the IS7 series allows users to connect to today's hottest peripherals. If you remember, we had a round up of various Springdale boards earlier and found that ASUS's offering was the fastest with an almost 10~20% faster in various benchmarks. As ABIT IS7-G came into the market slightly later, ABIT has probably been observing this trend and spending time fine tuning their BIOS to enable the so called "PAT". Although there is no such thing as PAT on Springdale, we have known that basically the 865PE has something similar but offered at non-800FSB speeds. There are ways to enable that and it seems that ABIT has found out the trick and they did not do it the unorthodox way by secretly overclocking 15MHz above standard FSB.

ABIT IS7-G latest beta BIOS improves the performance by a substantial amount and it is high time to let the cat out of its bag. They call it the "Game Accelerator Technology". ABIT IS7-G latest beta used includes a few Turbo settings like StreetRacer and Formula1 which boosts the performance to be on par with the fastest ASUS P4P800. (See Gallery 3 for BIOS options).

Before we go into the gallery and see what the board and BIOS offers, lets take a look at the specifications of this board

Features

Enhanced 800MHz FSB
The 800MHz FSB increases bandwidth and improves overall system performance.

Dual DDR Module Support
Supports up to 4GB of Single/Dual channel DIMM modules, delivering bandwidth of 4.8GB/sec.

Serial ATA 150MB/s data transfer rate
Serial ATA is an evolutionary replacement for the Parallel ATA storage interface. This new high-speed interface boosts data transfer rates to up to 150 MB/sec. More flexible power tolerances allow for smaller and more efficient cables.

6-Channel Audio and S/PDIF Out interface
Lets you enjoy 6-channel audio without having to buy advanced sound cards.

USB 2.0 Support
Supports speeds up to 480 Mb/sec, approximately forty times faster than conventional USB 1.1

IEEE 1394 Support
Supports 400/200/100Mb/sec data transfer rate. Ideal for streaming audio and video.

ABIT SoftMenu™ Overclocking
The overclocking functions include CPU frequency, Vcore, multiplier and memory voltage adjustment to maximize your system performance.

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