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Chaintech 7SID SiS735
Review Time flies and we are already in our third year of operations and it has been almost two years since we last reviewed a Chaintech product. Today, we will take a look at the latest addition to the Chaintech boards - 7SID - it's a DDR board supporting the AMD Duron/Thunderbird processor. This is also the first retail board we review here that is based on the SiS735 DDR chipset from SiS Technologies. If you have read our preview of SiS735, we are very impressed by the performance as it is able to run very steadily at the maximum ram timings we could think of and the system beats all AMD DDR chipset out there. It even scored the best 3DMark results in our comparison test of the reference board versus all other AMD DDR boards. In this review, we do not wish to bore you with with too much technicalities which you can read in our preview or at SiS website. If you missed all the action, you can read it here. The Chaintech 7SID is packed in a small paper box, in fact, it is one of the smallest MicroATX board I have ever seen. Within the blue box are the paper manuals and cables.
This 7SID is a MicroATX form factor SiS735 mainboard for the AMD Socket A CPU with a 200/266Mhz FSB. It comes integrated with audio and supports 2 x DDR up to a maximum of 1GB. One AGP Slot for both 2x/4xAGP (v2.0 compliant) + 3 PCI slots (PCI v2.2 compliant). Two UltraDMA -66/100 IDE ports supports PIO Mode 4 up to 16.6Mbps, Multi-word DMA Mode 2 and Ultrma DMA mode 5 up to 100 MB/s with Bus Mastering. The board also comes with an embedded USB controller which is UHCI compliant USB host controller with Root Hub. 6 USB ports (UHCI v1.0 compliant) w/over-current protection. There is also an optional USB adapter for additional USB ports. Other functions include 2 temperature sensing for CPU and System, 2 Fan speed (CPU and System) monitoring and control with on/off control in suspend. |
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