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Soltek SL-75KVA-X Part
1 Introduction Soltek, has been very successful in capturing the majority of the marketshare in Hongkong as the low cost overclocker's brand. Just in case you have not heard of Soltek, you might have heard of MagicPro. Magicpro boards are the OEM of Soltek. If you have been to Hong Kong, you would be wondering where are the big brand names?? You would see MagicPro boards in most of the computer shopping complexes in Hong Kong. First Impressions
We reviewed Soltek boards before and I am quite impressed with their persistence to innovate and efficient to bring out the latest technology in the industry. If you remember, we reviewed the Soltek SL-75KV2-X and we have praised it as one of the upcoming serious competitor to the bigger brands. Today Soltek brings you their 3rd version of the SL75KV series, SL75KVA-X. This version 3 of the the board incorporates the latest VIA KT133A chipset which officially supports 133Mhz FSB and the multiplier, VCore and Vi/o adjustments on board. For the overclockers, BIOS version release 5 also included an auto-overclocking function all done within BIOS. No more installation of softwares to auto overclock which is really very messy!
Other than that, the package also comes with the best of the breed software from Symantec. This time round, they not only bundle Norton Anti Virus 2000 and Ghost, Soltek also throw in Winfax, a software that comes handy for small business users to fax direct from desktop thru Internet or modem. It comes at the right time since Windows Me does not come with Fax support. The board has a COM connector to connect to an external COM port (COM2), this reminds me of the old 486 boards ;) In the package, you can also find a thermistor which you could use to real time monitor the temperature of your other devices on your mainboard. |
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