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A motherboard is a motherboard right ?
Wrong ... Each motherboard
differs in small subtlest like, voltage tweaking (handy dandy for overclocking)
FSB speeds, number of slots, integration of sound and video and a
dosin of more optionals that can be in/excluded in a mainboard. It are
these extra features that determine whether you will or will not buy
this motherboard or not. Why am I saying this you might ask ? When it
comes towards speed or overall performance, motherboards are very close these days. It is my
believe that the package, new options and extra's that will determine what you will
buy. The 6XV-133 is your typical mainboard without integration of
sound and video but with some very new and hot features and is therefore
a very interesting buy.
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Motherboard
Specifications
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| CPU
Interface |
Slot-1 |
| Chipset |
VIA
PC133 / VIA693A+596B |
| L2
Cache |
N/A
(on-chip) |
| Form
Factor |
ATX |
| Bus
Speeds |
66
/ 100 / 133 / 150 |
| Clock
Multipliers |
3x
- 8x (200-1067 Mhz) |
| Voltages
Supported |
Auto
Detect |
| Memory
Slots |
3
168pin DIMM Slots |
| Expansion
Slots |
0
AMR Slots
1 AGP Slot
5 PCI Slots
2 ISA Slots (1 Shared with PCI) |
| BIOS |
Award
green P&P |
The mobo gives us some very nice (read: hot) new options like Ultra DMA-66 (the
ability to read 66Mb/sec with a compatible Ultra DMA-66 Hard
drive)
Ultra DMA-66 Bus master IDE
Synchronous Ultra DMA mode provides data transfer rates up-to a
maximum of 66Mb per second. Which roughly is twice the data rate of
enhanced IDE or ATA-2. Ultra ATA requires a special (included) hd
cable. Although the cable has 40 pins, it actually uses 80 wires. TIP
- always connect the cable in this fashion: Blue to mainboard,
Gray
to slave and black to master.
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