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ABIT IC7: Mainboard Specifications
Every single product, be it a mouse or a monitor, starts from its package. This attracts your attention in a store and this is usually covering with dust somewhere in an utility room. ABIT’s IC7/IC7-G mainboard comes in a stylish frosted black box with blue inscriptions. The package does look like a package of an expensive product for those, who know what they are getting and know for what do they get it. This is actually an example of a package that deserves to be respected.
When you open the box, you do not see a bunch of connectors, manuals, CDs, dongles and so on in plastic bags lying all around the insides, but you notice another two stylish pearly-white boxes.
When you open a box with ABIT label on its side (you will be able to stick this label to you computer case afterwards), you will see a CD with drivers and utilities, a floppy disk with drivers for Silicon Image Serial ATA-150 controller, a sticker describing jumper settings for fastening inside your PC, a User’s Manual and a Quick Installation Guide as well as rear panel bracket. The second box contents include bunch of different useful things like a pair of Serial ATA-150 connectors, two Serial ATA power adapters, a couple of rounded Parallel ATA-33/66/100 cables and a rounded cable for FDD. In addition, ABIT supplies a dongle with two FireWire (IEEE 1394) and two USB connectors. Note that sometimes ABIT supplies a header with one ordinary FireWire and one mini-FireWire connectors.
Take the pearly-white boxes out, pull the remaining covers away and your eyes will see the IC7 mainboard.
Now it’s time to take a closer look at the specifications of ABIT IC7 mainboard.
ABIT IC7 | |
CPUs | Intel Pentium 4/Celeron in Socket 478 Packaging with 400/533/800MHz Quad Pumped Bus and Hyper-Threading technology. Though, ABIT claims that processors with 400MHz QPB are not supported. |
Chipset | Intel 875P |
FSB Frequencies | 100-414MHz (400-1656MHz Quad Pumped) |
Functions for overclocking and tuning | Adjustable Vcore, Vmem, Vagp, Independently adjustable AGP and PCI clocks |
Memory | 4 DDR SDRAM DIMM slots for PC2100, PC2700 and PC3200 memory, up to 4GB |
AGP | AGP 8x |
PCI | 5 slots |
USB 2.0 | 8 ports |
FireWire (IEEE1394) | 3 ports |
Parallel ATA | 2 ports, ATA-33/66/100 |
Serial ATA-150 | 2 ports, RAID 0 support (ICH5R) |
Integrated Audio | 6-channel AC’97 (Realtek ALC650E) |
BIOS | Phoenix-Award v6.00PG |
Form-factor | ATX |
As you may see, there is no integrated LAN controller and no additional RAID. As I said above, ABIT also offers IC7-G mainboard with integrated CSA Gigabit Ethernet and additional Serial ATA-150 RAID controller. Such mainboard is the top mainboard in ABIT’s family of products with support for processors with 800MHz Quad Pumped Bus and the Hyper-Threading technology, which is why it costs quite a lot of money, whereas the IC7 seems to be significantly more affordable.
