Another VIA KT400 Based Mainboard from Gigabyte

by Anton Shilov
11/20/2002 | 08:19 PM

Gigabyte Technology announced their new VIA KT400 based mainboard GA-7VAXP Ultra. GA-7VAXP Ultra belongs to Gigabyte’s new product family known as K7 Triton 400 series. The GA-7VAXP Ultra is based on the GA-7VAXP design (see this news-story), but also offers a couple of Serial ATA ports as additional feature.

• Supports all Socket A Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron processors;
• VIA KT400 chipset with VT8235 I/O Controller;
• 3 DIMM slots for up to 4GB of PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and DDR400 DDR SDRAM;
• 5 PCI and 1 AGP 8x slot;
• 2-channel integrated ATA-33/66/100/133 controller;
• Promise 20276 RAID controller;
• Silicon Image Serial ATA controller;
• 10/100/Mbit/s Ethernet Adapter;
• 6 USB 2.0 ports;
• 3 FireWire (IEEE1394) ports;
• Integrated AC`97 6-channel ALC650 audio solution with SP/DIF connectors;
• Memory Stick, Secure Digital and Smart Card Readers;
• Gigabyte’s proprietary technologies, such as, Dual BIOS, EZ-Fix AGP slot, Easytune 4, Q-Flash, @BIOS and so on;
• Overclocking functions and CPU overheat protection;
• ATX Form-factor.

This mainboard is definitely not an extraordinary one – just another quality retail product from the first-tier maker. Gigabyte Technology just decided to remind us about itself by announcing a little bit more advanced product compared to their GA-7VAXP. They have not declared the availability timeframe of the device as well as its price.