Socket-A VIA KT133 Motherboard Roundup - August 2000

Final Words

While ASUS came in with a very close second, we're going to have to give the best overall Socket-A KT133 motherboard award to ABIT for their KT7-RAID. The board is a truly innovative design, bringing ABIT back to the roots that made them the widely known company they are today. The board boasts a completely jumperless setup, a plethora of performance & stability enhancing settings in the BIOS and was overall a very stable solution. The KT7-RAID also brings its onboard HighPoint 370 ATA-100/IDE RAID controller to the table as an added feature for those of you that are planning on decreasing the penalty imposed by one of the biggest bottlenecks in your system, the hard disk subsystem.

Closely behind ABIT is, of course, ASUS, with their A7V which is just a hair short of tying with ABIT for the first place award in this roundup.

If you aren't concerned with overclocking/multiplier adjustment then there are a number of other motherboards that deserve your consideration, the Gigabyte boards are solid performers as is the Microstar K7T Pro, but if you want a board that truly sets itself apart from the competition then the ABIT KT7-RAID or the ASUS A7V is the right choice for you.

We will be comparing the ATA 100/RAID solutions on all of the motherboards present in this roundup in an upcoming article so stay tuned for that as well.