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Gigabyte GA-7VAX
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4 57724 04-26-2007
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100% of reviewers $82.50 9.5



Description: GA-7VAX
VIA KT400 chipset

Processor
Socket A for AMD Athlon? XP / Athlon? / Duron? processor

Chipset
Northbridge : VIA KT400

Southbridge : VIA 8235

Super I/O: ITE IT8705F

Raeltek 8100BL Ethernet 10/100Mb LAN controller

Realtek ALC650 AC97 6-channel codec Chip

Dual BIOS

Front Side Bus
333/266/200 MHz FSB

Memory
Type : DDR400(PC3200)* / DDR333 (PC2700) / DDR266 (PC2100) / DDR200 (PC1600) -184pin

Max capacity : Up to 3GB by 3 DIMM slots

DDR400 (PC3200) support list
Internal I/O Connectors
1 x FDD port

2 x UDMA ATA133/100/66 Bus Master IDE ports

2 x 2ports USB 2.0 connector (by front USB ports)

1 x 2ports USB 2.0 connector (by cable with rear USB bracket)

Smart Card Reader connectors

2 x cooling fan pin header

Expansion Slots
1 x AGP slot (8X/4X, AGP 3.0 compliant) , Supports 1.5v display card only.

5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)

Rear Panel I/O
PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse

2 x USB 2.0 ports

2 x COM ports

1 x RJ45 LAN port

Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector

1 x Game/midi port

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting
CPU FSB adjustable via BIOS (1MHz-linear)

CPU multiplier by DIP Switch

CPU Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS

AGP Voltage : N/A

Memory Voltage : N/A

Power
ATX power connector

Power-off by Windows 95/ 98/ Me/ 2000/ NT/ XP shut down and Switch

Form Factor
ATX, Dimension : ( 30.5 x 24.4 cm )

H/W Monitoring
System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS

H/W detect and report power-in voltage, CPU voltage, and Fan Speed Support auto detect temperature thermal shutdown function

BIOS
2 x4 Mbit flash RAM

Award BIOS with enhanced ACPI feature for PC98/Win98/Win2000/WinMe/XP compliance, Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (>8.4GB) and Anti-Virus functions

IDE#1~#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP and CD-ROM bootable

AC recovery ON/OFF control

Other Features

GIGABYTE patented DualBIOS?
Suspend-To-RAM (STR)
Supports USB KB/MS Wake up from S3
Poly fuse for keyboard over-current protection

Bundle Software

Norton Internet Security
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Adobe Acrobat e-Book Reader


Driver

VIA 4 in 1 service pack utility
Realtek LAN driver
Realtek sound driver
VIA USB 2.0 driver
Winbond Smart IO driver
Free software
Keywords: gigabyte motherboard GA-7VAX
Chipset: VIA KT400
Connection Type: Parallel, Serial, USB, Socket A, UATA133, PS/2


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Old 11-16-2003, 07:56 AM   #1
filipanu
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Red Hat 9.0 (Shrike)
Posts: 8

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $90.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: RedHat 9.0



The integrated lan, ac97, hdd controller, agp gart are fully compatible with Redhat 9.0 No problem encountred.
 
Old 04-26-2004, 12:09 PM   #2
ElvenAssassin
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware v9.1
Posts: 33

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22
Distribution: Slackware v9.1


Seems to work extremely well with Slack.
 
Old 09-08-2004, 03:46 PM   #3
dmcmillan
 
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: Gentoo, Ubuntu
Posts: 6

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $75.00 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.3-7mdk
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0 OE


Board did not support 166 FSB right out of the box, which meant a bios flash, which didn't work right of the hop. There is a undocumented jumper that needs turned on first and then you can flash. After that no problem. However I had to flash it in Windows XP. If you don't have a dual booter make sure it has an up todate version of the bios.

As a note my board is 3 years old.

Other than this one glitch the board behaves nominally.
 
Old 04-26-2007, 03:33 AM   #4
kalman
 
Registered: Feb 2005
Distribution: ubuntu 7.04 /centos5.0 / mephis 6.5 / winxp
Posts: 33

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18-8.1.1.e15
Distribution: centos 5 and many more


I tested many linux distro's on this box. CENTOS 5 BOOTS FASTER THAN ANY LINUX DISTRO I USED SO FAR.I ALSO TESTED THE FOLLOWING LINUX OS,UBUNTU 5.10,FORESIGHT 0.9,SUSE 9.1,9.2,9.3,101,10.2, KNOPPIX 3.7.5.0, PCLINUX 2007 TEST 2, PCBSD 1.3.01, KANOTIX 2006-01-RC4, MEPHIS 6.5, FEDORA 6, KATEOS_3.6 BETA-LIVE. THIS TEST LINUX BOX IS THE BEST SO FAR WITH A AMD 1400 THUNDERBIRD CPU, 768MB OF PC2100 DDR RAM,GEFORCE 2 MX4O0 VIDEO CARD. NO PROBLEMS WITH THIS MOTHERBOARD FOR 3 YEARS SO FAR.
 




  



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