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Gigabyte GA-K8VT800M

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	6292	09-29-2006

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	$130.00	5.0

Description:	1.2 Features Summary Form Factor — 24.4cm x 24.4cm Micro ATX size form factor, 4 layers PCB CPU — Socket 754 for AMD AlthlonTM 64 processor (K8) 128K L1& 256K / 512K / 1M L2 cache on die — 800MHz FSB — Support core frequencies in excess of 1.6 GHz(2800+) and faster Chipset — VIA K8T800 H.T. Bus/AGP/VLINK Controller — VIA VT8237 Integrated Peripheral Controller (PSIPC) Memory — 2 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets — Supports DDR400/333/266/200 DIMM — Supports 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB unbuffered DRAM — Supports up to 2GB DRAM (Max) — Supports only 2.5V DDR DIMM I/O Control — IT8705 Slots — 1 AGP slot supports 8X/4X mode, AGP3.0 8X interface at 533MHz — 3 PCI slots support 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant On-Board IDE — 2 IDE controllers provide IDE HDD/CD-ROM (IDE1, IDE2) with PIO, Bus Master(DMA33/ATA66/ATA100/ATA133) operation modes Serial ATA 2 Serial ATA connectors in 150 MB/s operation mode English Built-in VIA VT8237 (Note 1) On-Board Peripherals 1 Floppy port supports 2 FDD with 360K, 720K,1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88M bytes 1 Parallel port supports Normal/EPP/ECP mode 2 Serial ports (COMA & COMB) 8 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports 1 IrDA connector for IR 1 Front Audio connector Hardware Monitor CPU/System fan revolution detect CPU temperature detect CPU warning temperature System voltage detect CPU/System fan fail warning Thermal shutdown function On-Board LAN Built-in RTL8100C (10/100 Mbit) 1 RJ45 port On-Board Sound ALC655 CODEC Supports Jack Sensing function Line Out / 2 front speaker Line In / 2 rear speaker (by s/w switch) Mic In / center & subwoofer (by s/w switch) SPDIF In / Out CD In / AUX In / Game port On-Board SATA RAID Built-in VIA VT8237 Supports disk striping (RAID 0) or disk mirroring (RAID 1) Supports UDMA up to 150 MB/sec Up to 2 SATA devices PS/2 Connector PS/2 Keyboard interface and PS/2 Mouse interface BIOS Licensed AWARD BIOS Supports Q-Flash English Additional Features — PS/2 Keyboard password power on — PS/2 Mouse power on — STR(Suspend-To-RAM) — AC Recovery — USB KB/Mouse wake up from S3 — Poly fuse for keyboard over-current protection — Supports Thermal Shutdown function — Supports @BIOS — Supports EasyTune 4 Overclocking — Over Clock (CPU/DDR/AGP/PCI) by BIOS Download manual http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...me=GA-K8VT800M
Keywords:	athlon64 amd gigabyte k8 via 8237 k8t800 754 ga-k8vt800m
/sbin/lspci output:	00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80) 00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) 00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South] 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
Chipset:	VIA 8237 / VIA K8T800 H.T. Bus/AGP/VLINK

Author

09-29-2006, 01:09 AM

fozner

Registered: Aug 2006

Posts: 133

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $130.00 | Rating: 5

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.23.14-107.fc8
Distribution:	Fedora 8 x86_64

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Rating 5: Usable--with tweaks

* Built-in network adapter goes to sleep and Kernel 2.6.23 series has trouble waking it up. The result is LAN becomes unresponsive after a while. Dmesg reports (search google for netdev watchdog timeout) and after that it cannot be reset by ifdown/ifup until full reboot is done.

* Nvidia 6800 graphics card generates Xid:0 errors with this board when the video card mysteriously loses its IRQ, resulting in a black featureless screen. Can still switch to a terminal and type (blindly) or telnet in remotely and shut down, however.

Putting noapic in /etc/grub.conf fixes both problems:
kernel /vmlinuz-$$$$$KERNEL VERSION$$$$$ ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet psmouse_noext=1 noapic

* The psmouse_noext=1 is to fix another issue where the mouse becomes verrrrry slooooow after coming back from sleep mode.

* WARNING: Be careful when recording with Audacity using this board. The microphone quit working back in 2006 when I had the mixer set wrong and a feedback loop burned out the preamp in the VIA8237 sound chip. I can still record from line-in, however. I have since plugged in another sound card so I can use the microphone.

* Also, the thing sometimes shuts down when I bump it. I think it's a loose power cable but I can't seem to narrow it down.

http://thenerdshow.com/images/k8vt800m.jpg

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