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Biostar M7VIG400

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Biostar M7VIG400

Reviews	Views	Date of last review
1	7997	01-09-2007

Recommended By	Average Price	Average Rating
100% of reviewers	$84.99	8.0

Description:	Features/Specifications: * Biostar M7VIG 400 Socket A mATX Motherboard w/Geode NX 1750 CPU * General Features: * Socket A AMD Geode NX 1750 CPU INCLUDED * VIA KM266 Pro+ VT8235 chipset * Socket A * microATX form factor * 200/266/333 MHz system interface speed * Supports up to 2.0 GB DDR266/333/400 SDRAM * Two (2) UDMA/33/66/100/133 IDE controllers * One (1) floppy controller * S3 UniChrome Pro 2D/3D Graphics * 64 MB Shared Memory * C-Media CMI9761A 6-Channel AC'97 CODEC * VIA VT6103 ethernet controller * Expansion Slots: * One (1) 4x AGP slot * Three (3) PCI slots * One (1) CNR slot * Two (2) 184-pin DIMM slots * I/O Ports: * Two (2) PS/2 ports * One (1) 9-pin Serial port * One (1) Parallel port * One (1) 15-pin VGA port * Two (2) USB ports * Mic in, Line in, Line out * One (1) RJ-45 ethernet jack * Hardware Monitor Function: * CPU/System Fan Speed * System Voltage * CPU/System Temperature * Overall Dimensions: * 7.64 inches x 9.61 inches (W x L) * Supported Processors: * AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (166 MHz) * AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (133 MHz) * AMD Sempron 2800+ (166 MHz) * AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz (133 MHz) * AMD Duron 1.8 GHz (133 MHz) * AMD Duron 1.3 GHz (100 MHz) * Note: This version motherboard also supports AMD Geode NX 1250 / 1500 / 1750 * Regulatory Approvals: * CE * FCC * CPU Information: * AMD Geode NX 1750 Processor * 1.4 GHz Frequency * 128Kbyte L1 cache * 256Kbyte L2 cache with hardware data prefetch * 266MHz AMD processor system bus with 133MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) * Integrated support for 3DNow! technology, MMX and SSE instruction sets * Advanced 0.13µm fabrication process for higher frequency scaling and lower power consumption * 14 Watts Average Power Consumption * 25 Watts Maximum Thermal Design Power (TDP)
Keywords:	Geode NX Biostar M7VIG400 KM266Pro+ VT8235
/sbin/lspci output:	00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 00:0f.0 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) 00:10.4 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] 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] (rev a3)
Chipset:	KM266 Pro+ VT8235
Connection Type:	Socket A

Author

01-09-2007, 11:18 PM

hbush

Registered: Aug 2003

Distribution: PCLinuxOS, Mandriva x86-64

Posts: 48

Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $84.99 | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r):	2.6.16.29.tex1
Distribution:	PCLinuxOS 0.93

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This board is interesting because besides being normal Socket A board it recognizes and accepts also Geode NX processors. I use it with low-power consumption AMD Geode NX 1750 CPU (14 W at 1.4 GHz, Bogomips: 2744) in a small AOpen H340 case for a 365/24 small network management node. With additional grahics card, low-profile GeForce4 MX 440 it shows 1005 FPS with glxgears.

Installation of PXLinuxOS 0.92, later 0.93 was easy and absolutely with no problems. During about 6 months non-stop work there has not been any problem with this m/b or PC. It just works. It is also not overheating because of low power consumption.

This m/b has on-board S3 UniChrome Pro 2D/3D Graphics which might be better :) but probably would be good enough for many applications. I have not tested and am not using sound features of this board.

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