Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 Dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro133A ATX
by Mike Andrawes on May 28, 2001 12:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Final Words
Quite frankly, the GA-6VXD7 is not a very impressive board when one considers the features and the performance that it offers. By comparison, the scenario is very similar to the Gigabyte KT133 and KT133A boards where the original version of the KT133 by Gigabyte fell behind in performance and overclocking ability, while the later revision 2.2 board with the KT133A chipset, improved upon these weaknesses dramatically by including tons of overclocking features while simultaneously boosting performance by a noticeable amount.
On one hand Gigabyte has made a decent dual Socket-370 Apollo Pro 133A boards in terms of reliability, and that's what we have seen in general with Gigabyte's solutions. But on the other hand, Gigabyte still has quite a bit of work to do on the GA-6VXD7 before it becomes a true killer. Overclocking features are something they definitely have to work on, while additional features like an IDE RAID controller would be nice as well. Gigabyte should also now know that the reason for their poor performance lies in the less aggressive memory timings, something that should be very easy to change.
Indeed as the VIA Apollo Pro266 chipset starts to emerge, Gigabyte could definitely modify their current solution to adapt the new chipset and also the extra features. The only thing that they have to be careful is to make the move fast, unlike the GA-7ZXR (2.2) case where the good solution was too little too late.
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5.5
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8.5
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4.0
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8.5
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