Review Asus K7M.

I heard a lot about Athlon and it's efficacy.| like to try it too but the supporting mainboards are lack. I think waiting is better.Until Asus K7M comes,this is my choice.Asus product the mobo that don't follow AMD design.So this board is support overclockers like us such as tweaking voltages and FSB adjustable.these help ones who don't like to open cpu case and solder it.Asustek also fear Intel very much so you can't see it's name in box or user's manual and circuit board except only K7M.

Package

Asus ship this in the white box,no printing of its'name.Only has warning about power supply that should be at less 250 watts.The package is composed of

1. K7M motherboard
2. Ribble cable for UDMA/33 and UDMA/66 IDE drives
3. Ribbon cable for floppy drive
4. Bag of spare jumper caps
5. Support CD with driver and utilities
6. User's manual

I don't see component heatsink as seen in the old revision

Specification and Features

AMD Processor Support:242-pin slot A.

North Bridge System Chipset:AMD-751^TM

South Bridge System Chipset:VIA VT 82C686A supports UDMA/66 with burst mode data tranfer rates up to 66MB/sec.

Memory Support: 3 DIMM slots supports PC100-complaint SDRAMs up to 678 MB.

Expansion Slot Option: 4 PCI and 2 ISA slots or 5 PCI and 1 ISA slots

Thermal Sensor Support: 2

AGP Slot:1X or 2X mode bus.

AMR slot:Supports audio and/or modem riser card.

USB Support: Up to 4 USB ports.

Bus speed:Supports 90,95,101-125(1 increaments),133,140,150

Multiple: Auto-detect.

Wake Up Support:Supports Wake-On-Lan and Wake-On-Ring.

Voltage Tweaking:Supports voltage setting via jumper,1.3 to 2.05 volts.

Fan Connector:Supports 3 fans.

Thermal Monitor:Supports 2 sensor connectors and 3 thermal monitors.

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