The AMD Athlon 800Mhz processor
and the Gigabyte GA-71X mainboard

Tuesday, January 25, 2000


The features (continued)

Additional features of the Gigabyte GA-71X, include: Wake on LAN, Wake on Modem Ring, PS/2 connectors, USB connectors, RX/TX connectors for infrared, Power Failure Recovery, and Power-on from the keyboard/mouse/or or alarm. Hardware monitoring of fan speed, CPU temperature, and of voltages is offered as standard equipment on this PC99-compliant motherboard.

Below, a photo of the GA-71X provides a splendid view of its components, and their layout.


Note: Click here for detailed specifications.


Installation

As I mentioned earlier, there are no jumpers to position, nor BIOS options for configuring the processor.

Thus, installation of the GA-71X is child's play, and their remains nothing more than to plug in the cables, and install it into your chosen casing.



The software bundle

The installation CD includes: AMD patches and drivers for the Bus Master and AGP Vgart, audio drivers, optional network drivers, Adobe Acrobat Reader, and DirectX 6.1.

Next: The test results.


GA-7IX


PROCESSOR
Slot A for AMD-K7 Athlon 200MHz FSB Processors
100 MHz System Bus
AUTO Detect CPU Voltage

CHIPSET
AMD® 751(Irongate) North Bridge
AMD® 756(Viper) South Bridge
Winbond W83977EF I/O chip
Winbond W83782D Health chip

MEMORY
16MB to 768MB memory size
3 x DIMM Sockets
Supports 64/128/256 MB SDRAM DIMM Module
Supports ECC Type DIMM Module (72bits)

SLOT
1 x AGP Slot Supports 2X mode
5 x PCI Slot Supports 33MHz & PCI 2.2 compliant
2 x ISA Slot

I / O
2 x Ultra DMA 33/ 66 Bus Master IDE ports on board
1 x FDD, 2 x COM, 1 x LPT, PS/2 Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse on board
2 x USB ports on board
IrDA TX / RX Header (optional)

POWER
ATX Power connector
Power-on by K/B, PS/2 Mouse, LAN,RTC, Modem & Switch
Power-off by Windows ® 95/98 Shut down & Switch
AC Recovery ON/OFF control
3 Level ACPI LED Support
Stop CPU Fan during entering suspend mode

FORM FACTOR
ATX , 6 layer PCB (30.5*20.8cm)

H/W MONITORING
Auto speed down and Alarm when CPU overheat or Fan failure
(OS independent & Driverless)
3 Fan Power & Speed Detection Connectors
Case open Detection
System Health status detect & report by BIOS & SIV
H/W detect Αξ5V, Αξ12V, CPU Voltage & CMOS battery Status

BIOS
2Mbit Flash RAM
AWARD BIOS with Enhanced ACPI Feature for PC98 / Win98 Compliance, Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (>8.4GB) & Anti-Virus functions
IDE#1~#4, SCSI, LS120, ZIP & CD-ROM bootable
Auto-detect & report system health status

OTHER FEATURES
Suspend-To-RAM (STR)
Includes Wake-On-LAN Header (WOL)
Includes Wake-On-Ring (WOR)
Poly fuse for keyboard, USB, VGA & Game overcurrent protection

DRIVERS
SIV utility
AMD® AGP miniport driver
AMD® bus master IDE driverm, supports UDMA 33/66