Comparison review of 16 socket A mainboards

Friday, March 16, 2001


Feature evaluation

Now, we'll apply a score to each board that has recieved a score on our evaluation grid. Each score received in opur standard reviews will be divided by 10 in order to determine a note for each board based over ten.

Characteristics of the Socket A motherboards
Manufacturer
Model
Score
Abit
KT7 RAID
9.2
AOpen
AK73 Pro
9.0
Azza
KT133BX
8.0
Chaintech
CT-7AJA
8.4
DFI
AK74-SC
7.9
ECS
K7VZA
8.3
ECS
K7VZM
7.2
EPoX
EP-8KTA+
8.7
EPoX
EP-8KTA3
9.0
Fic
AZ11
7.7
Gigabyte
GA-7ZX
8.5
Gigabyte
GA-7ZXR
8.4
MSI
K7T Pro-2A
8.9
Soltek
SL-75KV
8.5
Soyo
SY-K7VTA
7.7
Shuttle
AK10
7.7


While the above table seems similar to the evaluation we performed previously, the evaluation grid takes many more factors into consideration, and represents a better comparitive score of our contestants.


Now, if we summate our cumulative scores thus far, we get:

1: Abit KT7 RAID = 17.2
2: EPoX EP-8KTA3 = 16
3: MSI K7T Pro-2A = 14.9
4: EPoX EP-8KTA+ = 14.7
5: Soltek SL-75KV = 13.5
6: AOpen AK73 Pro = 12

Now we have a precise comparitive view of the various qualities of our competitors, both in terms of standard equipments, and of features supported.

Next, it remains to determine how they stack against eachother in terms of performance...

Next: Winbench CPUmark99 Comparison.