ABIT - ABIT NF7 v2.0 Review

Ilya Gavrichenkov takes a look at revision 2.0 of the ABIT NF7:

The NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 will be officially announced together with the Athlon XP processors supporting 400MHz bus. So, there is not so much waiting left now. New nForce2 Ultra 400 revisions are marked anew. The first nForce2 officially supporting 400MHz bus is marked as A1. As you can see from the photo, it is very easy to distinguish between the old chipsets and the new ones with the official support of 400MHz bus, even though there is no Ultra 400 marking. For example, NVIDIA doesn’t use the metal cover for the chipset anymore, which used to be typical of older nForce2 SPP. The software utilities recognize the new nForce2 revision as C1. This way, the major distinguishing feature of ABIT NF7 2.0 from the earlier board revisions is the full official support of Socket A processors with 400MHz bus. In fact, this is why ABIT NF7 2.0 uses a new BIOS version.

ABIT NF7 2.0 Mainboard and AMD Athlon XP Barton Processor with 400MHz Bus @ X-bit labs