Gigabyte GA-7vax:



No holes around the CPU socket, so forget about your ALPHA PAL8045 or that fancy Swiftech.

The box this motherboard comes in clames the following:



And as by wonder.. the system BOOTS! with the Hercules R9700Pro in place. Finally.. I get into windows.. check the CPU speed. huh? what 5.5x100?? It doesn´t seem to handle the unlocked XP2200+ very well. No problem I think. Reboot and quickly change the settting in the BIOS.

No multiplier controle in the BIOS! Only by using jumpers! This must be the most overclockers unfriendly motherboard in the roundup. Memory timings in the BIOS? Sure if you press CTRL-F1! And you will only know this if you:
a) read the manual front to back and over again with attention to every line
b) asked on a forum
c) read it in a review

Very user friendly indeed.

At this point I was getting very desperate and seeing this appear in windows didn´t help things one bit!


AGP disabled.. uhm


Let´s get to the conclusion before any accidents happen to these KT400 motherboards...