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ABIT KV8 MAX3 Taking it to the streets
(Review by MS, November 24, 2003)

ABIT KV8 MAX3 (OTES removed)
VIA K8T800 / VT8237, ALC 658 AC'97, TI TSB43AB23 IEEE1394, Silicon Image 3114R SATA RAID, 3Com Gigabit, ABIT µGuru

CPU Interface Socket 754 for AMD Athlon64 processors Chipset VIA K8T800 AGP Tunnel VIA VT8237 SouthBridge PSB Options 200-300 MHz in 1 MHz stepping Fixed PCI frequency at 33 MHz DRAM support 3x 184 pin DDR memory expansion slots for single/ dual channel operation 1GB density/ memory slot for 3 GB total system RAM (PC2100, PC2700 PC3200 DDR) DDR 400 support only for DIMM slots 1+2 or 1+3 combination. STR support DRAM Frequency and Latency Options Memory Frequency: DDR200, 266, 333, 400 CAS Latency, tRCD, tRP, tRC, tRAS, tRFC, tRW, tRWT (Full Listing of all settings here) AGP Capablity 4x-8x depending on graphics card interface. Voltage Adjustments Vcore: Auto, =>+ 350 mV in 1 mV steps vDDR 2.5-3.05 in BIOS vAGP 1.5, 1.65 V in BIOS

Expansion Slots 1 x 32 bit AGP 8X 6 x 32 bit PCI slots I/O interface 2 x ATA/133 IDE connectors (VT8237) 2 x SATA 1.5Gb connectors (VT8237) with support for RAID Level0 and 1 4 x SATA 1.5Gb connectors (SiI 3114) with support for RAID Level0 and 1 1 x Floppy connector 2 x PS/2 connectors (keyboard and mouse) 4 x USB 2.0 ports (back panel) 2 x Internal USB 2.0 pin header (two ports each) 5 x Analog Audio connectors: five separate analog I/O jacks (Mic-In, Line-In, Front L/R, Rear L/R, Center/Bass) 1 x Optical-Out port (S/PDIF) 1 x Optical-In port (SPDIF) 1 x Firewire port (Back Panel) 2 x Firewire header (with Firewire module included) 1 x SMBus header LAN On board 3Com/Marvel Gigabit controller 10/100/1000 Mbps full duplex operations LAN Boot ROM Onboard Sound Realtek ALC658 six channel Audio CODEC S/PDIF digital audio 1 x 4-pin CD-ROM audio-in header 1 x 4-pin AUX header BIOS Phoenix Award v6.00 PG Form Factor ATX 305 x 245 mm

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