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AAK77-8XN Specifications
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CPU
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AMD
Athlon XP/Athlon/Duron CPU
Socket A
333MHzChipset VIA KT400 |
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Chipset
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VIA
KT400
VIA 8235 |
| Super
I/O |
Winbond |
| Clock
Gen. |
Cypress
Max Overclocking : 496Mhz (EV6) |
| Main
Memory |
Support DDR400 [PC3200]
DDR DIMM x 3
DIMM Type: 8/16/32/64/128/256/512MB & 1GB
Max Memory: 3GB
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| Graphics |
8X
AGP slot |
| IDE |
Integrated
ATA133 Controller
Max Disk: 144,000,000GB [by 48 bits LBA Spec.] |
| LAN |
Realtek
10/100Mbps PCI LAN Chip
Integrated Realtek PHY |
| Sound |
Realtek
AC'97 CODEC on-board
5.1 Channel |
| USB |
USB2.0
x 6 |
| Slots |
AGP
x 1
PCI x 6
CNR x 1 |
Storage
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Back Panel I/O |
Floppy
Drive Connector x 1
IDE Channel : ATA133 x 2
PS/2 Keyboard x 1
PS/2 Mouse x 1
USB Port x 4
LAN Port x 1
COM Port x 2
Printer Port x 1
Speaker_Out x 1
Line_In x 1
MIC_In x 1 |
| On
Board Connector |
Front Panel x 1
Front Audio x 1
CPU FAN x 1
System FAN x 1
Chassis FAN x 1
CaseConnector x 1
AUX_IN x 1
CD_IN x 1
Wake_on_LAN x 1
Wake_on_Modem x 1
IrDA x 1
S/PDIF x 1
Dr LED x 1
Game Connector x 1
USB Port x 2 |
| BIOS |
Award
PnP 2Mb Flash ROM BIOS |
| Form
Factor |
ATX |
| Board
Size |
305 mm x 244 mm |
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The AK77-8X, like I said uses an all black PCB board. It uses
white PCI slots and a chrome north bridge cooling fan. With a
lot of people using side windows in their towers, who wants to
own a mobo that uses a plain brown board? You really don't want
to go to your buddy's LAN party with a plain brown looking mobo,
do you?!
The close up of the north bride fan shows the slick chrome housing.
Again, a very nice touch when your buddies look inside your tower
just to see what is in there, after you owned them in a frag fest.
If you look close at the above picture you will see that A
did put the holes around your socket for installing a heat sink,
like the Swiftech MCX-462 U, which has to be screwed to the board.
Also notice that the capacitors are placed far enough away from
the socket, so that I was able to use my favorite heat sink, the
Thermalright AX-7. It was a little tight of a fit, but just be
careful.
Here is a close up of the six standard PCI slots. Because the
board had built-in sound and LAN, I didn't need to use any of
them. Also, to the right are two audio connectors for your CD
Rom/DVD player and CD burner. Yes, this board was designed to
utilize your burner & CD Rom/DVD player, unlike the Albatron
mobos I have reviewed and used.
Here are you standard IDE connectors that support ATA 66/100/133
specs and right below are the connectors is a red CMOS jumper
in case you need to clear the CMOS. I had to use this a couple
times while over clocking this mobo because it did not like the
high FSB settings I was using.
This is a close up of the south bridge VT8235 and to the left
of it the 2nd USB 2.0 port connector. USB 2.0 is supported on
this board and a USB 2.0 driver disk was included.
The back panel that connects your peripherals supports a PS/2
Keyboard and mouse, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a Com 1 & 2 port, parallel
Port, RJ45 LAN Jack and your audio ports.
Click
for BIOS Screen
The AAK77-8XN uses a Phoenix BIOS and it was loaded with
plenty of options and was very user friendly. The BIOS features
1 MHz stepping CPU over clocking and adjustable V-Core settings
for pushing that over clock higher that you might be after.
Click
for CPU BIOS Screen
This board features adjustable AGP voltage, adjustable memory
voltage and the sweetest thing of all, flashing your BIOS can
be done right in your Windows environment. That's right, just
down load the file from As web site, launch a Windows .exe
file and it takes over for you. I tried this out and have to say
it is the slickest way ever to update your BIOS. It turns a usually
scary task into one any newbee can do.
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for Memory BIOS Screen
The BIOS gives a lot of options for fine tuning the memory timings
so you can push that over clock just one step closer to the edge.
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