Socket-A VIA KT133 Motherboard Roundup - August 2000

QDI KinetiZ 7T
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CPU Interface	Socket-A
Chipset	VIA KT133
Form Factor	ATX
Bus Speeds	100 / 102 / 104 / 106 / 107 / 108 / 109 / 110 / 111 / 112MHz
Voltages Supported	Auto Detect
Memory Slots	3 168-pin DIMM Slots
Expansion Slots	1 AGP Slot 5 PCI Slots (5 Full Length) 1 AMR Slot 1 ISA Slot
BIOS	AWARD 6.00PGN

The QDI KinetiZ 7T was the first motherboard that officially announced that it would be able to manipulate the clock multiplier of the AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) & Duron CPUs. Little did we know at the time that what QDI was boasting wasn't that difficult to accomplish, regardless, the KinetiZ 7T is one of the handful of boards that does support clock multiplier manipulation.

In spite of this there is no voltage control on the board itself, meaning you'll have to adjust the voltage settings manually on the processor itself if you have a conductive pen or some conductive epoxy handy.

The QDI board demonstrated above average stability in our stress tests. The KinetiZ 7T has no external ATA-100/RAID controllers and is a fairly simple design.