GIGABYTE Introduces AMDTMAthlon^®/Duron 200MHz FSBMicro ATX Socket A PC133motherboard, GA-7ZM

Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd, one of the world'sleading high performance motherboard manufacturers,has done it again with its new model, GA-7ZM, the outstanding Socket A MicroATX form factor motherboard adopted the latest K7 supported chipset from VIA,the KT133.

With capability to support 133MHz SDRAM memory, 200 MHz FSB (Front SideBus), and the latest Socket A (0.18 micro) Athlon^®/Duron processor from AMD,these features make this motherboard ready for value processor like Duron and allthe way to their high performance 1GHz processor. GA-7ZM has the possibility toupgrade to the latest and greatest 4X AGP graphics accelerator cards on themarket now and in the future. This new VIA chipset also supports software modeminterface, the AMR slot, and software audio (AC 97). The Ultra DMA 66 BusMaster interface provides an excellent and faster connection for IDE devices.

Designed as the Socket A, Micro ATX form factor and latest VIA KT133 chipset tosupport AMD Athlon^®/Duron processor with full speed L2 cache in PGA 462configuration. The Memory speed of GA-7ZM motherboard can be set to autodetects or manually to 133 MHz and supports Athlon^®/Duron processor up to andbeyond 1GHz. It also supports many power-up features like power up by modemand LAN card. GA-7ZM includes 4 USB port, 2 channel Ultra DMA 66 Bus MasterIDE ports, 3 PCI 2.2 compliant slots, 1 AGP 4x slot, 1 reverse AMR (requirespecial AMR card) and 3 DIMM sockets to support PC133 compliant SDRAM.GA-7ZM not only support all the default features from this new VIA chipset, it alsohas added feature from GIGABYTE. This includes the most advance powermanagement scheme Suspend to RAM (STR). It is the perfect choice for AMDAthlon^®/Duron Micro ATX system solution.