Iwill KD266 Ali Magik socket A
Tuesday, July 03, 2001
Introduction
After the recent deluge of KT133A motherboards, it's nice to recieve something different; specifically, the KD266, which is based on the Ali Magik chipset. So far, we haven't had the opportunity to review too many of these devices, but, so far, they've all managed to impress us with their performance. For the record, the KD266 supports 133MHz FSB CPUs, and ATA/100 drives, but not DDR266 memory.
Let's take a closer look.
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Iwill KD266 Hardware characteristics
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CPU
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Supports Socket A for AMD¨ Athlon¨ and Duron¨ processors
Supports AMD¨ Athlon¨ processors from 700 MHz to 1.2 GHz +
Supports AMD¨ Duron ¨ processors from 600 MHz to 800 MHz +
Supports adjustable Vocre function
Supports 266/200 MHz front side bus
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Chipset
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Ali¨M1649,BGA528 chipset
Ali¨1535D+,BGA352 chipset
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Form factor
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ATX - 30.5cm X 19.3cm
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Expansion
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6 PCI - 0 ISA - 1 AGP - 4 USB
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Memory
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3 168-pin DIMM 3Gb SDRAM PC100/PC133
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FSB
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100Mhz to 180Mhz in 1Mhz increment
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Vcore adj.
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Ajustable between 1.125vdc and 1.850vdc in steps of 0.025vdc.
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Vio adj.
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NA
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Audio chipset
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embeded into the chipset
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Configuration
Configuration of the KD266 is accomplished from within the BIOS, as there are no on-board jumpers relating to the CPU. The only jumper of interest to most users relates to DRAM voltage, and can be used to augment that setting by 5 or 10%.
As for configuring the CPU, user's will find themselves presented with BIOS options for modifying the FSB frequency, the Vcore voltage (as indicated by the table above), and the clock multiplier - which can be set to between 5x and 12.5x.
Memory timing settings can be adjusted from within the "Advanced Chipset Features" menu, where users can change the CAS Latency, the Refresh Queue, DRAM Performance, and the Refresh Rate. Please note that we didn't find any options for changing the memory bus frequency...
Next: Technical details.
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