ABIT IS7-G V Bios 2.02

In terms of features the IS7-G is pretty run of the mill with 5.1

audio, Serial ATA/Serial ATA RAID, IEEE 1394 and 3Com Gigabit LAN.

If you need to expand, there are five PCI slots and an 8x AGP slot

to drop your hardware into.

The layout of the IS7-G is pretty good. The main ATX power and

floppy drive connectors are in their ideal location to the right of

the DIMM slots. Because Abit places the regular IDE channels on the

lower half of the motherboard, they turn the ports 90 degrees so

they do not interfere with system air flow, or adjacent PCI

devices.

To help keep the power to the processor stable, Abit places the

ATX12V connector right next to the MOSFETs. Newbies need not fear

installing the IS7-G either because the motherboard is very well

labelled.

In the dark relm of overclocking, we were able to coax a speed of

237 MHz FSB out of the board we tested with a little help from a

friendly P4 3.0C.

The things I disliked most about the IS7-G is the location of the

IEEE 1394 connectors. Where they are, they sit right in front of

most videocard GPU HSF's. I like a little space around the

videocard at all times - kinna like rock star.