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| Quality | 4.3/10   |
|---|---|
| Ease of Set Up | 4.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 3.7/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 4.3/10 |
| Overall Rating | 5/10 |
Full review by
PHREDD
on 29th May 2005
User Rating : 8
Respect :
-1
Good Points: Good stable board in my opinion. Safety features and board info are helpful.
Bad Points: Limited upgrades.
General comments: I've had my Gigabyte GA-7ZX for about 4 years now and have had limited problems with it. I'm only running an AMD Thunderbird 850 chip and I have good stable game play on almost everything I play. Although I plan on building another system this summer, I will continue to use a Gigabyte board. If you are having boot up problems with this board you might want to buy yourself a how to book or just read the manual that comes with it.
PHREDD's review and ratings | 97 words
Review by
Dave OH
on 6th Sep 2004
User Rating : 3
Respect :
0
After all this time I have found the reason for the instability (if it will run at all) of the motherboard with the AMD Thunderbird processor. It is not the motherboard itself but the inability of the VIA KT-133 Chipset to handle timing problems due to the design of the AMD Socket A CPU, (longer traces length which meant that the processor could be used with the less common AMD 750 chipset but not the KT-133). So my upgrade Thunderbird chip is of no use.
Dave OH's full review | 84 words
Review by
Nightwind.
on 21st Jun 2002
User Rating : 6
Respect :
+2
The bad point about the Giga-Byte GA-7 ZX motherboard is that the board often fails on 1st boot-up and hangs. But subsequent boots will succeed.
The good point is the board is stable once its booted up. I leave my system on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and reboot maybe once every 4-7 days so the booting problem does not bother me.
So far the system has not crashed, even when I leave on 3 days running as a on-line game server (Medal Of Honour) or as a P2P server for Kazaa downloads.
Of ...
Nightwind.'s full review | 145 words
Review by
is.
on 20th Apr 2002
User Rating : 2
Respect :
-2
I have found the GA-7ZX motherboard from Giga-Byte unstable. Often fails to boot. Dodgy stuff.
is.'s full review | 16 words
Review by
Dark~Destiny.
on 4th Jan 2002
User Rating : 0
Respect :
+2
I bought 2 motherboards from GIGA-BYTE in the last year and both have done nothing but fail me and my expectations. One was a dual cpu workstation for P3 cpus the second an AMD XP board. They both fail to boot and show a bios. After 6 days of messing around I finally got the dual cpu board to work for about 3 months and one day it died. Called and emailed the company to no avail, they kept sending me emails with more phone numbers to call so I just gave up, not learning from my first mistake I b ...
Dark~Destiny.'s full review | 166 words
Review by
Doc.
expert review 
on 6th Apr 2001
User Rating : 6
Respect :
+7
I have had my board for four months now, and I have also had stability and speed problems with it. It seems that Gigabyte, having released a new board, bizarrely felt the need to bundle "old" VIA chipset drivers (4.20) with it that are incompatible with NVidia's GeForce cards. I found that after upgrading the motherboard drivers to the latest version (at the time, 4.24), stability improved greatly over the initial mess I was presented with.
In general, this has improved slightly as the drivers ...
Doc.'s full review | 259 words | 7 comments added.
Review by
Richard.
on 26th Sep 2000
User Rating : 5
Respect :
-1
I just purchased one of these and it seems very slow and
unstable. Does anyone know what might be causing this?
I have:
Athlon Thunderbird 800Mhz
KT-133
nVidia GeForce 256 3D Prophet 32MB
Soundblaster Live! Value
20 Gig Maxtor 7200 harddrive
Richard.'s full review | 38 words
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