Abit BL7-RAID Reviewed

PC Hardware reviewed the 845 based motherboard Abit BL7 RAID.

Although theperformance of the SDRAM is far from RDRAM they found that BL7 is a good and reliable motherboard with several strong features. PC Hardware also identified several areas where 845 can be used without compromising the performance. There are also areas where the use of 845 is highly not recommended. The motherboard was tested using Content Creation Winstone 2001, Business Winstone 2001, Bapco Sysmark 2001 and several other custom made tests. They used Windows 2000 SP2 and Mandrake Linux 8.1 to test reliability, performance and compatibility.

Here's a tidbit from the review:

"Of course that there will be a new Celeron, but it will be based on a Pentium 4 core. We were not able to find out if it will be socket compatible with the 478 Pentium 4. We asked the Intel representative about the new DDR Intel platform for Pentium 4 and about its performance. He was not able to tell us exactly when the new chipset will be released on the market, but he knew several things about the performance of the chipset: between 845 and 850. Definitely RAMBUS will still be the highest performance platform for Pentium 4. The next logical question was about the release of a new chipset for RAMBUS. The answer was clear: not soon."

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