Abit NF7-S rev 1.2
Features:
- Socket A for AMD Athlon™, Duron™, Athlon™ XP CPU. Supports 266/333 FSB
- Nvidia Nforce2 SPP Chipset + Nvidia Nforce2 MCP-T
- 1 Floppy drive controller - 2 serial ports - 1 parallel port
- 5 PCI slots - 1 AGP (AGP 8X)
- 2 x E/IDE Ultra DMA/133, 4 drives max.
- 3 x DDR SDRAM PC3200, 3GB max.
- 2 USB 2.0 ports, 4 extra by optional USB back-panel cable
- Realtek ALC650 6-channel full-duplex integrated sound, with NForce Dolby level decoder.
- By ABIT 5-bits FID Override technology, users can get variety of CPU over-clocking sets.
- Onboard LAN 10/100 Mbit
- 2 ports IEEE 1394 (firewire™)
- 2 x SATA 150
- Standard ATX format
Provided in the package:
- Abit NF7-S rev 1.2
- ATA 133/100 cable
- Floppy cable
- SATA cable
- serillel adapter
- molex to sata power connector
- USB bracket (2 ports)
- Firewire bracket (2 ports)
- SATA driver disk
- Abit driver disk
- Abit manual
- I/O shield
Layout:![Madshrimps (c)](http://www.madshrimps.be/files/images/articles/Nforce2pushedto-richbastard-448.jpg)
The abit NF7 has a decent pcb layout, but not perfect. The floppy connector is placed for too high on the motherboard. Placing it next to the other IDE channels would have been a better choice.
I'd rather see the 12V and ATX connector at the side of the motherboard, next to the dimm slots, but it seems like most nforce² boards have this design.
The cpu fan connector is well placed, but the 2 casefan connectors are right next to each other, at a fairly unreachable place at the ATX connector.
I/O panel:
![Madshrimps (c)](http://www.madshrimps.be/files/images/articles/Nforce2pushedto-richbastard-449.jpg)
- 1* PS/2 keyb, 1* PS/2 mouse
- 1* S/P dif out
- 5 audio connectors: (front, rear, center/sub, line in, mic in)
- 2* usb 2.0
- 1* lan
- 2* serial
- 1* parallel
Only 2 usb ports (without the use of an extra USB bracket) can be a bit annoying, but spdif ouf & 5 audio connectors is something what the 8rda+ lacks.