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A couple of years back, Intel had completely dropped support for the Socket 7 platform starting from the release of the Pentium II and Celeron processors. At the time, CPU manufacturers such as AMD, Cyrix (before being purchased by VIA), IDT (the Centaur division also owned by VIA), IBM and Rise remained on the Socket 7 bandwagon as they knew it was costly for the consumer moving to a Slot 1 solution.
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RED FOX Super Socket7 Motherboard
Review
 A couple of years back, Intel had
completely dropped support for the Socket 7 platform starting from the release
of the Pentium II and Celeron processors. At the time, CPU manufacturers such as
AMD, Cyrix (before being purchased by VIA), IDT (the Centaur division also owned
by VIA), IBM and Rise remained on the Socket 7 bandwagon as they knew it was
costly for the consumer moving to a Slot 1 solution.
These manufacturers did realize this and has
had tremendous support behind them from Socket 7 fans. More so with AMD, with
their entire product line being based upon the Socket 7 interface with CPUs such
as the K6-2 and the K6-3 (having been their flagship CPU). Times have changed
now.
Today, AMD's top line CPU, the Athlon is based upon their Slot A interface. Of
course, not everyone is in a position to afford such a CPU. For AMD fans who
cannot who feel this solution is way beyond their pocket books, the Socket 7
platform is still the bed in which their answer lies. With the cost of the K6-2
and K6-3 CPUs now at a very affordable price with performance on par with other
Intel CPUs, the Socket 7 is still very much in demand, though perhaps not as
much as before.
Reviewed here is the Red Fox AGP ALi Motherboard based
upon the ALi Aladdin V chipset. A board which sells well with AMD fans here in
India. Though compared to today's standards, it isn't as feature packed as one
would want, but it certainly does provide for an affordable solution to regular
PC users who really aren't interested in overclocking or staying ahead of the
other clan of performance hungry PC
users.
Specifications
Below are the various features and specifications of this Red Fox
mainboard.
- ZIF 321-pin Socket 7
- Support for Intel Pentium/Pentium
MMX, Cyrix MI and certain Cyrix MII CPUs, AMD K5 and K6-x line of CPUs
- ALi
Aladdin M1543/M1542 chipset
- Host bus at 60, 66, 75, 83, 100MHz
- 2 SIMM
slots
- 2 DIMM slots
- 512KB Pipeline Burst Cache
- 3 ISA / 3 PCI / 1
AGP
- Ultra DMA/33 support
- Baby AT form factor with AT/ATX power
connectors, 22cm x 25cm
- ACPI support
The board is bundled with the
usual HDD, FDD and COM port cables. One driver/manual CD is included along with
a copy of PC-Cillin. A 46-page manual is also included, mainly filled with
jumper configurations for various CPUs.
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