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Sharky Extreme : October 15, 2008





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The 750's basic featureset is delivered via a two chip solution, and supports the following features:

AMD-751 Irongate Northbridge

  • 200MHz host bus
  • AGP 2X
  • PC-100 SDRAM support
  • PCI 2.2 compliant
  • ECC support

    AMD-756 Viper Southbridge

  • UDMA/66 on board support
  • 4-port OHCI USB
  • APM 1.2 compliant
  • PCI-ISA bridge
  • Plug and Play support

    Since the 750 is the only meal ticket in town at the moment, Gigabyte's GA-7IX Athlon board utilizes the chipset to good effect as seen by the board's specification sheet:

    CPU:
    AMD-K7 processor module, 500MHz and faster
    Auto-detect processor voltage and clock multiplier up to 10X
    ECC protection on system and cache interfaces

    Chipset:
    AMD-751 Irongate Northbridge
    AMD-756 Viper Southbridge
    Winbond W83977EF Super I/O
    Winbond W83782D System Health Monitor

    Front Side Bus Speed Support:
    100MHz, Automatically set by Athlon CPU

    Memory:
    3 x 168-pin, 3.3v DIMM Sockets, MAX = 768MB (Supports ECC)

    Expansion Slots:
    1 x AGP 2.0 (1X or 2X Mode, 66/133 sideband support)
    5 x PCI 2.2-compliant 32-bot, 33MHz bus mastering slots
    2 x ISA 16-bit slots

    I/O:
    2 Serial, 1 Printer, 4 USB, Floppy, IrDA, Mouse, Keyboard

    Form Factor:
    ATX 2.01, 6 layer PCB, 20.8cm x 30.5cm

    Health Monitoring:
    Flexible temperature sensor under processor heatsink.
    Voltage Monitoring
    Fan Monitoring
    Automatic CPU speed reduction and warning buzzer if CPU overheats

    Miscellaneous:
    Wake on LAN header support, Creative SB-Link connector
    On board PC buzzer
    Internal/External wake up by modem
    3 x Fan headers




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