Specifications

abit NF7-M
Written by Stephen
Friday, 04 September 2009 10:42
motherboards, so if you’re looking to find a driver, this would be the place to do it. When you
first insert the disc into your CD-ROM, the main window will pop up right to the driver install
window. Here, you simply click which drivers to install and you’re good to go. Within the main
window, you’ll also be able to install any of the software you wish to. The included software suite
is fairly nice with the inclusion of a hardware monitoring program, Adobe Acrobat, and Norton
Anti-Virus. Overall the Abit NF7-M comes along with a decent package, although I’d love to see
Abit throw in an additional IDE cable within the package. It’d be nice to see a feature or two
added to this board such as the SATA RAID which is featured on the SPP based NF7-S,
although due to the fact that the price of this board is already raised due to the integrated
graphics, it is understandable that Abit would choose to do away with some features to keep the
cost down for the consumer.
..:: Feature Set ::..
The Abit NF7-M motherboard comes along with ABIT SoftMenu™ Overclocking, Support for
AGP 8x 3.0 Specifications, Dual Channel DDR (Up to DDR400), 10/100M Ethernet On Board,
6-Channel Audio and Optical S/PDIF Out interface, GeForce4 MX Graphics, and Abit’s 5-bit
FID, along with support for USB 2.0 capable devices. Before we take our customary trip around
the motherboard PC, those of you whom may still be unfamiliar with the features or
specifications of the nForce2 chipset will want to read our quick coverage of the chip on the next
page.
..:: nForce2 IGP / SPP ::..
The majority of the more important features brought to the table by the nForce2 platform belong
to the chipset’s Northbridge. When the first nForce chipset was release, those marketing guru’s
over at NVIDIA decided to take rethink the naming scheme for the nForce2 Northbridge, and
what they came up with was the IGP and SPP. These two acronyms stand for “Integrated
Graphics Platform” and “Single Platform Processor.” The IGP and SPP differ only in the fact that
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