Abit is a name synonymous with high-quality, rock stable and overclocking friendly motherboards. The company caters to enthusiast needs and is truly an innovator in the industry. Throughout the years, Abit has innovated exclusive technologies that allow overclockers to push their systems to extreme limits. These technologies include their famous SoftMenu BIOS and the latest uGuru technology, a real-time overclocking utility. Naturally, they haven’t just concentrated their efforts on tweaking, but also on the board layout and the rest of the features that really make a motherboard an all rounder in its category. We are of course talking about the idea behind 90 degrees rotated IDE and floppy connectors that other manufacturers have adopted due to its preference by the community.

Thus far in the week, we have taken a look at four K8T800 boards that are quite affordable and perform rather impressively when you take their prices into consideration. Sure, they are not the most enthusiast friendly boards in the market, but they will certainly come in handy when shopping for value components for an affordable gaming or general-purpose machine. Today, we bring you Abit’s KV8 Pro motherboard that is based on a more flexible and enthusiast friendly chipset, VIA’s K8T800 Pro. It’s actually rather notable to compare features and performance of the K8T800 Pro to its predecessor. In the K8T800 Pro chipset, VIA adds one of the most important features to an overclocker, the AGP/PCI lock. It’s possible that the K8T800 boards had overclocking potential, but due to the lack of the aforementioned feature, almost all boards struggled to reach even a mediocre 225MHz bus speed. The situation obviously didn’t improved when some motherboards did not come with chipset voltage or high enough DRAM voltage to support die-hard activities, but considering that the K8T800 was one of the first, if not the first, chipset to support Athlon 64 microprocessors, we shouldn’t be too surprised. First batch of products and technologies usually have things that need to be worked out and with the K8T800, there were far too many to impress the overclocking community.

With the K8T800 Pro, all that has changed. Not only there are more features, but with Abit’s uGuru technology, you can tweak almost every aspect of the board to your liking. The board features a clean layout and sounds promising from its feature set. How well does the K8T800 Pro stack up against the K8T800? Does it have what it takes to please the overclockers? Read on and find out…

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