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Legend QDI, a cutting edge developer, manufacturer and supplier
of high-performance, high-end mainboards since 1988, has just
had its KD7 motherboard certified by AMD after completing
stringent tests. Proving its compatibility with Palamino (Athlon
4) and Morgan (Duron) - AMD's new processors to sell against
Pentium 4 - the KD7 becomes one of the first boards in the
world to be given such accreditation.
The Legend QDI KD7 mainboards, randomly selected from the
production line without any prior debug, passed AMD's strict
testing for stability, capacity tolerance, frequency and register
and no Engineering Change Notices were raised. This means
that the product purchased by the end user will be identical
to those that passed the Athlon testing - a guarantee that
no other manufacturer can make. The KD7 not only passed the
new AMD tests first time without fault, a challenge in its
self, it has also been approved to support its fastest CPU
available to date.
"We consider this to be yet another example of our
passion, drive, and ability, to be the market leader,"
explained Nathan Blank, QDI" UK Sales Manager"We
strongly believe in a theory which sees us over-engineering
in all the right places to ensure that our product isn't just
right, but that it surpasses all expectations."
Athlon processors have a 266MHz bus bandwidth that's consistent
with the bus bandwidth of DDR memory. By using VIA's KT266
(8366+8233) chipset, the Legend QDI KD7 motherboard is therefore
ideally designed to support Athlon processors and gets the
best results from DDR memory. Many competitive products suffer
from on-board power fluctuations and harmonic interference,
but by using a four-layer-filter modular system, Legend QDI
has ensured an optimised, interference-free and stable current
supply for the CPU plus a precise bus voltage of 1.5v or 3.3v
and large current for the AGP graphics card, for better performance.
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Key KD7
v.2.0 Features at a glance
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CPU
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AMD Athlon > 1.8GHz+ |
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Chipset
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VIA's KT266A (8366+8233) |
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Slots
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5 PCI, 1 ACR, 1 AGP, and supports up to
6 USB / 2 onboard |
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Bus Speed
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266 MHz |
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Memory
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3 DDR - total 3GB |
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Audio
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Creative CT5880 (optional) / AC97 |
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Storage
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4 IDE > ATA100 + a 3.5'Floppy |
Company Information
Legend QDI was founded in 1988 and is a leading global supplier
of high-end Pentium and AMD mainboards. It is also part of
China headquartered Legend Group, that employs over 10,000
people, manufactures a vast array of high technology products
and reported revenue in 2000 of 3.43 Bn $US. Legend QDI has
led the industry in delivering cutting edge technology and
innovative features such as SpeedEasy, LogoEasy, ManageEasy,
SecurityEasy, BootEasy and StepEasy plus has built long-term
customer relationships by providing outstanding engineering,
innovation, quality and reliability. For more information
on all Legend QDI products, that are available through OEMs
and distributors, please call 01753 554004; email nathan@qdi.co.uk
<mailto:nathan@qdi.co.uk> or visit www.qdi.nl
For more information, photography or to arrange an interview,
contact:
Douglas Millard / Adam Cattell at Byron PR on +44 (0)1895
252131 or E-mail douglas@thebyrongroup.com <mailto:Douglas@TheByronGroup.com>
/ adam@thebyrongroup.com
Client contact details:
QDI Computer (UK) Ltd, 2/F Seymour House, 186 High Street,
Slough, SL1 1JS T:+44 (0)1753 554004 WWW.qdi.nl
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