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ASrock K7Upgrade-880 VIA KT880/K8T800 Socket A/754 Gallery 1/3
Bluetooth 20 Sep 2004

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ASrock surprises us with another upgradeable board this week. This board, known as K7upgrade-880 is a Socket A board. The interesting fact about this board is that, you can upgrade it to a full fledge board supporting the Socket 754 Processors by just adding on the 754Bridge card with the 754 CPU + RAM.

Isn't this amazing ? You pay for the board and if you decide to upgrade, you don't have to buy a new board, just add on the upgrade card and there you have it. A brand new system taking advantage of the new CPU speed. This is made possible with the adoption of KT880 chipset as the Dual Channel DDR400 supporting the Socket A processors. As the common South Bridge VIA VT8237 is used, the 754 bridge card comes with the north bridge VIA KT880. Thus when you insert the 754 bridge into the yellow slot on board, the North bridge on board is disabled and the K8T800 takes over.

The board supports all the necessary expansion capabilities and they include SerialATA 1.5Gb/s, RAID 0,1,JBOD, SATA_HDD, USB2.0, 5.1channel Audio, 10/100 Ethernet LAN. The board also supports multiplier control, Vcore adjustments, FSB up to 300MHz FSB.

Below are photos of the package and the 754Upgrade Board.

Package

Specifications

K7Upgrade-880 brief specification
  1. The first K8 upgradeable K7 motherboard in the world
  2. Supports AMD Athlon™XP and Sempron™ processor
  3. Supports DDR400, Dual Channel Technology
  4. ASRock “K8 Bridge Port” – Flexible’n’Easy CPU socket upgrade interface,
  5. Supports AGP 8X/4X 1.5v
  6. Supports Serial ATA – 2 Serial ATA 1.5Gb/s connectors, supports RAID 0,1,JBOD
  7. 5.1-channel Audio, 10/100 Ethernet LAN, ATA133
  8. Hybrid Booster – ASRock Safe Overclocking Technology
  9. Multi-language Quick Installation Guide.
  10. Bundled CD includes drivers, 3D Audio Player, RAID controller, Anti Virus utility, ASRock PC DIY Live Demo, etc.
 
754Bridge socket upgrade module
  1. CPU socket upgrade module, supports ASRock K8 Bridge Port
  2. Socket 754, onboard VIA K8T800 chip, DDR DIMMs
  3. Supports AMD Athlon™64 / Sempron™ processor
  4. Supports HyperTransport™ Technology, AMD Cool‘n’Quiet™ Technology

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