Albatron KX600S Pro Review

     Albatron is now celebrating it's 2nd anniversary and is steadily gaining ground as motherboard and graphics card manufacturer. The KX600S Pro is a VIA KT600 chipset based, AMD Athlon XP motherboard. This board will give you lots of bang for your buck. It won't outrun a good nForce 2 based board, but if you are a VIA fan and need of a board with good performance and GREAT on-board sound on a small budget,  this may be your board.

Specifications:

AMD Athlon™/Athlon™XP/ Athlon™XP Barton/Duron™Processor
Socket 462 with FSB 200/266/333/400 MHz
3 DDR333/266//400 Memory Sockets
AGP 8X , 6 channel AC 97 Audio
2 Serial ATA150 Channels, Serial ATA RAID 0,1
2 ATA133 Channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE Devices
3Com 10/100 Ethernet LAN
8 USB 2.0/1.1 Ports (6 ports by optional cable)

Processor
AMD Athlon™/Athlon™XP/ Athlon™XP Barton/Duron™Processor

FSB
200/266/333/400 MHz

Chipset
North Bridge : VIA KT600
South Bridge : VIA 8237
LAN Chip : 3Com 3C920 LAN Chip
AC97 Audio Codec : Realtek ALC655
I/O Chip : Winbond W83697HF

Memory
3 * DDR sockets
DDR266/333/400 NON-ECC DDR SDRAM up to 3GB
Note 1: If the FSB of your CPU is 200 MHz, the memory speed supports only DDR 266
Note 2: If the FSB of your CPU is 266/333/400 MHz, the memory speed supports DDR 266/333/400

Expansion Slots
1 x AGP 8X slot ( 1.5V Only )
5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.2 compliant)

IDE Connectors
2 ATA133 channels, up to 4 ATA 133 IDE devices

Onboard I/O Connectors
1 x Floppy Connector
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 header(6 ports by optional cable)
1 x CD IN header
1 x SPDIF in/out header (SPDIF in/out cable optional)
1 x CPU fan header with fan rotation detection function
1 x System fan headers with fan rotation detection function
1 x10 pin system panel header (Intel spec)
1 x3 Power LED header
1 x Front audio header (Intel spec)
1 x Case Open detection header

I/O via Back Panel
PS/2 keyboard/mouse, 2 x USB(2.0/1.1), RJ45,2 x Com (serial), 1 x Parallel, 1x Game/Line-in/Line-out/MIC

Power
20-pin ATX power connector

BIOS Features
2Mb Flash EEPROM
Award BIOS with ACPI, DMI2.0, PnP, WfM2.0, Green Suspend to RAM (S3), Suspend to Disk (S4) Wake on keyboard, Wake on LAN/RTC Timer

Hardware Monitoring
2 FAN sensors, CPU/System voltages and temperature monitoring

Special Features
Adjustable CPU frequency by 1 MHz increment, Adjustable V_core, V_AGP, V_Memory for overclocking
Watch Dog Timer (auto-reset system when it can not handle overclock configurations)
Special design for CPU Over Temperature Protection.( OTP )

Certifications
FCC, CE, BSMI

Form Factor
ATX (200mm x 293mm)