HotHardware has posted a comparison between Soyo's K7-DRAGON and Gigabyte's 7DXR
The Athlon has arguably become the CPU of choice amongst the influential Enthusiast / Do-It-Yourself community, and many top tier OEMs are widely releasing powerful, full-featured motherboards to house AMD's speedy CPU...and they want everyone to know about it! There are also competing chipsets available from companies like VIA, ALi, SiS and AMD. Currently, the two most popular DDR capable chipsets for the Athlon are VIA's KT266 and AMD's own 760. Today, we'll be taking a look at two boards, the Soyo K7-DRAGON based on the VIA KT266 and the Gigabyte 7DXR which is an AMD 761 / VIA 686B hybrid. These two boards offer a host of extras, like RAID and on-board audio, but which one belongs in the rigs of the discriminating H.H. readers? Let's find out...Read more
