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Freeway Design FWD-A7KA Motherboard Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Sunday, September 23, 2001

Introduction

We have another Freeway product in the Ninja Lane lab, this time an AMD motherboard called the FWD-A7KA. This board is very similar to the FWD-CUPA in features, layout, and color. The board uses the KM133 chipset and has an integrated ProSavage video processor. The video chip isn't much for high-end gaming since system ram is used for video ram but it does quite well for all 2D and light 3D applications.

The FWD-A7KA is feature packed with little or no need for expansion cards. Some of the standard chipset features include 3 memory slots supporting up to 1.5GB of SDRAM, 4x AGP Pro, 5 PCI, AMR, 100/133 Front Side Bus. There are a small handful of alternate FSB settings though not enough to be real overclocker friendly. Though the chipset does support both 200 and 266 AMD processors giving this board plenty of processor flexibility.