Introduction

Elitegroup Computer Systems Co Ltd has been going for the last seventeen years and was amongst the first Taiwanese companies to come across to the UK and set-up a branch office, back in 1990/91. In those early years Elitegroup earned itself a reputation of being a research and development company manufacturing high quality motherboards but with a price tag to match. In a relatively short period of time Elitegroup carved itself a niche area by supplying motherboards into the highly lucrative system integration market segment. Having enjoyed the new found growth in Europe by 1992 Elitegroup had opened a brand new 108,000 sq.ft manufacturing plant in Tam-sui, Taiwan, which was shortly followed by ISO-9002 accreditation for the Tam-sui factory in 1993, Elitegroup could do no wrong, this success was followed by a floatation to become a publicly owned company in Taiwan by 1994. Around this time it's competitors having seen the success Elitegroup had enjoyed in Europe began the assault on the UK market, by setting up shop, whilst others appointed distributors and the rest as they say is history. Elitegroup began to feel the squeeze as prices of motherboards began to drop leaving no room for high quality innovative products at a price that consumers did not want to pay. Elitegroup found itself in a market place that demanded value for money motherboards coupled with quality components. In late 1998/9 Elitegroup merged with PC Chips Group of Companies and remains today as part of the group, supplying motherboard solutions to major O.E.M customers such as Compaq. The K7VZM is the first motherboard we have seen from Elitegroup after it's first labs appearance some six months ago.

How we carried out our tests

Our objective was to test the performance, implementation, stability, and compatibility of the KT7-Raid Motherboard. Additionally, we wanted to compare our results with the 1.1GHz review we recently carried out. We have also published a comparative 1GHz processor results we obtained from the KT7. To achieve our objective, we used 3DMARK 2000, Content Creation Winstone 2000 and BAPCo's SYSmark 2000.

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