The Abit AW8-MAX, why the bad rep?

[cupholder2.0]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127209

130 dollars shipped, i955x chipset, external sound card (PCI-E 1x), good OC features etc


User reviews on newegg say its a great board.


Look at these site reviews

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODEx

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=251&num=1

http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=713&cid=3


They all say very good board and give it some award. But on forums I hear many people now days saying abit sucks and that they will never buy another Abit board, why is this? Back in the P4C days they were great, what happened? Right now I downgraded a D955XBK to a D945GPT (old board died :() and I cant stand the OC ability of the i945 board...so if the abit is good I will upgrade, good idea?

[greenwar]

Yeah I want to know the answer to this as well. I just bought a AW8 and waiting to get a cpu to put it to use. Why the bad name?

[cupholder2.0]

Yeah, I really want to order this but just dont want to get something which sucks. But this deal rocks, greenwar did you get it from newegg and did you get the MAX?

[greenwar]

Yeah, I really want to order this but just dont want to get something which sucks. But this deal rocks, greenwar did you get it from newegg and did you get the MAX?

No I got mine from Tigerdirect. :) They had the Aw8 - regular version for sale at $88 shipped. I just picked it up. I just got it today but didnt put it to use yet.

[kyleslater]

Abit was the best for overclocking but they lost interest for a few months there. They are going back at it though now. I really don't know which one is the best but I prefer Asus myself.

[[XC]Atomicpineapple]

eva2000 is reporting problems obtaining high bus speeds (Anything over 240MHz IIRC). Theres is also a hardware problem with the board (according to a reply I have from Abit UK) that stops it POSTing over 170MHz bus speed with a 133MHz bus CPU (a Pentium D 805 in this case). I now have my 805 running at 4GHz (200x20) on an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe. Also their USA tech support SUCKS big time.

[cupholder2.0]

No I got mine from Tigerdirect. :) They had the Aw8 - regular version for sale at $88 shipped. I just picked it up. I just got it today but didnt put it to use yet.


wow 88 shipped? Very nice. I cant find it on their site anymore :(, can you give link?

[cupholder2.0]

eva2000 is reporting problems obtaining high bus speeds (Anything over 240MHz IIRC). Theres is also a hardware problem with the board (according to a reply I have from Abit UK) that stops it POSTing over 170MHz bus speed with a 133MHz bus CPU (a Pentium D 805 in this case). I now have my 805 running at 4GHz (200x20) on an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe. Also their USA tech support SUCKS big time.


Are these overclocking problems widespread or just on a few you have seen?

[eva2000]

eva2000 is reporting problems obtaining high bus speeds (Anything over 240MHz IIRC). Theres is also a hardware problem with the board (according to a reply I have from Abit UK) that stops it POSTing over 170MHz bus speed with a 133MHz bus CPU (a Pentium D 805 in this case). I now have my 805 running at 4GHz (200x20) on an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe. Also their USA tech support SUCKS big time.
Actually it could be my 955XE and not the board itself that has a problem.. won't know until i get another cpu to test to confirm it

[cupholder2.0]

http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=2540

Evas thread, looks pretty decent if you ask me, and is actually very good for its price. Eva how is this things external sound?


Your 4.8 Ghz oc looks pretty nice

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=88314

[Fatal]

I bought an Abit AW8 regular for 49 shipped.. So far its ok... It doesnt support 65nm / DC without the newest bios... umm its VERY picky over ram, and especially timings, my rig specs:

Intel 920
OCZ Gold 667 (the non-XTC)
Abit AW8

And I run 4-3-3-8 @ 712, 4-3-3-12 doesnt even work, that fails prime... its realllllly weird. I also had to reformat my hardrive since switching from an ASUS P5P800SE, to an AW8 couldnt boot windows at all, it said it has a corupted file, so i had to load the HD on an asus board, and get everything off of it


Its good once you figure out what it likes, but its hard to setup

[greenwar]

Tigerdirect deal is over. Like other's mentioned, its probably a good idea to stick to Asus for 945P and 955X chipset mobos. I currently own both p5ld2(regular) and P5WD2-Premium. Both motherboard are great. I am not an extreme overclocker and both my mobos are running below 300fsb.

[cupholder2.0]

I bought an Abit AW8 regular for 49 shipped.. So far its ok... It doesnt support 65nm / DC without the newest bios... umm its VERY picky over ram, and especially timings, my rig specs:

Intel 920
OCZ Gold 667 (the non-XTC)
Abit AW8

And I run 4-3-3-8 @ 712, 4-3-3-12 doesnt even work, that fails prime... its realllllly weird. I also had to reformat my hardrive since switching from an ASUS P5P800SE, to an AW8 couldnt boot windows at all, it said it has a corupted file, so i had to load the HD on an asus board, and get everything off of it


Its good once you figure out what it likes, but its hard to setup


Its normal to have to format windows after you switch Motherboards, when the motherboard changes so do all the parts on the system and the old drivers may keep the system from booting into windows. (Had this happen with a couple of my boards). Anyway where in the world did you get a normal AW8 for 49 shipped?


Anyway I changed my mind about buying the normal AW8 or Max, Im looking at the AW8D, this one is said to support conroe (i975) and is much more stable and does good OCs.

Link: http://www.chip.co.id/forum/showthread.php?t=28949