!UPDATE! abit AW9D-Max (retail) arrived

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Originally Posted by kenofstephen

what a dumb reply! :fact:

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Maybe and maybe not... First of all his statement was 4 days ago and early in the thread, up to that point I didn't see anything that impressed... Unless you're an Abit fanboy it's a little premature to get too excited 'bout this board yet... It's been quite awhile since Abit released a "Great Board" so the jury is still out, it's hardy time to attack the naysayers... :stick:

It's clear that Fugger and hipro5 can make it dance, let's see what it does in the hands of the less talented or experienced! :)

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Originally Posted by situman

got in! hate you guys!

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:hehe:.... back on ABIT agian? Post your result when you got it set up :toast:

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Originally Posted by Lestat

man that price wow NICE price that makes it worth buying if they can make it do what they designed it to do..

dang im tempted to drop the ball now but you know when they are all gone new egg will jack the price to $300

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Eggy might not. This isn't the Abit of old. I'm sure htey know how much other retailers like ZZF and Excaliberpc is selling them for. They could have easily sold it for 30 to 40 dollars more but they might not sell out since they seem to have a relatively big stock. The Abit of old would have commanded 300 dollars, but not these days. Well regardless, I got on the deal right now.

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Originally Posted by G H Z

Hopefully they don't jack the price. Hey looky what comes with this board, an ATI graphics bridge.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...bit-bridge.jpg

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WOW! heh... that's pretty cool... a fun keep-sake if nothing else. :)

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Originally Posted by tictac

:hehe:.... back on ABIT agian? Post your result when you got it set up :toast:

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Still got a bad taste in my mouth from the AN8 fiasco. If this board is at the level of the AN8, this will be my last Abit board EVER. BTW, when are you going to work your magic on this board?

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Originally Posted by G H Z

Hopefully they don't jack the price. Hey looky what comes with this board, an ATI graphics bridge.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...bit-bridge.jpg

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Wow.... dual graphic link? What does it use for? Crossfire or SLI the graphics ? :hehe:

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Originally Posted by pcdoc1

Maybe and maybe not... First of all his statement was 4 days ago and early in the thread, up to that point I didn't see anything that impressed... Unless you're an Abit fanboy it's a little premature to get too excited 'bout this board yet... It's been quite awhile since Abit released a "Great Board" so the jury is still out, it's hardy time to attack the naysayers... :stick:

It's clear that Fugger and hipro5 can make it dance, let's see what it does in the hands of the less talented or experienced! :)

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No matter the skill and ability of the motherboard user, I still think
it will be in the company of the best Conroe motherboards available until C55's are released.

Hopefully everyone will start contributing their results in an Official thread. :toast:

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Originally Posted by situman

Eggy might not. This isn't the Abit of old. I'm sure htey know how much other retailers like ZZF and Excaliberpc is selling them for. They could have easily sold it for 30 to 40 dollars more but they might not sell out since they seem to have a relatively big stock. The Abit of old would have commanded 300 dollars, but not these days. Well regardless, I got on the deal right now.

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Me too. 9:49 PM, Monday night... Just got an email from egg, but no tracking.
Hopefully, I got on board before they sold out. I'll know tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by tictac

Wow.... dual graphic link? What does it use for? Crossfire or SLI the graphics ? :hehe:

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Maybe Abit knows something that we don't. SLI licensed to Intel? One can only hope :p:

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Originally Posted by derektm

Maybe Abit knows something that we don't. SLI licensed to Intel? One can only hope :p:

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Something to do with this?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=99109

very informative thread, thanks for all your hard work. wish i had some new toy to play with :(

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Originally Posted by derektm

Maybe Abit knows something that we don't. SLI licensed to Intel? One can only hope :p:

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So it is the SLI bridge? There must be a reason they adding it in... :hehe:

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Originally Posted by pcdoc1

Maybe and maybe not... First of all his statement was 4 days ago and early in the thread, up to that point I didn't see anything that impressed... Unless you're an Abit fanboy it's a little premature to get too excited 'bout this board yet... It's been quite awhile since Abit released a "Great Board" so the jury is still out, it's hardy time to attack the naysayers... :stick:

It's clear that Fugger and hipro5 can make it dance, let's see what it does in the hands of the less talented or experienced! :)

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not really, coz on 8th Sept. Gary Key released his review on Anandtech.:fact:

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Originally Posted by kenofstephen

not really, coz on 8th Sept. Gary Key released his review on Anandtech.:fact:

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Whoa, an AT review.... That's fine, say good night...

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Originally Posted by pcdoc1

Whoa, an AT review.... That's fine, say good night...

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:rofl: yup, i guess AT is the standard review to judge mb's by nowadays:rolleyes:

I see in voltage monitoring in bios no V DROP !! I think this board very rock solid.

Asus sends ( at least sent ) SLI bridge with P5WD2 ( non -E ) so its not really a new thing.

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Originally Posted by tictac

So it is the SLI bridge? There must be a reason they adding it in... :hehe:

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Tons of people already run SLI on 975x, its not hard to do at all.

And for the records: My XFX Geforce 7900GX2 runs fine too.

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Originally Posted by situman

Still got a bad taste in my mouth from the AN8 fiasco. If this board is at the level of the AN8, this will be my last Abit board EVER. BTW, when are you going to work your magic on this board?

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mine worked great?

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Originally Posted by tvdang7

mine worked great?

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Congratulations, you're one of the few.

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Originally Posted by Revv23

Tons of people already run SLI on 975x, its not hard to do at all.

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Not for SLI, it's for CF ;)

I finally sourced a few of these today as well. I tell you, getting some of these decent Core 2 Duo mobos has almost been as hard as getting the chips themselves originally :D

My order shipped today from Newegg. They're next eta is September 22nd & they've also upped their price. Go figure:rolleyes: Seems Zipzoomfly has lowered their price to match yesterdays Newegg price.

Mine shipped too about an hour ago, refused shipping on the p5wdh & atx 4pin ext about 45 minutes before the egg said the abit shipped, hopefully they didn't kick around my Abit lol.