Abit is back in the game

I'm pretty anxious to see the results from Fugger too - I still use my IC7-Max 3 and NF7-s 2.0 daily. Being an old fan of ABIT, I'd like to see them put something good together before I jump into a new Core2 box.

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Originally Posted by tictac

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6.1GHz
http://hyem.org/unordinary/index.php...7&topic=1548.0

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looks nice! With auto-overclocking????

ABIT its Back man !! I ll waiting this update.

Will there be conroe support for the Aw8d MAx ?

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Originally Posted by Xptweaker

Will there be conroe support for the Aw8d MAx ?

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NO
there will be conroe support for AW9D MAX and AW9D :D

but the problem is that the AW9D MAX and AW9D sucks ^^ only 1 pci slot

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Originally Posted by hicookie

i'd buy AW9-MAX, looks pretty good mobo
interesting, it's has the front pannel, and a specially button for "clean bios"

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any more news on this one it looks pretty sick

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Originally Posted by Xptweaker

but the problem is that the AW9D MAX and AW9D sucks ^^ only 1 pci slot

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:p: I will never use sli, and 1 pci slot is ok for me

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Originally Posted by Gun_Strife

any more news on this one it looks pretty sick

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gets news from abit's pm, AW9-max will release within 2weeks, he told me, maybe this week, if have not any problem.:D

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Originally Posted by Xptweaker

but the problem is that the AW9D MAX and AW9D sucks ^^ only 1 pci slot

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How about PCI sucks?

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Originally Posted by hicookie

gets news from abit's pm, AW9-max will release within 2weeks, he told me, maybe this week, if have not any problem.:D

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ooooooooooooooooo:cool:
that sounds good

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Originally Posted by kiner

:p: I will never use sli, and 1 pci slot is ok for me

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Out in the country dial-up is all i can get outside of satellite so i need one PCI slot for a 56k modem and then i have my X-Fi which takes a PCI slot and then if i ever wanted to add something else like a TV Tuner then i would need another PCI slot unless i found one that was PCI-E. At this stage a motherboard needs no less then two PCI slots until there has been more time for manufacturers to transition to PCI-E.

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Originally Posted by burningrave101

Out in the country dial-up is all i can get outside of satellite so i need one PCI slot for a 56k modem and then i have my X-Fi which takes a PCI slot and then if i ever wanted to add something else like a TV Tuner then i would need another PCI slot unless i found one that was PCI-E. At this stage a motherboard needs no less then two PCI slots until there has been more time for manufacturers to transition to PCI-E.

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You can just buy a 56k external modem and route the network cable to your computer. It's senseless limiting your motherboard choice for the sake of what i guess would be about $5.

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Originally Posted by hicookie

gets news from abit's pm, AW9-max will release within 2weeks, he told me, maybe this week, if have not any problem.

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:woot: prefect timing for me and I hope that FUGGER's review of it goes well, now I just got to pray the UK gets them soon and prices them correctly. :toast:

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Originally Posted by melymel2789

You can just buy a 56k external modem and route the network cable to your computer. It's senseless limiting your motherboard choice for the sake of what i guess would be about $5.

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Most external modems are junk, especially the cheap ones. That's not saying much for a 56k modem but i have to have something that is somewhat reliable.

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Originally Posted by mikeguava

looks nice! With auto-overclocking????

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yeah.... they used ABIT uGuru software to pass 6ghz :toast:

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Originally Posted by Xptweaker

but the problem is that the AW9D MAX and AW9D sucks ^^ only 1 pci slot

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Why, AW8D has more...? ;)

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Originally Posted by fhpchris

How about PCI sucks?

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i think most people would like to use the sound they own at the same time as xfire/sli. :stick:

Come on abit, im rooting for you! :banana:

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Originally Posted by burningrave101

Yeah but look at the kind of the overclock they got with the Gigabyte DQ6 and the other boards they've tested. They highest they've gotten was with the Asus P5W DH and that was like barely over 400MHz. There are plenty of people here on the board hitting 450MHz+ FSB and i think the Abit AB9 Pro will be one of them doing it as soon as more people get the board. Anandtech was probably limited by the settings they were using in the BIOS or the multipliers of these Conroe processors. People are having trouble getting over 400MHz FSB with the E6600/E6700 multipliers. We may need some form of enhanced cooling above stock for the Northbridge though when trying to hit 450MHz+.

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According to Gary Key, Anandtech stopped getting their boards directly from manufacturers after the problems with the review of Asus A8R32-MVP. Many sites including Anandtech were slated for not picking up on a gaming freeze issue. Gary told me that boards were now supplied from retailors, to avoid any kind of cherry picking. That's why you are seeing mediocre performance in comparison to some of the results here, for the record we already know that not all boards of the same model overclock to the same level. The Asus Conroe supporting board proves this.

regards
Raja

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Originally Posted by 3NZ0

i think most people would like to use the sound they own at the same time as xfire/sli. :stick:

Come on abit, im rooting for you! :banana:

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i agree completely, this will influence my decision big time

Hi,


I assume none of the guys here have any review samples of the AW9D Max yet, otherwise we would have an idea how well it should overclock..

Most of the current Crossfire supporting boards are showing inconsistency over 400fsb, especially without hard mods.

I would love a board that can hit 450fsb consistently with Crossfire and Raid 0 running at the same time.

regards
Raja

hey tictac have you heard of any new bios's coming out anytime soon to address proper timings set in the bios. a guy over at ocforums said that when in bios timings set to 4-4-4-12 would actually be 4-4-4-10. this was a issue with the lg-81 mobo i have until about the last bios release for it i think.

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Originally Posted by raju

Hi,


I assume none of the guys here have any review samples of the AW9D Max yet, otherwise we would have an idea how well it should overclock..

Most of the current Crossfire supporting boards are showing inconsistency over 400fsb, especially without hard mods.

I would love a board that can hit 450fsb consistently with Crossfire and Raid 0 running at the same time.

regards
Raja

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Wait for RD600/SB650 maybe... http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/ati/rd600/g1.htm

Bump.

Any updates?

ABIT ftw:woot:

I've been testing out this Abit AB9 Pro tonight and it definitely needs another BIOS update. Serios memory related issues. I can't get both sticks of this OCZ PC2-6400 XTC Platinum to run together in dual channel. It just boots to a black screen and hangs. I got it to work with just one stick though. BIOS detected voltage at 1.8v but i changed that to 2.1v and that's not the problem. Seems this board has issues with DDR2 800 anways. I'm in windows now and it works alright at stock speeds but it wont let me overclock this E6300. The memory will run at 2:3 400MHz at default but i switch to 1:1 and try a FSB of like 320MHz or something and its unstable in Windows. Looks like more then just one or two issues with this board at the moment but hopefully a BIOS update will fix them real soon and i'll post a thread with overclocking results once i can actually do something with this board.

I installed my first TT Big Typhoon on this thing today and i was a little freaked at the fact i think i warped the top of the motherboard around the socket area just a little bit with tightening the bolts down to the board lol. I guess it wont hurt anything. Seems to be working fine in that regard anyways.