Retail Abit IN9 32X-MAX - Pictures, observations and testing...

[ANP !!!]

Woah.. awesome stuff u got there

[revenant]

yes... YES! this will be the 680i board for me. great images there. I have a TJ09 waiting to slap it into also. whew. and an enermax galaxy 1kw waiting to power it up.

[Johnny Bravo]

Benchies are UP!

[syne_24]

Just a thought...

A few of you have been asking about mounting holes dimensions and what not. I'd like to point out that while I've been benching on air at about 1.6v the temps on the 5 phases has been in the region of 60-70oC. Now while you all may be eager to rip off the heatpipe section You will NOT be able to run the digital VRM naked. It's a simple enough heatsink design to fix this but it will still need to be made and installed before you run you water cooling etc....

I think most people will just cut the heatpipe off the mosfet to get active cooling the the chipset. If that doesnt work out, I'm sure I'll find another way because passive cooling on this is not the answer. IMO they should have at least included a fan with this board, calling it the beast and running passive is not a poor choice. Also from what I noticed, there isnt a 3pin fan header near the chipset, which will be a hassle for guys running chipset cooler. But if you can get those measurement from end to end of the mounting holes I'd be great.

[Xptweaker]

nice Johnny Bravo could you give us temps of the NB with and without fan ?

[\/ENDE][A]

I think most people will just cut the heatpipe off the mosfet to get active cooling the the chipset. If that doesnt work out, I'm sure I'll find another way because passive cooling on this is not the answer. IMO they should have at least included a fan with this board, calling it the beast and running passive is not a poor choice. Also from what I noticed, there isnt a 3pin fan header near the chipset, which will be a hassle for guys running chipset cooler. But if you can get those measurement from end to end of the mounting holes I'd be great.

Here is motherboard diagram showing fan header location...

[JargonGR]

Damn can'r wait till mine arrives next week! Let us know about SLI + Creative Xi-Fi if you can.

[day187]

Well final got it up and running after to installs of windows,

HD TACH
2 x raptors sata1 (8mb cache) Raid 0
windows XP 64

[Speederlander]

Well final got it up and running after to installs of windows,

HD TACH
2 x raptors sata1 (8mb cache) Raid 0
windows XP 64

Hey nice, can you give a SPi 1M and 32M at that 3.6GHz? That gives me a good comparison.

Thanks!

[\/ENDE][A]

Damn can'r wait till mine arrives next week! Let us know about SLI + Creative Xi-Fi if you can.

I will be testing SLI but only with 2 MSI 7900 GT0`S and 2 Leadtek 7900GS, I wont have 8 series cards till new revision comes out.

[\/ENDE][A]

Stock volts are 1.8v for the DDR2 but I suspect that it will not be a problem as your memory will prob not boot at PC8000 at the beginning anyway. Also the board supports nVidia EPP which I *think* cellshock have embedded

My Cellshocks don`t have EPP, they were released before 680 came out, i have been told by Alonso(CellShock staff) that i can RMA for SPD reprogramming. I just don`t like the idea of having to send them from UK to Germany. I`m thinking of leaving them as they are.

[day187]

superpi 1m


superpi 32m

[Speederlander]

superpi 1m


superpi 32m

Thanks!

That's actually snappy all things considered.

[H0RM0NE]

GREAT info Johnny!!!!!!!!!!
Really stellar pics. Great focus, composition, size and color.

Sorry to hear you're having relationship issues...hope they can work themselves out soon.

Finally some real hands on info on the real retail version. Like a lot of us watching this thread, I too am very interested in the performance of this board and appreciate your time and effort getting this info out to us.

Glad to see my wait so far for this board has not been in vain.

Thanks again!!!

@\/ENDE][A

Thx for the MBD diag that helps too...looking forward to your SLI testing results w/ the 7900 cards... keep us posted.

[Johnny Bravo]

Thanks HORMONE yeah we're getting back on track was a rocky week or so tho.

Also thanks to day 187 for providing some RAID results and comparative Spi results too. Now all we need is some SLi action. I'm really tempted to splurge out on some cheap PCI-E cards like 7300GTs

As for the NB cooling there's a fan header right beside the cpu fan header, actually that's the header I use for my NB fan. I'll be exploring the BIOS more in the coming weeks playing with the straps and maybe even starting to map out these "gaps" in the FSB.

its 2am here time for bed !

[vowkilmer]

What is ETA on this board here in the States ?

Looks promising.

[qdemn7]

You will NOT be able to run the digital VRM naked. It's a simple enough heatsink design to fix this but it will still need to be made and installed before you run you water cooling etc....

Hey Johnny, how about this Alphacool waterblock for the VRM? Would that provide enough coverage for cooling?

[Speederlander]

Looks to be in stock here (at least it says so now...):

http://www.fadfusion.com/selection.p...er=10024002962

[sreedx2]

Yes I would also like to know when this board is available in US/Canada ?

thanks


Not many sites seem to have it ?

http://www.fadfusion.com/selection.p...er=10024002962 these guys do not ship outside the USA

[H0RM0NE]

What is ETA on this board here in the States ?

That's the Million dollar question...and Skiman says:

ABIT IN9 32-Max at retail and in stock in the UK. Unexpected release two weeks ahead of what North American suppliers are telling us. Its here its coming, can't wait to get my hands on it!

Hmmm..., two more weeks...I can wait that long. It will give coolaler, Johnny B, Crotale, day187 and the others time to press on with their testing and write them up before I take mine...carry on. We're all counting on you...

[sreedx2]

That's the Million dollar question...that Skiman has answered:



Hmmm..., two more weeks...I can wait that long. It will give coolaler, Johnny B, Crotale, 187 days and others time to press on and write them up before I take off with mine...carry on. We're all counting on you...

duh should have opened my eyes ...thanks cant wait ..

[day187]

Thanks HORMONE yeah we're getting back on track was a rocky week or so tho.

Also thanks to day 187 for providing some RAID results and comparative Spi results too. Now all we need is some SLi action. I'm really tempted to splurge out on some cheap PCI-E cards like 7300GTs

As for the NB cooling there's a fan header right beside the cpu fan header, actually that's the header I use for my NB fan. I'll be exploring the BIOS more in the coming weeks playing with the straps and maybe even starting to map out these "gaps" in the FSB.

its 2am here time for bed !

Thanks Johnny for the info and review, i love this board wish raid was a bit faster, but no problems so far. Just need 8800GTX (no food for a month or 8800GTX)

[Johnny Bravo]

Welll I was feeling good last nite so I went online and got me 2 7600GS cards so SLi testing will happen. Will also be on the look out for a cheap 74GB raptor or maybe a pair of 36GB ones

[Xptweaker]

@ Johnny Bravo

I read somewhere that the temp. of a 8800gtx went up from 55 to 75 degrees because of the change from the aw9d-max to the IN9.
On the IN9 NB was a fan installed ....
Did u recogniced any graphic card temp increase or could u check that

[Motley]

Thanks Johnny for the info and review, i love this board wish raid was a bit faster, but no problems so far. Just need 8800GTX (no food for a month or 8800GTX)

lol @ no food for a month. At $600 for a 8800GTX, I wouldn't eat for 3 months!