[UPDATE]abit AW9D-MAX first result

[Nightprowler_77]

Can`t wait for more results

[coolaler]

Can`t wait for more results

Waiting for Wang win the game tomorrow

[gelatinousfury]

Looking very forward to seeing this review, looks good so far

[dinos22]

450 is a great start

[AnjinSan1966]

450 is a great start

Hell yea way better then a certain mobo at 325

[Raiden Zero]

Oh man, this board looks f*****g hot

if it clocks as good as p5w dh/p5wd2g-ws pro i'll definitely buy one ...or two =)

raiden

[3NZ0]

good start, lets hope it stays like this.

Abit's got a good comeback board at last!

[gmod]

Probably one of the worst layouts on intel yet. Figures Abit would screw something up on product with some potential...

[stream3]

i want to see the tuniq tower on that bad boy!

[dutchman.pt]

Seems to be a very good board, even better than the P5W-DH but that is a thing that we only have shure after they hit the market and proof some results.

[fhpchris]

Hell yea way better then a certain mobo at 325

Yes, how does Abit make a board that does 450 and DFI makes a board that does 325! ROFL!

[Nephilim]

Yes, how does Abit make a board that does 450 and DFI makes a board that does 325! ROFL!

Nforce4 for Intel... nuff said.

Nice to see Abit having a board which looks good, and seems decently overclockable.

I'm just hoping there are no major bugs in the BIOS, will probably wait for others to try this one first.

Prefer the DFI 590 IE layout much more though, but I suppose that's a personal choice.

[JayG30]

I REALLY REALLY hope Abit makes this happen. It's always good to see one of your favorite manufacturers come back from the dead. And so far this looks like it could be a board that really gives them some hope.

Things I'm liking about this board:
-FSB looks GREAT!
-Multi-GPU!
-Color scheme!
-Power & Reset button on motherboard is a great idea! So is the temp readout.
-Looks like they actually have a good heatpipe design with good contact (unlike Asus ).
-Overall decent layout.

Things I'm not so fond of:
-The SATA placement. What the *#@^! Am I seeing this right...the 4 next to the southbridge is fine, but why place 2 over the floppy drive in the bottom middle of the board? That just makes no sense to me. There is clearly enough room on that board that they did not have to place them there and could have them placed together like in other boards. I'd like an explanation on this. And I'm sure the one behind the CPU is the same as other curernt board for some external drive right?
-Why do we need that ATX 4-pin plug on the motherboard. I guess it's no big deal but it seems like a waste of space and resources. Or am I missing something here? I'm guessing there thought was that someone would use this to hook up a fan or something??? I'd much rather have a cleaner and smaller standard 3-pin. The ONLY use I can see for this is if it was on the other side of the motherboard and allowed me to hook up an IDE/Floppy without running a cable from the PSU. But even then it's only an advantage in the sense of making cable management easier.

Also I guess some people are not to thrilled about the PCI placement for there sound cards. I can understand this and looking at the board there probably is an easy way they could have fixed this. But to me there are more important things here then that. Besides isn't there better solutions to your audio needs. Also whats the info on this boards on-board audio?

All in all I'm very happy with what I see. This might end up being the next board I buy.


On a side note. Coolaler where do you get these...

I'm a huge Yankees fan and I've never seen these. There awesome and I want some.

[kiner]

-Why do we need that ATX 4-pin plug on the motherboard. I guess it's no big deal but it seems like a waste of space and resources. Or am I missing something here? I'm guessing there thought was that someone would use this to hook up a fan or something??? I'd much rather have a cleaner and smaller standard 3-pin.

That provides more power to PCI-E 16x ...

[JayG30]

That provides more power to PCI-E 16x ...

I guess you culd use that 4-pin to hook up your GPU's. Didn't even think of that. I wonder how efficent it is to do that. Drawbacks and such. I'm a firm believer in always running power from the source through a dedicated line. Running it trough the motherboard just seems...strange. I'd like more info on this.

[kiner]

I guess you culd use that 4-pin to hook up your GPU's. Didn't even think of that. I wonder how efficent it is to do that. Drawbacks and such. I'm a firm believer in always running power from the source through a dedicated line. Running it trough the motherboard just seems...strange. I'd like more info on this.

heee... I meant that more power to "PCI-e 16x" not to "GPU"...

then you can oc the frequency of dual PCI-e 16x more easily .. ?

anyway, let's see what coolaler can show us after Tiger wang beat Tiger ...

[axlros75]

Anyone knows where is possible to buy or pre-order this fantastic AW9D board?

Thank you

[death metal]

Waiting for Wang win the game tomorrow

COOLALER, is that you?

[JayG30]

COOLALER, is that you?

LOL are you serious???

Thats one of the yankee pitchers. A newer guy. His name is right under his feet.

[M.Beier]

When is the game? - Im not a huge baseball fan, so I frankly have no idea when they play, I just wanna slap him once the match's over so he'll start working on giving one hell of a good review

COOLALER, is that you?

Yeah Coolaler is Wang Chlen-Ming, didnt you know that?

[CeleronS]

delete it

[alpha0ne]

Thanks for the review coolaler, always appreciated