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Abit Launches AW9D Series

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Today Universal abit launched their much anticipated AW9D and AW9D-MAX motherboards based on the Intel 975X chipset. There has been much anticipation in the industry for this series and as far as looks go, these boards are built to please. The benchmarking has been exceptional in typical abit style and our tweakability and overclocking features have exceeded even our own expectations:


Mark, a bright new star in the abit engineering department, says: "I really like abit's µ Guru overclocking features on this board and playing with the engineering samples I've managed to OC to 470 FSB using a 6800XE Core 2 Duo. The BIOS has plenty of options for adjusting FSB, tweaking voltages and controlling stability. It's truly an amazing overclocking motherboard ... I love it!"

AW9D-MAX

abit AW9D-MAX is the essence of Bushido, the true "way of the warrior". This board is built with only one thing in mind - destroy the competition - no thought, no mind, only perfect results through righteousness: With superior strength in features and mental preparedness, the Righteous path of enlightenment and true domination comes with the AW9D-MAX.

Supporting dual graphic slots, dual Ethernet, 7.1 channel, all solid state capacitors, Dolby Master Studio sound and a host of awesome capabilities. Sheathed within the box; bearing the mark of MAX Righteousness. The Intel 975X "Core 2 Duo" compatible and Quad core ready LGA775 socket motherboard is enhanced with traditional heavy duty armor plated Solid-State capacitors and the deathly quiet patented Silent OTES 2 technology to keep the durable components and chipsets stilled and calmed while the user can rest assured that despite the peaceful experience, the pervading power is omnipresent and ready at hand.

This feature packed Intel "Conroe" capable motherboard has multiple dual graphics options including CrossFire and NVIDIA dual graphics support and flashes in blistering speed an arsenal worthy of any righteous samurai warrior. With the ultimate katana blade, bearing the precision edge to dominate all who come before it, folded many times over, tempered in forges designed to align every fiber and grain of steel to represent the true mind of the Samurai who carries it.

The AW9D-MAX embraces Bushido- "the way of the warrior" to supplicate your desires and give you the pinnacle of abit achievements.

AW9D

The Shadow Warrior: With Stealth and Force to win any campaign.

Living in the shadow of a Max board can be intimidating to say the least. With abit's flagship flying high above you, how can you possibly shine?

The AW9D, a true shadow warrior fights the good fight and comes out trumps. Supporting Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs and sporting dual graphics options, with solid state capacitors in all the essential places; the motherboard exudes true quality. For HDD options, the 4 SATA 3G connectors with RAID 0,1 & 5 give you plenty of scope for expansion and the Silent OTES patented technology shields your way, giving you stealth and reliability. Additionally, the traditional µGuru system is integrated onto the motherboard to give you the precision tools to fine tune your equipment as no other can.

The integrated ethernet controller and typical features such as Firewire headers and USB connectors gives you the options you would expect from our supreme warrior. If you are looking for a good solid, reliable motherboard, then the AW9D is a fantastic choice.

These motherboards will be available soon in a store near you .

For more information on the abit AW9D-MAX motherboard go here: Universal abit AW9D-MAX
For more information on the abit AW9D-MAX motherboard go here: Universal abit AW9D

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Meh, don't really care for the board layout. If you use crossfire then that covers up the one PCI slot and one of the PCI-E x1 slots. Leaving barely enough room for one expansion card.
 

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Now that is more like the old ABIT, glad they coming back strong, hope they will be over espectations, the layount is great and quad core ready.
 
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layout sucks and doesn't even have 2 PCI slots (opne for Physx one for sound card) and the only PCI slot can't be used when Crossfire is used.
 
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http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/18/abit_aw9d/

Abit intros Intel quad-core motherboard


Abit announced its AW9D and AW9D-MAX motherboards which can be used with Intel's current LGA775 processors such as the Pentium D and Core 2 Duo as well as future quad-core versions of the Core 2 Extreme CPU ("Kentsfield"). Both boards are based on Intel's 975X chipset and support Nvidia SLI and ATI Crossfire multi-GPU technologies. The differences between the tow models are very subtle -the AW9D-MAX integrates seven instead of the AW9D 's four SATA ports as well as two PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet ports instead of only one.

Pricing has not been announced.
 
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Hmmm, your right that one PCI slot isn't enough, but that looks like it will be a serious overclocking board. All the FETs are sinked, and it looks like they only used solid caps as opposed to electrolytic caps.

is it a true 16/16 crossfire board?

Nice to see ABIT back on the scene anyway
 

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Must be ATX, I would scrap one of the PCI-E X1's and move the second PCI-E X16 up one, then have 2 PCI slots
 

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then people would complain about not enough space between cards in cf/sli.. i think ultimately abit has to get rid of the stupid floppy connector
 

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Haven't read up on the featureset used, but got to THIS part & liked it well enough:

"abit AW9D-MAX is the essence of Bushido, the true "way of the warrior". This board is built with only one thing in mind – destroy the competition – no thought, no mind, only perfect results through righteousness: With superior strength in features and mental preparedness, the Righteous path of enlightenment and true domination comes with the AW9D-MAX."

:)

* I can relate to that completely - only way to fly!

(Hey - I like a GOOD "marketing spiel" as much as the next guy does!)

APK

P.S.=> Now, to actually read up on what it's got in/on it & over the competition... lol! apk
 
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if you kill the floppy slot then you have a prob with stupid win xp and most peoples raid controller or even s-ata raid drivers
 

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Altium Protel DXP is a PCB design software .. it's definitely not usable for you unless you know how to use and have the correct background.. give a calculator to a 3 year, same problem.

if you guys want to write up suggestions for abit how they can improve their motherboards i'll gladly forward them. they specifically asked for user feedback.
 

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More PCI slots...better layout...don't need 2 PCI-E X1's, maybe it shouldn't be a Crossfire/SLi board, not enough room...
 
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in my eyes a board atm needs a 16x pci-e slot that will work as an 4x and/or as an 1x if you plug the right card in it

when you have 2 graphics installed then you should be able to use 1 pci-e slot and 1 pci slot


something like a creative sound card and a raid controller or whatever


the thing is that todays boards have everything on it but some users need the pci cards

on my setup its a wireless lan card witch is plugges in a pci slot so a sound card wouldnt be a choice for me on this board

clear?
 

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in my eyes a board atm needs a 16x pci-e slot that will work as an 4x and/or as an 1x if you plug the right card in it

I'm fairly sure the way mine's setup WILL do that, as is!

(& it has 2 PCI-e x16 slots, for SLI if necessary)

IIRC, from my brief "scan" of its manual?

It stated that if the 2nd x16 PCI-e slot is not used in SLI, it will use it as an ordinary x4/x1 PCI-e slot with other cards.

APK

P.S.=> This mobo is an ASUS A8N-SLI Premium... apk
 
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