i975 for fiddlers, overclockers
DURING COMPUTEX, we told you about the
new Abit and it's three lines of boards, standard, Fatality and Max. The first of the new Max boards has just just hit the market, overclockers start your engines.
The Max line is split from the Fatality boards, with Max aimed at the high-end stable overclocking set and Fatality at the gamers.
The first board in the Max line is the i975 based
AW9D-MAX.
It differs from the normal AW9D in a few way, the most noticeable are the dual, rather than single heat pipes, and the added ports. Additionally, it has three more SATA ports and 1 e-SATA port as well. Other than that, the boards are fairly similar, although I would bet on a much higher overclocking on the -MAX board due to those little extra touches that are so hard to define. In any case, it looks like the new Abit is going for the top of the OCing world. With its first post-Computex offering of a quad-core-ready i975 board, things are looking up already.
The INQuirer
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