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Monday, December 26, 2005
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The ABIT AN8 SLI is a very solid mainboard making use of the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset. The nForce4 SLI chipset is the top of the line for mainboards powering the AMD Athlon 64 processor platform. ABIT clearly has a top of the line performance board at an entry level price. This board looks great and offers excellent performance for the money. If you do not need 2 SATA controllers, or dual Gigabyte LAN and other features rarely used, then why eat up the system resources using them?
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Saturday, December 3, 2005
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ABIT's AN8-SLI offers everything you expect in the form of ABIT's uGuru overclocking and system monitoring chip, ABIT Q-OTES with heatpipe technology, ABIT AudioMAX daughter card and ABIT CPU ThermalGuard technology. As the name depicts the AN8-SLI is based on NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI chipset with two PCI-Express x16 slots (in either 16x1 or 8x8 configuration), SATA2 RAID, IEEE 1394a Firewire and Gigabit Ethernet...
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Sunday, September 18, 2005
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The ABIT NI8 SLI is the first nForce4 SLI Intel Edition motherboard from ABIT to hit the streets and we are duly impressed with its performance, cooling and stability. We've even brought in the Guru Clock to see how it stacks up as a μGuru extension. Read on...
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Thursday, September 1, 2005
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The Abit AN8-Ultra is a good mix of quality features and overclocking ability. The layout is very good, it has silent cooling, and overclocks with the best of them. I am awarding the AN8-Ultra the Gold Award for excellence in computing hardware. This is a worthy Xtreme device...
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Friday, August 26, 2005
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It may not be the best featured board on the market but taking everything into account, the ABIT NI8 SLI is good value for money. If you pair it up with a low noise CPU cooler and a couple of the quieter SLI cards you could have yourself a high-end gaming rig that doesn't sound like an aeroplane...
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Friday, August 19, 2005
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AN8-SLI board is quite bare compared to today's standards; it really only has a Gigabit NIC, 7.1 channel audio controller, IEEE 1394, a Port 80 diagnostics card... not much outside of what the nForce 4 SLI chipset offers. Along with twin PCI Express X16 slots that support SLI, the ABIT's Q-OTES heatpipe chipset cooling solution, and the standard assortment of IDE and SATA ports, the AN8-SLI offers up two open PCI slots and two PCI Express x1 slots for future expansion..
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Friday, August 12, 2005
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The ABIT AN8 Ultra is the first motherboard with a heatpipe cooled chipset to arrive in the TrustedReviews office and on the whole it's an impressive package. If you want a fast machine that doesn't sound like an aeroplane when it's running, the AN8 is definitely worth a look...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
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The Fatal1ty AN8-SLI is targeted purely towards the enthusiast who likes to make a good looking system and then overclock the hell out it and Abit surely succeeds with that. The packaging is also excellent with lots of extras included in the box such as the uGuru panel and the SLI cooling fan- although we do hope that Abit takes care of the multiple cables coming out of the uGuru panel and replaces them with one. It would also be good if Abit thinks about increasing the space between the two PCI-E x16 slots for their upcoming multi GPU boards and keeps all slots/conenctors black or red...
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Saturday, August 6, 2005
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The ABIT Fatal1ty X800 XL 512MB graphics card, then, is the best X800 XL 512MB-class card we've come across thus far. The instrinsic problem with it and other X800 XL 512MB cards is a comparative lack of performance per pound, so die-hard gamers would probably do better looking elsewhere, perhaps to a card that's likely to be launched soon...
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Thursday, August 4, 2005
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While the Radeon 9550 VPU may be getting long in the tooth compared to the latest generation of graphics cards, it has been one of the bestsellers in the budget AGP segment. To up the stakes further, ABIT has done wonders with the R9550-256Guru. However, to put things in perspective, even in Turbo mode, this card will barely challenge the Radeon 9600 PRO. Although the overall overclocking performance was noteworthy, with results that surpassed the Radeon 9600 XT, this margin is not something that can be duplicated across all R9550-256Guru cards, not to mention the risk factor involved...
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Friday, July 15, 2005
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The Abit Fatal1ty AA8XE is possibly the modder and gamers' ultimate board, if they're set on an Intel solution. For me though, the Fatal1ty branding isn't enough of a draw, and I'd probably look elsewhere in Abit's catalogue...
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Friday, July 8, 2005
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ABIT rekindles some of the old magic with their latest AL8 motherboard based on Intel's 945P Express chipset. The AL8 scores with a feature set that takes full advantage of the PCI Express architecture and turns out to be a good number cruncher...
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At first glance, the ABIT AW8-MAX appears to have everything that an enthusiast could ever want in an Intel motherboard. Powered by the new Intel i955X chipset, the AW8-MAX comes with support for dual-core Pentium 4 processors, 8GB of dual-channel DDR2 memory up to the 667MHz speed grade and PCIe X16. The new ICH7R south bridge now supports SATA II 3Gbps transfers, Intel Matrix RAID and SATA AHCI for command queuing and hot plugging capabilities...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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ABIT isn't pulling any punches with the Fatal1ty line of motherboards. It is going squarely for the enthusiast who values performance and overclocking potential above all else. That's why, ABIT says, the Fatal1ty AN8 SLI isn't rammed with an extraordinary feature count. Rather, the design budget has been spent on developing a S939 motherboard that should offer greater tweaking/overclocking potential than any other.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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Time and time again, ABIT has proven to us why they are the enthusiasts' motherboard manufacturer of choice. The Fatal1ty series has showed us that once again. The Fatal1ty AN8 nForce4 Ultra board is another evidence of ABIT's continous commitment in producing boards that can go the limits. This board performed like magic in the 2 weeks that we tested it. Both at stock and overclocked settings, the Fatal1ty AN8 never showed any sign of weakness. Stability wise, this board has exceeded our expectations. Its performance against the more expensive Intel counterpart is definitely impressive. Overclocked, well, the results will speak for itself.
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