The ABIT AN8 32X with its orange colored PCB and its quality of construction, comes in a rather good retail package with all appropriate cables and manuals included. Dual X16 PCI-Express and SLI support, Gigabit LAN, 7.1 CH Audio with two optical/digital connections, double SATA RAID, Dual Channel, are only some of the board's features. Maybe a WireLess LAN or a second onboard LAN are something we would like to see. The Silent Otes fanless cooling, is rather impressive and effective too. We also liked the POST Code Display, something you won't find often, even on the most expensive motherboards and don't forget, the μGuru utility which will help you to easily overclock your system.

The performance of the AN8 32X is good. However, we should mention that the capabilities of this platform, with its two PCI-Express X16 slots, are greater than the demands of current games. In our benchmarks, our CPU, VGA cards and other components, seemed to prefer the AN8 32X and reported better overall performance with it over the MSI K8N Diamond.

This is a motherboard which you can keep for a long time.

The price at the time of this review was US$185 on the e-market which is among the more expensive motherboards.

Pros:

• Dual X16 SLI support
• Great features
• Good Retail Package
• Very Good performance
• Monitor utility from within Windows
• Very good motherboard overclocking capabilities

Cons:

• No Wireless or Second Lan

Like to be fixed

• Maybe a slightly lower price?

Features
Performance
BIOS/Overclocking
Value for money