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ABIT AW9D-MAX 975X Express Motherboard Review

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We recently took a look at the excellent Asus Striker Extreme 680i motherboard and put it up against this board, so it's interesting to see another take on the Abit AW9D. If it wasn't for the Striker and NVIDIA's 680i chipset, this would be a strong contender for any system and a decent solution for Core 2 and Quad Core chips. We'll be featuring our own review of this board soon and apart from a few design niggles, we think it's a good buy for those who don't need a SLI solution.

The ABIT AW9D-MAX motherboard is based on Intel's top of the line 975X Express and ICH7R chipsets, packs in quite a lot to get excited about. This high end desktop chipset enables the AW9D-MAX to accommodate 533/800/1066MHz FSB Intel socket 775 processors. The four memory slots can be filled with up to 8GB of unbuffered ECC/non-ECC DDR2-800 RAM. Standard equipment on the motherboard includes dual PCI Express based GigABIT network cards, ABIT's AudioMAX High Definition 7.1 channel audio controller, eight 3GB/s SATAII channels, Firewire IEEE 1394a and two additional two port Silicon Image SiI3132 Serial ATA II/RAID controllers.

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