Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., November 6, 2003 - ABIT's new
IC7-MAX3 has been claiming award after award since its introduction, and
it's not hard to see why. The latest comes from AMD3D.com, and after putting
the board through the paces, the reviewer found the board to deliver the
goods and more, awarding it with their Editor's Choice award!
The IC7-MAX3 is the latest in ABIT's breakthrough MAX motherboard series,
and with that, includes a combination of cutting-edge features and blazing
performance that just isn't found on other motherboards: "ABIT
has again excelled themselves here, producing such a top class motherboard.
This motherboard is truly great, provides all the latest features and
more! These include: SATA, RAID, on-board 5.1 audio with Optical SPDIF
out, Firewire, Unique OTES cooling system to cool the bit of the motherboard
that gets stressed while overclocking - the FET's - and it also has ABIT's
Secure IDE feature. This is a method of hardware encryption of the data
on your hard drive!"
But when users think ABIT, they think performance without compromise.
How did the IC7-MAX3 fare at AMD3D.com? "ABIT IC7-MAX3 utilises
the i875 Chipset (Canterwood), providing great memory bandwidth and stability.
It is very stable when overclocked and not overclocked, as you saw from
the benchmarks I had an Intel Pentium 4 overclocked @ 3.32 with stock
voltages and it was running rock solid stable! The bios has all the overclocking
features you could ever want and it is very easy to use."
The conclusion: "...this is the fastest Intel Pentium 4
Motherboard I have tested to date! ABIT seems to have produced a great
all round board here, it is jam packed with features, very stable and
has very good overclocking potential!"
Final Score: 97% - Editor's Choice
For the full review, go to: http://www.cpu3d.com/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=95&page=1
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