Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., October 29 - ABIT's MAX
Series of motherboards continues to impress hardware enthusiasts around the
world with maximum features and stunning performance. The folks at hardware
website Naked Review took a close look at the new IT7-MAX2 motherboard, and were
very impressed.
The review was quick to notice the standard Serial ATA support, enhanced with
the bundled Serillel converter: "One difference is the MAX board had 4 raid
connectors on it. The MAX2 replaces two of these connectors with Serial ATA or
SATA. The new SATA standard is the next evolution in IDE hard drives. The
interface allows for greater bandwidth and smaller cables. The initial serial
ATA standard can operate at up to 1.5Gpbs...It's nice to see that motherboard
companies are putting these connections on the motherboards though and in the
end it will help give this board a long life. You also get an adaptor for your
normal IDE drives so that you can use it with the SATA connectors. This is a
nice touch, and from what I've been reading an uncommon accessory."
Can a board have both strong features and performance? Naked Review thinks so:
"One of the great things about the MAX series of motherboards from Abit is all
the features. Without a doubt this board has more connections and features than
any other board. And as we saw from the benchmarks and overclockability of the
board, it is still a great performer. The Media XP is designed to bring some of
those features to the front of your case. The Media XP has 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1
Firewire 1394 IEEE port, 1 SPDIF out, as well as card readers for Compact Flash,
Panasonic SD and Sony Memory Stick."
Here's their conclusion: "Well, what can I say? This board is as good a
performer as the original MAX and with the additional features is only better. I
can find nothing wrong with it. The maximum overclock I was able to obtain with
this board was due to the memory being at its limit. The board was ready to go
further and that is very important if you think about it. Motherboards should
not be your limiting factor and in my opinion should be able to allow your
components to max out. This board does just that... I'm sitting here trying to
find the words to conclude this article and my mind keeps wondering to my
original MAX board sitting in its box. I really like both these boards so much,
I think I'm going to go out and buy another Intel P4 so I can put the MAX back
to work. However, the MAX2 will remain in my main system…overclocked to the
MAX!"
For the full verdict and review, click here:
http://www.thenakedreview.com/index.php?p=showarticle&id=85&showpage=1
For more information on the IT7-MAX2,
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here.
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