KV8-MAX3 receives Recommended Product Award From PC Stats

April 1st, 2004 - One of the largest and most frequented hardware sites PC Satats has recently reviewed the ABIT AMD Socket 939 motherboard, the KV8-MAX3. Here are the highlights:

"ABIT is a fan favorite of many computer enthusiasts, and has been for a long time since the company began openly embracing overclocking. To further that agenda, ABIT have introduced several enthusiast friendly features, designed to careful notch out a "performance oriented niche," and ensure market survival."

PC Stats really liked the layout of the KV8-MAX3 "The layout of the ABIT KV8-MAX3 is nicely done, with the main ATX and ATX12V line placed together off to the left of the CPU socket. Another thing I really like is that the first PCI slot is spaced 30mm away from the AGP slot, so there is plenty of room for large third party coolers, or even one of those two-PCI slot nVidia Geforce FX heatsinks. Serial ATA is the future of storage, and the ABIT KV8-MAX3 features an additional four channel Silicon Image Sil3114CT176 Serial ATA/RAID controller for a total of six SATA headers."

Let's hear how PC Stats has to say about μGuru and OTES "Ask any enthusiast about their MOSFETs and you'll no doubt hear that they run hot. In fact it's common for MOSFET to run 70+ degrees Celsius, creating a large hot spot in the PC. To help deal with this situation, and hopefully decrease internal case temperatures, ABIT equip the MAX3-series with proprietory OTES cooling system. ABIT have been promoting µGuru technology for months now, and so you should already be familiar with it. µGuru is actually very similar to MSI's CoreCell but µGuru goes a bit further in the overclocking options it offers. Essentially, for anyone scratching their head right now, µGuru allows you to overclock your system within WindowsXP, and also gives you the ability to change the voltages too!"

Conclusion "ABIT are one of the few manufacturers that openly embrace the enthusiast community, and the ABIT KV8-MAX3 is a fine example of ABIT engineering. Performance of the ABIT KV8-MAX3 motherboard was very good but that's to be expected from an Athlon64 based system. In all the tests the ABIT KV8-MAX3 constantly fought for top spot among all the stock systems, and the was a decent overclocker too. If you're thinking about putting together a new socket 754 Athlon64 rig, make sure you check out the ABIT KV8-MAX3 motherboard. I'm positive it'll keep you happy no matter what you do!"

For the full review go here:http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=922&page=1



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