ABIT AA8-DuraMAX receives Editor's Choice Award from Legit Reviews

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., August 27th, 2004 - One of the largest and most frequently visited hardware sites Legit Reviews recently took a look at ABIT's Intel 925X chipset motherboard; AA8-DuraMAX. Here are the highlights:

Let's hear what Legit Reviews says about the layout of the AA8-DuraMAX "The ABIT AA8-DuraMAX has a layout similar to that of ABIT's previous generation boards. All of the connectors for the board were positioned on the edge of the board which helps to keeps cables out of the way, and helps in the efficiency of cooling the board. Just below the SATA headers we find the BIOS and uGuru chips and LED diagnostics display. The single IDE and floppy connectors can also be seen on both the right and lower edges of the AA8-DuraMAX."

I am sure all the readers are interested to see how far Legit Reviews was able to overclock the AA8-DuraMAX to the extreme "With features like Overclocking Strips, 4 phase power, the OTES AeroFlow north bridge HSF, and all Japanese-made Rubycon capacitors it looks like ABIT has a candidate for an overclocking board. To check FSB stability we ran our board up to 275MHz FSB giving us an 1100MHz Bus Speed. On the memory side of things we got our Crucial PC-4300 memory modules up to DDR2 733MHz (5-4-4-12) at 275MHz FSB. Anything higher would cause the system not to post. This was all done at 1.43Vcore, 1.9Vdimm, and 1.85V on the north bridge. At this significant overclock the system was stable and seemed like it had more in it."

Needless to say, ABIT AA8-DuraMAX is another one of Legit Review's favourite motherboard. To conclude "Those of you who made it down to Quakecon 2004 and remember seeing our Gaming Rig at the BYOC area may recall we had the ABIT AA8-DuraMAX installed and our system had someone on it almost 24/7. This is a motherboard that we have used both on the test bench and on our gaming system over the past several weeks. When using the ABIT AA8-DuraMAX motherboard we never once saw a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) or noticed any weird issues about the board. This can be said for both our bench testing and real life testing after flying around with our system as a carryon item! Since we have used several different ABIT AA8-DuraMAX mother boards we can rule out that we have a "lucky" or "hand-picked" sample. Even our pre-production board with the flawed ICH6R south bridge overclocked 275MHz+ FSB! I'm not sure how ABIT does it time and time again, but they have another winner on their hands for the overclocker. Maybe it is the overclocking strips, four phase power, OTES AeroFlow north bridge HSF, and the all Japanese-made Rubycon capacitors that allows for the amazing overclocks! Whatever the case may be it doesn't matter to us as long as we keep getting quality products that allow enthusiasts to run their products the way they want to -- overclocked."

We are honored to receive the Editor's Choice award from Legit Reviews. "If you are looking for an Intel 925X based mother board add the ABIT AA8-DuraMAX to the short list of boards to look into. The board is a wolf in sheep's clothing! Nothing amazing at default speeds, but for the overclocker you will be able to unleash your system and aim for the max."

For the full review go here: http://www.legitreviews.com/reviews/aa8/index.html

For more on ABIT go here: http://www.ABIT-usa.com

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