|  April 4, 2005 - Fremont, CA. Marns CDA; top hardware review site that focuses in Gaming and PC Moddin community has recently reviewed the ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 and awarded it with "Editors Choice Trophy of Excellence" award! Here are the highlights" This is the first Abit motherboard we have reviewed and to be honest, I was impressed from the start. After seeing the Pentium line and how well that performed at the CES 2005 show this year, I was really interested in the new AMD 939 motherboard "Fatal1ty" was working on. Abit and Wendel worked together to design a streamline version of the standard AN8 Abit board. This nVidia 4 motherboard is designed with the extreme gamer or over clocker in mind. You will see in this article Abit did it right... Let's take a closer look."
Let's hear what Marns CDA says about the appearance of ABIT AN8 Fatal1ty "I must say this motherboard is one of the flashiest AMD boards I have yet to come in contact with. "ABIT" and "Wendel" do a great job of adding lots of extras for your gaming enthusiast.. The entire back side of the board appears to have LED's spaced out so that the board glows a sick red. The LED's also show through the OTES South bridge fan unit. "
Marns CDA is really impressed about the ABIT uGuru Software Suite which provides Windows based Overclocking, hardware monitoring, Windows BIOS Flash and Blackbox! "The next piece of software I wanted to mention was the uGuru OC wizard interface. This software is designed to control all of your over clocking needs from Windows. This utility controls voltages, fan speeds, temperatures and frequencies. With multiple selections for CPU and Memory, you can have pre-sets when using the PC in different ways. For example, when gaming hard core and heat is an issue you can over clock the CPU and add speed to your cooling fans in order to increase performance on the fly when needed. Fatal1ty provides some presets so you can see what they do and even use them as references to customize your own presets."
Conclusion and thoughts:
When it comes to gaming and over clocking this is by far one of the best boards for the job. All of the software is designed to make over clocking easy and less harmful to your equipment.. I am very pleased to award the AN8 "Fatal1ty" motherboard our highest honor, the coveted "Editors Choice Trophy of Excellence" for a superior product designed "for" the PC enthusiast "by" a PC enthusiast.. Congratulations Abit and Fatal1ty for creating an incredible product!
Pros:
LED readout is a big plus when figuring out problems with setup.
Motherboard control utility in windows is awesome.
Superior cooling on all components.
OTES system is above and beyond.
Raid and drive controls are superb.
Appearance is plan old beautiful the Red LED lighting a must see.
Multiple USB and Fire wire connections for internal and external use more then many others competitors.
Cons:
Rear tin motherboard panel is not made for this board.
Rating: 6 out of 6 Stars 
For the full review, go to: http://www.marnscda.com/review03_19_05.htm
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