Fatal1ty AA8XE - Best Buy for P4 platform
"Battle of the Boards" by PC WORLD magazine

April 12, 2005 Fremont, CA - Jon L. Jacobi, a technology writer from one of the best selling computer magazines with world-class columnists, hard hitting reviews, extreme technology and industry news had recently had an article to help you find the best centerpiece for your machine. PC World road-tested 14 state-of-the-art boards for Athlon 64 and Pentium 4 CPUs. Fatal1ty AA8XE proved to be one of the best motherboards out there!

"ABIT's Fatal1ty AA8XE easily won PC World's "sexiest motherboard in the review" prize and edged Asus's P5AD2-E Premium for their P4 Best Buy. With its bright red color, sleek auxiliary fans and ducting, and numerous LEDs (on top and bottom), it's quite a sight--especially in the dark. Based on Intel's 925XE chip set, the board is packed with overclocking settings and features."

"ABIT provides detailed, well-illustrated documentation for this board and includes its µGuru Windows software for overclocking and FlashMenu for updating the BIOS over the Internet. An on-board digital readout tells you exactly where you are in the boot process-a handy troubleshooting tool."

On the Fatal1ty AA8XE is specially designed unlockable BIOS, which grants the user a number of BIOS options designed to push the system to the very limits for unmatched gaming performance. The Fatal1ty AA8XE also comes with ABIT's exclusive µGuru™ technology, which integrates OC Guru™ overclocking, ABIT EQ™ hardware monitoring, FlashMenu™ 1-click BIOS updating, and BlackBox™ diagnostic technology into a user friendly Windows-based interface. With OC Guru, users can tune front side bus speeds and CPU voltages on-the-fly through Windows. ABIT EQ lets users monitor fan speeds, system voltages and temperatures at-a-glance, and FlashMenu™ 1-click BIOS update makes it easy to keep the system running in absolute peak condition. If a problem arises, BlackBox™ automatically detects your hardware configuration, and allows it to be sent to ABIT tech support for fast, friendly e-service. With OC Guru, ABIT EQ, FlashMenu, and BlackBox, gamers have the most comprehensive suite of system utilities ever to power a desktop motherboard.

The Fatal1ty AA8XE motherboard integrates no less than five cooling technologies that keep the Fatal1ty AA8XE cool in the heat of battle. The specially designed PWM system not only delivers clean stable power to the on-board components, but positioned over the MOSFETs are high-grade heatsinks that draw heat efficiently from some of a motherboard's hottest components. In fact, with ABIT's unique layout, the MOSFETs remain below 50°C! With its unique vertical orientation, OTES AeroFlow™ simultaneously cools the northbridge, graphics card, and southbridge. ABIT Engineers innovate yet again with OTES RAMFlow™, the world's first integrated memory thermal solution on a desktop motherboard. With OTES RAMFlow™, DDR memory is kept cool via two high-speed fans for unsurpassed system stability. The Fatal1ty AA8XE also includes ABIT Engineered OC Strips, which help quickly draw heat away from the PCB. All heat is then exhausted by a Dual OTES™ system, which delivers twin fans and a heat duct that efficiently channels heat from the inside to the outside of the case. For the optimal balance of thermal and acoustic performance, all fans are automatically controlled via µGuru™.

With these exclusive ABIT technologies, the Fatal1ty AA8XE delivers impressive performance for the serious gamer right out of the box.

For full review, get the May 2005 issue of PC World on the news stands or go to: http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,119984,pg,4,00.asp

For more information on Fatal1ty AA8XE, go to: ABIT Fatal1ty AA8XE

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