ABIT AW8 receives Editor Choice award from Phoronix

August 26th, 2005 Fremont, CA Phoronix – a dedicated PC hardware review site devoted to Linux operating systems has recently reviewed the ABIT AW8 motherboard and gave it 9 out of 10 scores and Editor Choice award. Here is a quick summary. "With our standards set high, from previous stunning Abit motherboards, we're pleased to say the AW8 has now set our perception of their products even higher! We weren't able to clock the Pentium D extraordinarily high, due to air-cooling, but we were satisfied with how efficient the Silent OTES (Q-OTES) was able to cool the Northbridge and MOSFETs."

Phornix was really impressed with AW8's physical layout leaving enough rooms for the enthusiast to install any kind of coolers! "It was very apparent that Abit engineers spent a fair amount of time on the design and layout for the AW8. For the most part, it was clear of any possible obstructions and around crucial areas, such as the CPU socket, it was virtually free of any components that could cause concern."

The Silent OTES not only cools off the North bridge chipset, it also provides absolutely a quiet environment for the users "As the original OTES cooling system on the Abit IC7-MAX3 was designed to actively cool the PWM MOSFETs and capacitors, Silent OTES does the same but takes into consideration the noise level by simply offering four tall aluminum passive heatsinks."

Conclusion "Having not reviewed any Abit motherboard in nearly a year, we were completely ecstatic when this new sample arrived in our labs. Since the AW8 utilizes Intel's new flagship Chipset, the i955X (Glenwood), we had expected to encounter some problems along the way considering all of our recent Pentium D compatible motherboards had suffered from one Linux problem or another, but there were simply no software related problems!"

ABIT is honored to receive the Editor Choice award from Phoronix

"The AW8 may very well be the perfect Pentium D/Pentium 4 motherboard for you."

For the full review, go to: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=251&num=1

For more information on the ABIT AW8, go here: ABIT AW8

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