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November 22nd, 2005 - Linux-focused hardware website Phoronix honored the original AW8 with the title "Editor's Choice" back in August, and now the time has come for the AW8-MAX to win the same award! As the editor at Phoronix notes: "When it comes to the performance of the AW8-MAX against the AW8 vanilla, there isn't much in the way of a performance gap between the two boards in our testing. While the MAX variant provides more in the way of expansion and connectivity possibilities, both motherboards provide excellent, and near equal, performance while the AW8-MAX comes packed with additional logic."
In the shadow of Microsoft Windows and its domination on the PC market, too many motherboard-makers fail to meet the hardware demands of the countless PC enthusiasts using the Linux operating system. ABIT Engineered motherboards deliver BulletProof technology with the latest features the industry has to offer: "Powered by the i955X + ICH-7R Chipset, the ABIT AW8-MAX motherboard ships with all of the latest features at this time if you are building an Intel rig whether it be for gaming or related tasks. With support for 8GB of DDR2-667 RAM, Pentium D CPUs, PCI Express, SATA2, and Intel Matrix RAID, this motherboard comes packed with features to your heart's delight … In addition, the AW8-MAX comes frosted with a second Broadcom NetLink Gigabit controller, Silicon Image SATA controller to provide an additional two ports, and Texas Instruments Firewire controller to provide IEEE-1394b/a connectivity". |