July 3, 2006 –: Driverheaven's Fatal(1ty) attraction gives abit the coveted Gold award: "abit's Fatality AN9 32x motherboard is an almost perfect product. It performs excellently and was completely stable throughout our testing. Specific points of excellence were the non-inclusion of legacy connectors and the good use of cooling fans. The bundle abit provide is also very good. We were pleased to see the extra cooling fan which improves air flow for SLI systems. The documentation abit supply is some of the most thorough and well written in the industry."
abit's tradition of having the best BIOS with awesome capabitlities gives the board a lot of flexibility when it comes to tweaking. To make things better your Fatal1ty product will look and feel unique and different from the competition: "The vast majority of the time motherboards come with a "standard bios" – one we are all used to seeing, however the AN9 is a little different as it features abit's uGuru screens. These screens allow configuration and monitoring of many aspects of the system."
abit always looks to improve and innovate: "One aspect of good design is the PCIe 16x slot clips. abit have employed a slightly different design with them and it makes removal of cards much easier. With the latest BIOS all of the major settings are available to end users such as memory and CPU voltage, memory timings and HTT speeds. Additionally EPP is supported in this bios along with full support for the latest Nvidia GX2 graphics cards."
When compared to stiff competition: "Looking at the motherboard performance first we see that abit's Fatality AN9 32x compares well with MSI's top of the range K9N Platinum board…the abit board is now managing to outscore the MSI board in almost every real world test"
In summary: "abit's Fatality AN9 32x is the fastest AM2 board we have seen to date, especially for gaming. It comes packed with extras and most importantly is completely stable. In addition to this it matched up perfectly with the high spec DDR2 we have tested today, allowing us to hit memory bandwidth scores of nearly 10k in Sisoft Sandra when overclocked. We wouldn't choose any other board to build an AM2 machine on at the time of writing."
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