 Taipei , September 19, 2006 – Heavyweight hardware review website Anandtech.com recently had the opportunity to get an early look at our newly launched AW9D-MAX motherboard.
Although Anandtech were testing the board with a pre-production BIOS, jokingly naming their article "When ‘Beta' MAX is a good thing", the AW9D-MAX proved to be hiding some very solid performance behind its distinguished exterior: "Overall, the new color scheme gives the board a very clean yet menacing look worthy of the MAX designation … Abit has delivered a well optioned but very performance oriented 975X board ... While our BIOS is still beta we were surprised at the stability of the motherboard during our benchmarking … The performance of the board was exemplary in the majority of our tests. We found the board to be a very consistent performer and extremely stable up to its overclocking limit ... We were really surprised by our overclocking results".
The AW9D-MAX holds plenty of positive surprises in terms of performance, and the editors at Anandtech are well-known for searching out the very limits of any piece of computer hardware. Inspired by Bushido , ‘the Way of the Warrior', the AW9D-MAX is wielding a swift and deadly blade, as even this early version defeats the other combatant with ease: "Overall the board was the equal of or better than the [competitor] in overclocking. Since the memory remained at a 1066 strap during overclocking on the Abit board we found the general performance was slightly better than the [competitor] past 416FSB … With the E6600, our Abit board offers a 5% improvement in the stock clock speed Sandra Unbuffered test and a 3% improvement in the overclock tests over the [competitor's] board … The performance of the Abit AW9D-MAX was very consistent and in alignment with the memory test results. We found the board to be very responsive and extremely stable during testing ... the Abit board had up to a 5% advantage in our video/audio encoding tests".
 Anandtech concludes: "Our preview of the Abit AW9D-MAX now shows a motherboard capable of living up to its heritage. In fact, this is probably the best performing Abit board we have tested since the IC7-MAX3 board that was one of our all time favorite Intel 875 boards ... we have to state once again that the overall performance of the board is extremely impressive at this time".
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Universal abit AW9D-MAX
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