 November 6, 2006 – XtremeSystems guru Charles "Fugger" Wirth, renowned for his overclocking exploits and an "Xtreme Legend" in his own right, recently put the AW9D-MAX through its paces: "The board is feature packed and sells for a modest $240 at Newegg."
Fugger mentioned the LED lighting features unique to the abit board: "abit had an engineer deck the boards out in LED's that are changeable in BIOS with a bunch of presets … Most people don't know that the board has a built in LED light show, programmable settings from bios that allow different patterns."
abit is well known for its customer support and with Fugger we were no different: "abit was quick to issue a beta bios shortly after board release as promised, the bios improved my overclock and no instability problems when operating at 4.33Ghz. I have quite a bit of load on my power supply with the CrossFire cards and 4x RAID drives let alone the huge OC on the system. I'm feeding the CPU 1.7v."
XtremeSystems were amazed at the stability and rock solid feature set that came with the board: "There is no power restart issues like those found on the [Competitor's] line of boards and I only had done the CMOS reset once by choice. The system will reset after failed overclock correctly making life much easier when testing."
 They conclude: "It would be safe to recommend this board for both benching and gaming. Stability is one of this boards strong points. Knowing the board hits so high on 1066 strap makes this board very strong in bandwidth at top speed."
XtremeSystems
Gives the AW9D-MAX
9.5 / 10
For the full review, go here: Xtremesystems
For more information on the AB9 Pro, go here: Universal abit AW9D-MAX | 
