ABIT AN8 32X

Good one Tim, This board seems to be an excellent start on the road to recovery. Well done ABIT..;-)
(oops, just broke my arm patting myself on the back..hehe)

Just purchased the board myself, as Overclockers Uk are doing a very good deal on them this week...


http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/ABIT_Socket_939.html

Damn, that's a good deal, thanks for the heads up and welcome to the forums! ;)

Nice board - i like the SATA cables :D ...however I'm still in favour of the Asus A8R32-MVP if you are not after SLI!!

I can't imagine needing a single socket 939 board any time soon, but that looks like a VERY nice board. I love all the SATA sockets and the RAID 5 functionality. Also nice to see GB LAN going mainstream. Now if the price on GB switches would only come down some.

Only Bit-Tech would refer to water cooling as "One of the more aminstream cooling soulutions on the market" :D:D

The Inq reported that consumer 8port gigabit switches are now $56

http://theinquirer.net/?article=30559

GbE has been "mainstream" since... 2004, at least.

Im with you on good step, Tim; this board is definitely a step in the right direction. (even further would be to clone the Ultimate Motherboard :D)

As soon as I read, "lack of legacy connectors on the back I/O panel", this board became my new optimum performance choice of a motherboard :). I've been waiting so long for this.

Originally Posted by EK-MDi
As soon as I read, "lack of legacy connectors on the back I/O panel", this board became my new optimum performance choice of a motherboard :). I've been waiting so long for this.

Evidently you havent noticed the DFI Nforce 4 SLI series - those dont have legacy either ;) Seriously, if you dont want legacy connectors, you can easily desolder the buggers (Im starting to think I may want to make TuM's PATA socket removable )

Originally Posted by RotoSequence
Evidently you havent noticed the DFI Nforce 4 SLI series - those dont have legacy either ;) Seriously, if you dont want legacy connectors, you can easily desolder the buggers (Im starting to think I may want to make TuM's PATA socket removable )

Kool. Thanks for notifying me of that.
And as a customer, I expect not to have to take such measures ("desolder the buggers"), just to lose the legacy hardware on my products. At least companies are starting to make the change now, so I won't have to.

Originally Posted by EK-MDi
As soon as I read, "lack of legacy connectors on the back I/O panel", this board became my new optimum performance choice of a motherboard :). I've been waiting so long for this.

Remember Abit's AT7? That one dumped the legacy connectors with a Socket A board. Once again, Abit leads the way

Good review :)

Certainly a nice one from Abit there - good to see that they're making their way steadily back into the market. This looks like one of the best 939 enthusiast boards there is and, combined with traditional Abit stability, it's certainly an excellent choice.

Dissapointing about the "maximum clock" 272 seems pretty week, especially since some of us have seen near 400 out of DFI products...

Originally Posted by Tulatin
Dissapointing about the "maximum clock" 272 seems pretty week, especially since some of us have seen near 400 out of DFI products...

We got 340MHz out of the board :?

There isn't memory available that's fast enough to cope with that kind of HTT - this CPU doesn't seem to like more than 280MHz HTT (in general), but we've had the memory running at 337MHz 1:1 with another CPU that's no longer in the office.

FWIW, I've seen over 400MHz on the DFI with a divider. ;)

Good review, don't know if i need this much performance, but nonetheless good review.

decent review, I'm oh so tempted ...
When are you doing an AT8 32X review

Btw 400HTT has been reported as achieved on the Abit forums so it's probably the usual sympathetic component/time to tweak situation.

I was chuffed to bits with the NF7-S as it was a great performer and solid as a rock. I upgraded to S939 and thought i would stick with my now trusted Abit and bought a AN8-Ultra. It did everything i wanted and also performed very well until i upgraded my Ram and it was never stable again. After much pulling of hair swapping out components i determined the board was faulty and sent it back for RMA.

9 weeks later still no replacement!

Abit are going to have to make a LOT of improvements before i would recommend then to anyone again. :|

how does the sound perform on this board?
actually i have a nf7-s and audio is very distrurbed, and with a good headset (sennheiser hd-280) that's VERY annoying! (i can hear when i move the mouse on the screen...i can even register it! :( )

ABit is dead.My favorite mainboard is ASUS A8N32SLi.

ABIT lives dude, and wait till you get a problem with that board, and see what happens then. We didn't win the best customer service award in 2005 for nothing. Of course I respect your choice as you wish, but I'm sure for every good point you have, I can find an equally good one about our board/s.

Mr Rude baboon dude, Please PM me with your email address and I'll follow up for you and give you an idea of why the board is taking so long in RMA.

Originally Posted by RobinBen
My favorite mainboard is ASUS A8N32SLi.

There's more than a few previous A8N32 users switched to the AN8 32X & reckon it's the better board. ;)

Originally Posted by RobinBen
ABit is dead.My favorite mainboard is ASUS A8N32SLi.

Yay for constructive comments!!

Abit is far from dead. This board is very solid and I really can't see much fault with it. It's definately an improvement and is hopefully a sign that there are better things to come!!

Originally Posted by lepre
how does the sound perform on this board?
actually i have a nf7-s and audio is very distrurbed, and with a good headset (sennheiser hd-280) that's VERY annoying! (i can hear when i move the mouse on the screen...i can even register it! :( )

Subjectively speaking, the sound was reasonably good - it's not a match to HD audio or Creative X-Fi quality, but MP3 playback/gaming seems alright with onboard sound.

There's certainly no interferance that I can make out through my Sennie HD570s.

Originally Posted by bigz
Subjectively speaking, the sound was reasonably good - it's not a match to HD audio or Creative X-Fi quality, but MP3 playback/gaming seems alright with onboard sound.

There's certainly no interferance that I can make out through my Sennie HD570s.

thanks!