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Review: ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI S939 Motherboard

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 June 2005, 00:00

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Specifications

Mainboard ABIT Fatal1ty AN8 SLI
CPU Support All S939 processors (including dual-core CPU support)
Northbridge Single nForce4 SLI chipset
Memory Support 4 slots, non-ECC, DDR-1 only. Optimum support at DDR400 dual-channel. Maximum 4GB system RAM
AGP None
PEG16X 2x x16 slots (run at x8 in SLI mode)
Southbridge Single nForce4 SLI (see above)
Audio Onboard 5.1-channel audio from nForce4 Ultra chipset. AC'97 only, run via Realtek ALC850 8-channel CODEC and AudioMAX board
Audio Connectivity Bundled audio card. 8-channel support
PCI 2x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slots
PCI Express 2x x1 slots
IDE 2 ATA133 compliant ports from nForce4 SLI
IDE RAID RAID0, 1, 0+1 from nForce4 SLI 2 ports
SATA 4 ports from nForce4 SLI. Supports SATA2, RAID0, 1, and 0+1
Additional SATA None
Networking Gigabit Ethernet via nForce4 SLI and Vitesse PHY
USB 4x USB 2.0 on I/O. Headers for 6 additional ports (3x2)
FireWire Texas Instruments TS43BAB22A 2-port controller
I/O OTES, PS/2, 4x USB2.0, 1x FireWire 1394a
Other notables ABIT µGuru monitoring/tweaking software, debug LED, µGuru Panel, SLI
Board dimensions ATX form factor - 305mm x 245mm
Street price £130


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