Abit AW9D Max

batboy · Aug 6, 2006

The Abit AW9D Max is due to be released around the end of August. It will support Core 2 Duo. There will be a Fata1ty version and a plain version too. The Max will be more geared for overclocking. I borrowed the pics and description from the Abit forum.

This is Abit's top of the line board featuring the Intel 975x and ICHR7 chipsets, ATI CrossFire support, silent OTES 2 cooling, OC Strips, uGuru clock, and AudioMax Technology featuring a separate riser card for the Realtek ALC882M HD codec. The memory slots will actually be colored coded black and white on the production series boards. Pricing will be around US $230.

Rocinante · Aug 6, 2006

OMG that's beautiful...

I assume you'll be grabbing one when they arrive and benchmark the crap out of it for us...

Do you have any idea the difference in the MAX and Fatality versions???

I'm hopeing they have some sort of active MOSFET cooling, so I don't have to rig anything up for my water cooling...

batboy · Aug 6, 2006

AW9D Fatal1ty

It does appear to have a couple little fans in the upper right corner, but not sure how it'll work.

* Support for Intel LGA775 processors (including Conroe);
* Chipset: i975X + ICH7R;
* Memory: dual-channel DDR II-533/667/800 (MAX 8 GB);
* RAID: 8 Serial ATA II channels (RAID 0,1, 0+1,5); 1 Parallel ATA;
* LAN: Two Gigabit LAN controllers;
* USB 2.0: 8 ports;
* Firewire: 2 ports;
* PCI x16 Express Graphics: 2 slots;
* PCI x1 Express: 2 slots;
* "regular" PCI: 1 slot;
* 8-channel integrated HD AudioMAX.

RangerXLT8 · Aug 6, 2006

Those are some nice looking boards batboy... Which one are you considering? IF they preform anything like they look we have another contender for the high-end enthusiast Conroe MB.

dicecca112 · Aug 6, 2006

god would someone shoot whoever creates the layout? and stop with the heatpipe stuff. great so if I upgrade to those boards, I need to remove the heatpipe again. They better fix the memory issues that most abit boards have now adays. 255 MAX FSB on my AW8D is ridiculous

BigDan3131 · Aug 6, 2006

I think I'll go to the MAX version as the heatsinks are huge and all three are linked together. Besides I dont trust fans that tiny to last very long.

batboy · Aug 6, 2006

I've been hoping to give the Max version a spin. My AW8 had some RAM compatibility issues, but they finally got that straightened out after several BIOS upgrades. Dicecca, you only could get 255 FSB with the AW8D? My AW8 could bench at 288 FSB. When I used 14X, I could go over 300 FSB. Yeah, Abit has been having trouble lately, but I'm hopeful with this new board.

dicecca112 · Aug 6, 2006

yup only 255FSB. Tried everything the people over at Abit Forums told me to do with no avail. No working floppy at the moment, but the word at the forums is, I wouldn't do any better with the v11 Bios. Could hit 4.0GHZ with the the Asus board. But I can't stand the board, two quirky for my tastes.

Deanzo · Aug 10, 2006

@ dicecca
Have you used any other chips on your board ?
I ask as I've read lots of post's about the fsb issue, hell I've posted some myself.
No matter what I did I couldn't get over 251 fsb with my 640 so I was going to go with Asus for my next board, but I picked up a 920 the other day and with only a little bit of work I can bench any thing at 300fsb and post at 330, dont ask me why I just dont get it, couldnt post at 251 with one chip but I can at 330 with another...WTF....

And unless Im wrong a 2.8 that will post at 4.6, cooled only by an XP120 isnt to bad, right ?

Im sooo happy at what my new chip will do on this board Im now going to hold off on Core 2 Duo until I can get a AW9D Max

I all so cant get over my PSU holding up to it, But I still have the low temp issues

wing · Aug 10, 2006

I LIKE the fans that blow on the PWM heatsink there that the heatpipes from the north and southbrdige come into. My power stuff gets a little toasty (in the mid 70's...i am thinking of trying to find a small fan to put on that heatsink on my aw8d. Wonder what the pricing point will be for that bad boy.

dicecca112 · Aug 10, 2006

Deanzo said:
@ dicecca
Have you used any other chips on your board ?
I ask as I've read lots of post's about the fsb issue, hell I've posted some myself.
No matter what I did I couldn't get over 251 fsb with my 640 so I was going to go with Asus for my next board, but I picked up a 920 the other day and with only a little bit of work I can bench any thing at 300fsb and post at 330, dont ask me why I just dont get it, couldnt post at 251 with one chip but I can at 330 with another...WTF....

And unless Im wrong a 2.8 that will post at 4.6, cooled only by an XP120 isnt to bad, right ?

Im sooo happy at what my new chip will do on this board Im now going to hold off on Core 2 Duo until I can get a AW9D Max

I all so cant get over my PSU holding up to it, But I still have the low temp issues

basically this board has major memory issues, some memory it loves, others it hates. I've on the v12 bios and have yet to realyl push the board. I'm at 3.6 which was not stable before so we'll see. I've also learned that it undervolts a ton. So I'll have to check that out as well.

EDIT 250 won't boot. Oh well. Hope its the memory, its on the list to be replaced anyway

BigDan3131 · Aug 11, 2006

Wing,

Just put a 120mm fan in your side panel and make sure you have a large enough rear exhaust fan to handle the pressure. If the 120 has enough push it should keep everything cooler. The ducted 120's in mine combine to flow 160 cfm.

batboy · Aug 16, 2006

Looks like Abit is claiming the AW9D is officially released. I doubt you'll see any at the retailers for a couple of weeks though.

http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/mot...detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=AW9D-MAX&fMTYPE=LGA775

Press release: http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2006/20060816.php

dicecca112 · Aug 16, 2006

yeah, I might get that if and this is a big if it doesn't have memory issues

Evilsizer · Aug 16, 2006

anyone else like the blue on the standard aw9d?

Deanzo · Aug 16, 2006

batboy said:
I doubt you'll see any at the retailers for a couple of weeks

Mmmmmmm, I know what I want for Father's Day.

But where I live, it will be more like 8 weeks

Rocinante · Aug 16, 2006

Y'all have to stop tempting me like this... :drool:

I really need to take a wait and see stance...my current boards are good enough for now...

Did anyone else notice the "Nvidia dual graphics card" statement in the press release??? I wonder if this is a prelude to SLI for the 975 chipset, or just wishful thinking...

skou · Aug 17, 2006

batboy said:
Looks like Abit is claiming the AW9D is officially released. I doubt you'll see any at the retailers for a couple of weeks though.

http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/mot...detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=AW9D-MAX&fMTYPE=LGA775

Press release: http://www.abit-usa.com/news/2006/20060816.php

My order is already in!

To misquote Mel Brooks, (History of the World, Part One) "It's nice to be the Mod!"

I should be getting one of the first to hit Fremont Ca.

I'll keep you all posted on how it works.

steve

dicecca112 · Aug 17, 2006

great skou, so I don't waste my money like I did on the aw8D and not know about the memory issues

BigDan3131 · Aug 17, 2006

Great, that makes me even more hungy for it. GL with it Skou

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