Very good hardware

General Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 102 Location: Fort Ord

CPU
* AMD Athlon 64/64FX 939-pin K8 CPU with 2GHz system bus using Hyper Transport Technology
* AMD CPU Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
Chipset
* NVIDIA NF4 Ultra single chip
* Integrated NV Gigabit Ethernet and NV Firewall
Memory
* Four 184-pin DIMM sockets
* Support 4 DIMM Dual DDR 400/333/266 non-ECC memory
* Support 4 DIMM up to 4GB Max.
ABIT Engineered
* ABIT ï¿½Guruï¿½ Technology
* ABIT OTESï¿½ Technology
* ABIT AudioMAXï¿½ Technology
* ABIT CPU ThermalGuardï¿½ Technology
NV SATA RAID
* Supports SATA 3Gbps data transfer rate
* SATA RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD
NV GbE LAN
* NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet via NF4 Ultra
NV Firewall
* Native NVIDIA Firewall via NF4 Ultra
IEEE1394
* Support IEEE 1394 at 400/200/100 Mb/s transfer rate
Audio
* 5.1-channel Audio Card
* Optical S/P DIF In/Out
Internal I/O Connectors
* 1 PCI-E X16 slot, 2 PCI-Express X1 slots
* 3 PCI slots, 1 x ABIT Audio slot
* 1x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88 MB
* 2 x Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Connectors
* 4 x SATA 3G Connectors
* 3 x USB headers, 1 x IEEE1394 header
Back Panel I/O
* 1 x IEEE1394 Connector
* 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 mouse
* 4 x USB+ 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector
Form Factor
* ATX form factor 305 x 245mm
Package
* 1 x Audio Card
* 1 x Back panel I/O shield
* 4 x SATA cables
* 1 x ATA 133 IDE Cable, 1 x FDD cable
* 1 x USB2.0 + IEEE1394 cable
* 1 x A5 standard User's Manual
* 1 x A5 ï¿½Guru User's Manual
* 1 x B5 multilingual Quick Installation Guide
* 1 x CD title, 1 x SATA Driver Disk
* 1 x ABIT Case Badge, 1 x Jumper Setting Label

The bundle is pretty standard, the only advantage I can see over the A8N-SLi is the bundled rounded cabled and SATA driver disk. Theres the standard SATA cables, brackets for more USB/firewire ports, I/O shield etc just as you'd expect from a high end board. Theres an extra fancy to these SATA cables though, they have clips on them to hold them in place in the motherboard and drives, so they cannot easily be unplugged to prevent you from knocking one loose when poking about inside your case.

Now tell me this sucks...