Hope these few teaser pictures will keep you guys interested with the Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X. From the looks of it, I'd say this board looks pretty impressive. Let's hope it perform just as good as it looks...
Stay tuned for results!
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Hope these few teaser pictures will keep you guys interested with the Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X. From the looks of it, I'd say this board looks pretty impressive. Let's hope it perform just as good as it looks...
Stay tuned for results!
Some overclocking results:
X2 3800+
OCZ PC8000 Ti Alpha VX2
X800XL
FSP Epsilon 700W
Corsair Nautilus500 w/c
X2 3800+ @ 2.7GHz | 1.37Vcore | 8 hours Dual Prime Stable
X2 3800+ @ 2.8GHz | 1.50Vcore | 1 hour Dual Prime
This board doesn't seem to overclock as good as other AM2 motherboards I've tested. HTT is only good up to 300HTT only, that's the max bootable from BIOS. Will update later as I try to overclock in Windows using ClockGen. Btw, overvolting the chipset or HT doesn't help improve overclocking, at least with the current BIOS.
Voltage seems stable and Vcore overvolts in most cases by 0.05V. With limited VDIMM up to 2.3V only, memory overclocking will be limited.
Newer beta BIOS (912) opens up SLI-Ready memory options in uGuru but it also takes away ECC options from the BIOS. So, BIOS 911 seems to be pretty stable.
The motherboard reports CPU temperature accurately and the onboard heatpipe cooling works great. The dual exhaust fans located near the rear I/O plate runs pretty quiet especially after enabling Abit EQ. Although PWM temperature was reported between 50-60C during my overclocking testing, the PWM heatsink doesn't feel too hot to touch. So it could be over-reporting.
The board has red coloured running LEDs at the backside which would look cool if your rig has a red or orange theme. However, I hate the fact that the BIOS does not allow you to switch it off. Running the boad for over 8 hours made my bench look like a Christmas tree! I would be good if abit can allow users to switch it off in Windows itself, so that we can only showoff when we wanted.
X2 3800+
OCZ PC8000 Ti Alpha VX2
X800XL
FSP Epsilon 700W
Corsair Nautilus500 w/c
X2 3800+ @ 2.7GHz | 1.37Vcore | 8 hours Dual Prime Stable
X2 3800+ @ 2.8GHz | 1.50Vcore | 1 hour Dual Prime
This board doesn't seem to overclock as good as other AM2 motherboards I've tested. HTT is only good up to 300HTT only, that's the max bootable from BIOS. Will update later as I try to overclock in Windows using ClockGen. Btw, overvolting the chipset or HT doesn't help improve overclocking, at least with the current BIOS.
Voltage seems stable and Vcore overvolts in most cases by 0.05V. With limited VDIMM up to 2.3V only, memory overclocking will be limited.
Newer beta BIOS (912) opens up SLI-Ready memory options in uGuru but it also takes away ECC options from the BIOS. So, BIOS 911 seems to be pretty stable.
The motherboard reports CPU temperature accurately and the onboard heatpipe cooling works great. The dual exhaust fans located near the rear I/O plate runs pretty quiet especially after enabling Abit EQ. Although PWM temperature was reported between 50-60C during my overclocking testing, the PWM heatsink doesn't feel too hot to touch. So it could be over-reporting.
The board has red coloured running LEDs at the backside which would look cool if your rig has a red or orange theme. However, I hate the fact that the BIOS does not allow you to switch it off. Running the boad for over 8 hours made my bench look like a Christmas tree! I would be good if abit can allow users to switch it off in Windows itself, so that we can only showoff when we wanted.
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