ABIT AN9-32X AM2 NVIDIA 590-SLI Motherboard

Introduction:

In the race to be the world's best, motherboard manufacturers around the globe continue to drain every ounce from their platforms making improvements and releasing new revisions. The crown has past arguably from maker to maker as new models hit the market. Most of the time, the combination of features to tip the votes are results of stability, over clocking, and esthetic impressions.

Among the very few crown holders, you will find ABIT to have held the votes of long time devoted followers the world over, especially when it comes to over clockers. ABIT's Socket A era put them forever in a rare league of fulfilling those three important standards.

We recently have had other Nvidia 590-SLI Chipsets across the test bench which were no slouch boards in features and some in over clocking. ABIT sent us their AN9-32X which has found its way in a wide variety of user's power house computers. Everyone wants to know what it has offer when compared to other platforms, so let's take it for a spin.


Specifications and Features:

NVIDIA® nForce SPP 190/ 590 SLI MCP Based AMD Socket 940 AM2 ATX Mainboard, 2GHz HT, Dual DDR2 800, NV SATA 3Gb/s RAID, Dual NV GbE, AudioMAX HD 7.1, NVIDIA® SLI Tech., Silent OTES 2, eSATA



Features:

Processor

• Supports Socket AM2 Processor with 2GHz system bus using Hyper Transport™ Technology

• Supports AMD CPU Cool 'n' Quiet Technology

Chipset

• NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP

Memory

• 4 X 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB

• Supports Dual channel DDR2 800/667/533 Un-buffered ECC/ Non-ECC memory

Graphics

• Use PCI-E Expansion slot

LAN

• On board Dual NV Gigabit LAN

Audio

• 7.1 CH HD AudioMAX™ Card

• Supports optical S/P DIF In/ Out

Serial ATA

• 6 x SATA (RAID) 3Gb/s

• Supports SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD

2nd SATA

• 2 x SATA (RAID) 3Gb/s including 1 external and 1 internal

IEEE1394

• Supports IEEE1394a at 400 Mb/s transfer rate

ABIT Engineered

• ABIT Guru Technology

• ABIT Silent OTES™ Technology (Patent No. M273189)

• Low ESR and high ripple conductive polymer aluminum solid capacitor

• 100% Japanese Capacitors

Expansion Slots

• 2 x PCI-E X16, 2 x PCI-E X1, 1 x PCI

Internal I/O

• 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88MB

• 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 IDE Connector

• 3 x USB2.0 header (support 6 ports)

• 2 x IEEE1394 header

• 7 x SATA 3Gb/s connector

• 1 x AudioMAX™ slot

Back Panel I/O

• 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse

• 4 x USB2.0, 2 x RJ-45 LAN Connector

• 1 x eSATA connector

Accessory

• Driver CD x1, RAID driver Disk x2

• English Manual x1, Quick Installation Guide x1

• IDE cable x1, FDD cable x1, SATA cable x6

• SLI Bridge x1, Audio MAX card x1

Form Factor

• ATX form factor 305 x 245mm

• PCB Color: Orange

RoHS

• 100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant