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abit AN-M2HD Motherboard Review
Date Published:
10-25-2007
Written By:
Sludge
Edited By:
Diceman
Provided By:
abit
Where to Buy:
Newegg
Discuss Article:
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Pages: 1 2 3 4 5


abit AN-M2HD Motherboard

Introduction:

   Most motherboards are usually geared toward the enthusiast or the budget builder, but more and more manufacturers lately are creating specialty-type motherboards, like ones for home entertainment. abit has created a motherboard just for this niche of people: the AN-M2HD. As the days pass, HTPC's continue to gain massive popularity with moviephiles with the advent of larger storage devices and HDMI. The AN-M2HD has an onboard HDMI connection for some of today's newer monitors/TV's. The AN-M2HD utilizes the new NVIDIA GeForce 7050PV North Bridge and NVIDIA nForce 630a South Bridge chips. Each chip is cooled by a heatsink to add to that extra quietness for a theater setup, but 4 auxiliary fan headers are included on the motherboard if extra cooling will be needed.

Specifications:   

CPU
- Designed for AMDŽ Socket AM2 Processors with 2000M T/s system bus using Hyper Transport Technology
- AMDŽ Cool 'n' Quiet Technology

Chipset
- NVIDIAŽ GeForceŽ7050PV/nForce 630a
- Dual Head Display Controller Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability, with independent display controllers for one digital HDTV and one analog monitor.

Memory
- 4 X 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB
- Supports Dual Channel DDR2 800 un-buffered ECC / Non-ECC memory

HDMI

- Integrated TMDS interface with HDCP key

Graphics

- Integrated GeForce7 Series Shader model 3.0 DirectX9 graphics
- Programmable PureVideo HD Video Processor

LAN
- Gigabit Ethernet (Marvell 88E1116)

Audio
- On board 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC (Realtek ALC888)
- Auto Jack Sensing and optical S/P DIF Out

IEEE 1394
- Supports 2 Ports IEEE 1394 at 400Mb/s transfer rate (Texas Instruments Chip)

Serial ATA
- 4 x SATA (RAID) 3 Gb/s
- Supports SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 and JBOD

Internal I/O
- 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88M B
- 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 IDE Connector
- 4 x USB 2.0 header (support 8 ports)
- 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connector
- 1 x IEEE1394 header
- 1 x S/P DIF Out header

Expansion Slots
- 1 x PCI-E X16
- 1 x PCI-E X1
- 2 x PCI

Back Panel I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 7.1 CH HD Audio connector (Front, Line-in, MIC-in, Center/Subwoofer, Surround, Rear Surround)
- 4 x USB2.0, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector, 1 x 1394
- 1 x HDMI, 1 x D-Sub, 1 x S/P DIF Out

Form Factor
- mATX form factor 244 x 244 mm
- PCB Color: Blue

RoHS
- 100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant

Windows Vista
- Microsoft Vista Premium visual interface support

Packaging & Contents:


Retail Front

Back

Manual

Upper Level

Lower Level

Contents

    The package for the abit AN-M2HD has a sort of 70's-style electronics theme to it. The contents inside are all packaged inside other boxes. This really keeps the items secured, so they are not moving around inside the main box risking damage to the motherboard. Included items are as follows: four SATAII cables, one IDE and Floppy ribbon, USB and IEEE PCI bracket, HDMI to DVI cable, motherboard I/O plate, manual, and driver CD.

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