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Abit Fatal1ty AN9 32X

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Pros

A board that is born to overclock

Cons

Missing legacy ports

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Pricing - Average $170 (1/22/07)

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Performance - Very Good: 83 WorldBench 5 overall score - Very Good: 135
WorldBench 5 component results (in seconds) ACD Systems ACDSee - 422 Adobe Photoshop - 289 Adobe Premiere - 319 Ahead Nero - 181 Discreet 3ds Max DirectX - 237 Discreet 3ds Max OpenGL - 276 Microsoft Office XP - 508 Windows Media Encoder - 247 Mozilla - 287 Multitasking - 351 Musicmatch Jukebox - 417 Roxio VideoWave - 236 WinZip - 249
Graphics tests (frames per second) Doom 3 1024 by 768, 32-bit - 121 Doom 3 1280 by 1024, 32-bit - 121 Doom 3 1024 by 768, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 101 Doom 3 1280 by 1024, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 89 Far Cry 1024 by 768, 32-bit - 141 Far Cry 1280 by 1024, 32-bit - 140 Far Cry 1024 by 768, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 129 Far Cry 1280 by 1024, 32-bit (with antialiasing) - 107
Features - Very Good: 80 Chip set - nVidia nForce 590 SLI chip set RAM sockets - 4 Maximum installable RAM - 8GB Memory type - DDR2 800 Expansion slots - 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 1 PCI Dual-graphics support - SLI dual-graphics support (16X) Storage connectors - 6 SATA, 1 PATA ports RAID support - 0, 1, 0+1,5, JBOD Back-panel USB ports - 4 Back-panel FireWire ports - 0 Back-panel eSATA ports - 0 Ports on bundled brackets - 2 USB, 2 FireWire USB ports on optional breakout panels - 6 FireWire ports on optional breakout panels - 2 Back-panel legacy ports - 2 PS/2 Gigabit ethernet adapters - 2 7.1-channel (192-kHz/24-bit) integrated audio chip - Realtek 882 Back-panel digital audio connections - Optical out Parts/labor warranty (years) - Three/Two Weekday support hours - 8 Weekend support hours - 0 Toll-free support - No
Design - Superior: 90