Abit AW8 Chapter 1. Introduction

Introduction 1-1

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. CPU

• Designed for Intel® Pentium 4 / Pentium D LGA775 processors with 1066/800 MHz FSB

• Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading / XD-bit / EM64T / EIST Technology

2. Chipset

• Intel® 955X / Intel® ICH7R Express Chipset

3. Memory

• Four 240-pin DIMM slots (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM)

• Supports Dual channel DDR2 667/533 (Max. 8GB)

4. PCI-E x16 Graphic

• Delivers up to 8GB/s per direction for 3.5 times more bandwidth than AGP8X

5. ABIT Engineered

• ABIT uGuru™ 2005 Technology (ABIT OC Guru / ABIT EQ / ABIT Flash Menu / ABIT

Black Box)

• ABIT CPU ThermalGuard™ Technology

• ABIT AudioMAX HD 7.1 Technology

6. SATAII 3G RAID

• Intel® Matrix Storage Technology supports RAID 0/1/5/10

• Supports SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug

7. 2nd PCIE SATAII 3G

• OnBoard Silicon Image PCIE SATAII 3G RAID controller (For model AW8-MAX only)

8. Dual PCI-E Gigabit LAN

• OnBoard Dual PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet (For

model AW8-MAX only)

9. IEEE 1394b

• Supports 2 Ports IEEE 1394b at 800 Mb/s transfer rate and 1 port 1394a (For model

AW8-MAX only)

10. Audio

• ABIT AudioMAX HD 7.1-channel Intel® High Definition Audio with Dolby Master Studio

• Supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF In/Out

11. Internal I/O Connectors

• 1x PCI Express x16 slot

• 2x PCI-E x1 slots

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