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Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

Date: 2005-3-12

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   PerformanceThe performance from the Abit Fatal1ty AN8 motherboard was very consistent with what we have seen from other nForce4 motherboards so far.  The performance on the board is fanta...

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Having become known for their elaborate BIOS system with wild overclocking features, the Fatal1ty line continues with that trend and offers a host of additional features for those interested in tweaking every last bit of their system.

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

The opening screen on the OC Guru BIOS menu gives you a quick glance of all the features and options this board has to offer.

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

The external processor clock is able to be set as high as 410 MHz!  I don't think many will be reaching this setting, but those that wish to try liquid nitrogen are welcome...

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

The multiplier menu only displays options that we can use on this processor, and since it is not an FX CPU, we can only move down from 12x.  If you paid extra for the power of the Athlon 64 FX line you'll find the entire array of multipliers available to you.

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

The PCI Express bus can also be overclocked from 100 MHz default to 145 MHz in single MHz increments.

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

Starting with the voltages, the processor Vcore can be set up to 1.85v here...

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

DDR memory can go up to 2.8v (use that OTES RAMFlow!)...

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

DDR VTT is the bus termination value and can be increased up to 1.4v...

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

The chipset voltage can be increased up to 1.8v...

Abit Fatal1ty AN8 Review

And finally the HyperTransport bus voltage can be pushed up to 1.35v.  That is not a bad series of voltage controls for the power hungry.






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