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ABIT AV8 3rd Eye

AMD Athlon 64 socket 939 motherboard
Chipset VIA K8T800 Pro and VIA 8237
AGP / PCI

Overall Score: 95/100 points



Evaluating motherboards is not always easy. But once in a while, you come across a motherboard that's so well put together and everything runs flawlessly the way it supposed to. The AV8 3rd Eye from ABIT is a good example of this. ABIT have made quite a name for themselves, and their boards are no strangers to gamers, power users and overclockers. The have a long experience in making motherboards and that experience have been put to good use to make the AV8 3rd Eye.

Overview

The full specification (taken from ABIT's website)
CPU

• Supports AMD Athlon™ 64 / Athlon™ 64 FX 939-pin processor
• 2000MHz system bus using Hyper Transport™ technology

CPU Integrated Dual Channel Memory Controller

• Four 184-pin DIMM sockets (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM)
• Supports 2 DIMM Single Channel DDR 400/333/266 (Max. 2GB)
• Supports 4 DIMM Dual Channel DDR 400/333/266 (Max. 4GB)

Chipset

• VIA K8T800 Pro/ VT8237 chipset
• Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
• Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 8X/4X

SATA 150 RAID

• Supports SATA 150 MB/s RAID 0/1

GbE LAN

• On board Gigabit PCI Ethernet Controller
• Operation support ACPI & Wake on LAN

IEEE 1394

• Supports 3 ports IEEE 1394 at 100/200/400 Mb/s transfer rate

Audio

• 6-Channel AC'97 CODEC on board
• Professional digital audio interface supports optical S/P DIF In/Out

ABIT Engineered

• ABIT μGuru™ Technology
• ABIT CPU ThermalGuard™ Technology

ABIT Guru Clock inside (The 3rd Eye On Your PC)

• Instant Overclocking & H/W Monitoring & PC On/Off
• MSN/E-mail Notification
• Large LCD Screen & Room Temperature Display

Internal I/O Connectors

• 1 x AGP 8X/4X slot
• 5 x PCI slots
• 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88 MB
• 2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 Connectors
• 2 x SATA 150 Connectors
• 2 x USB headers, 2 x IEEE1394 headers
• 1 x FP-Audio header
• 1 x CD-IN, 1 x AUX IN

Back Panel I/O

• 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse
• 1 x Serial, 1 x Parallel, 1 x S/P DIF Output, 1 x S/P DIF Input
• 1 x Audio connector (Center/Subwoofer, Surround Speaker)
• 1 x Audio connector (Line Out, Line-in, MIC-in)
• 2 x USB, 1 x IEEE1394 Connector
• 2 x USB, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector

Miscellaneous

• ATX form factor (305x245mm)

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