Socket 939 Motherboards - MSI and nVidia vs. ABIT and VIA
ABIT AV8 3rd Eye
On the other side of the fence is the ABIT AV8 - 3rd Eye. It too is a standard ATX sized motherboard and uses the VIA K8T800 Pro chipset along side the VIA VT8237 Southbridge. Since the development of the original nForce chipset, there has always been a good deal of competition between the VIA and nVidia companies. This is a good thing, of course, since it keeps prices at a more stable level. If only we could get some decent competition for Microsoft, it wouldn't be so darned expensive for the operating system!
Anyway, lets take a gander at the main feature set of the ABIT board.
CPU Support
Supports AMD Athlon64 / Athlon64 FX 939-pin processor
2000MHz system bus using Hyper Transport technology
VIA K8T800 Pro/VT6237 Chipset
VIA K8T800 Pro/ VT8237 chipset
Supports Advanced Configuration and Power Management Interface (ACPI)
Accelerated Graphics Port connector supports AGP 8X/4X
Memory
Four 184-pin DIMM sockets (Unbuffered 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)
IDE/SATA
2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 Connectors
Supports SATA 150 MB/s RAID 0/1
Other Features
6-Channel AC'97 CODEC on board
On board GigABIT PCI Ethernet Controller
Supports 3 ports IEEE 1394 at 100/200/400 Mb/s transfer rate
8x USB 2.0
uGuru Technology
ABIT Guru Clock (The 3rd Eye On Your PC)
Instant Overclocking & H/W Monitoring & PC On/Off
MSN/E-mail Notification
Large LCD Screen & Room Temperature Display
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- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 1 [Introduction]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 2 [MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 3 [MSI In The Box]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 4 [MSI Motherboard]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 5 [MSI Motherboard ~ Cont]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 6 [MSI Installation and BIOS]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 7 [MSI Overclocking]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 8 [ABIT AV8 3rd Eye]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 9 [ABIT In The Box]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 10 [ABIT Motherboard]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 11 [ABIT Motherboard ~ Cont]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 12 [ABIT Installation and BIOS]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 13 [ABIT Overclocking]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 14 [Benchmarks - Test System Setup & SiSoft Sandra]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 15 [Benchmarks - 3DMark2001 SE]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 16 [Benchmarks - 3DMark03]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 17 [Benchmarks - PCMark04]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 18 [Benchmarks - HD Tach 3]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 19 [Benchmarks - CINEBENCH 2003]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 20 [Benchmarks - AquaMark 3]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 21 [Benchmarks - Quake III]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 22 [Benchmarks - Unreal Tournament 2004]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 23 [Benchmarks - Doom 3]
- MSI vs. ABIT - Page 24 [Conclusion]
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