I remember the first abit board I ever owned.  It was the legendary BH6.  It was the first real overclocking board I owned and it was the first time that I saw this thing that abit called Soft-menu.  It seems that abit had come up with a way to make changes to the voltage, FSB, etc in the BIOS without using jumpers or dipswitches.  My point is, abit has been there since the beginning of overclocking and has developed innovative ways to help us out, like coming up with a way to overclock through the BIOS.  I'm glad to see abit still around and still innovating, but I'm especially excited to see what the AW9D-Max can do.  Let's dive in and find out.

Specifications

- LGA775
- Intel® 975X
- FSB1066
- Dual DDR2 800
- Dual PCI-E X16
- 7 SATA 3G RAID
- 1e-SATA
- Dual PCI-E GbE
- 2 IEEE1394
- 7.1 CH HD AudioMAX
- RoHS Compliancy
- Silent OTES™2
- μGuru™ Tech

Features

Processor
- Designed for Intel® LGA775 processors with1066/800MHz FSB
- Supports Intel® Core™ 2 Duo (Extreme Edition) & Pentium® Extreme Edition & Pentium® D & Pentium® 4 Processors
- Supports Intel® Hyper-Threading / XD-bit / EM64T / EIST Technology / Virtualization Technology
- Intel® Quad Core ready.

Chipset
- Intel® 975X / Intel® ICH7R Express Chipset

Memory
- 4 X 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB
- Supports Dual channel DDR2 800/667 Un-buffered / Non-ECC memory

Graphics
- Supports Dual PCI-Express X16 slots (dual ATI® CrossFire™ Graphics)

LAN
- On-board Dual PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100/ 1000M Ethernet

Audio
- abit AudioMAX™ HD 7.1 CH
- Supports Jack Sensing and S/PDIF In/Out
- Dolby® Master Studio Certificated

Expansion Slots
- 2xPCI-EX16,2xPCI-EX1,1 xPCI, 1x AudioMAX™

Internal I/O Connectors
- 1 x Floppy port, 1 x UDMA 100/66/33 connector
- 7 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
- 2 x USB 2.0 headers, 2 x IEEE1394 headers
- 1 x FP-Audio header, 1 x CD-IN

Back Panel I/O
- 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse
- 4 x USB 2.0, 2 x RJ-45 LAN
- 1 x eSATA

Serial ATA
- ICH7R: 4 x SATA 3Gb/s supports Intel® Matrix Storage SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5
- ICH7R: Support SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug & play
- Silicon Image:3132: 4 x SATA 3Gb/s, two SATA connectors of the same area can support SATA RAID 0/1

IEEE 1394
- 2 ports IEEE1394a at 400 Mb/s transfer rate

abit Engineered
- abit µGuru™ Technology
- abit AudioMAX™ HD 7.1 CH
- abit Silent OTES™ 2 Technology
- Quick Power & Reset Buttons
- Back-light Blue LED's
- Low ESR and high ripple conductive polymer aluminum solid capacitors

RoHS
RoHS Compliancy

Form Factor
- ATX form factor 305 x 245mm
- PCB Color: Black & Blue