ABIT AT8 32X CrossFire Mainboard Review Intro 1/5
Bluetooth 9 May 2006

The mainboard

ABIT AT8 32X is the long awaited mainboard from ABIT. This fanless mainboard, based on the ATi RD580, supports Dual 16X PCIe CrossFire, an improvement over the AT8 which is based on the earlier RD480 chipset which only supports Dual 8X PCIe lanes. This overclockers' board has lots of voltage options available. Check out the BIOS screen shots for more information.

AT8 32x supports the Socket 939 Athlon 64/64FX/64/Semrpon processor. It is based on the ATi RD580 chipset as north bridge and the South bridge is based on the ULI m1575 chipset. It supports 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0/1/0+1/5), SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug. It also comes with a Dual on board Silicon Image Sil3132 PCIE SATA 3Gb/s RAID controller. There is also GbE, 1394 and 7.1ch audio support.

CPU Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64X2/ 64FX/ 64/ Sempron Processors with 2000MT/s System Bus AMD CPU Cool 'n' Quiet Technology

Chipset ATI® CrossFire™ Xpress 3200 + ULI1575 chipset Support Dual Full PCIE x16 bandwidth to graphic

Memory Four 184-pin DIMM sockets Supports dual channel DDR400 ECC/non-ECC un-buffered memory Supports maximum memory capacity up to 8GB

Graphic Two PCI Express X16 slots support Dual Graphic card by ATI CrossFireTM Technology Two X16 graphics links for high performance Crossfire configurations

ABIT Engineered ABIT µGuru™ Technology ABIT Silent OTES™ Technology

Serial ATA 4 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s (RAID 0/1/0+1/5) Supports SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug Dual on board Silicon Image Sil3132 PCIE SATA 3Gb/s RAID controller

LAN On board 10/100/1000M PCIE controller

IEEE1394 Supports IEEE1394 by PCI controller

Audio On board 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC Support S/P DIF In/Out Dolby Digital Live technology

Expansion Slots 2 x PCI Express X16 slots 2 x PCI Express X1 slots 2 x PCI slots

Internal I/O Connectors Floppy Port supports up to 2.88 MB 2 x Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 Connectors 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s Connectors; 2 x USB headers, 1 x IEEE1394 header

Back Panel I/O 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 mouse Silent OTES, 1 x S/P DIF In/Out 7.1 CH Audio connector (Front, Line-in, MIC-in, Center/Subwoofer, Surround, Rear Surround) 4 x USB2.0, 1 x IEEE1394, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector

Compatible Accessories Guru Clock™

Form Factor ATX form factor 305 x 245mm (12 x 9.6 inch)

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