Abit Reveals Fatal1ty AA8 Motherboard

13 Oct, 2004 at 3:01pm ET Article published in Tech

DigiTimes has the latest information on Abit’s new gaming motherboard, called the “Fatal1ty AA8”.

The specifications for the Fatal1ty AA8 include Intel’s newest 925 series chipset, a front side bus speed of 1066Mhz, up to 4GB of dual channel DDR2-533 RAM, one PCI Express x16 graphics slot and two PCI Express x1 slots, a Gigabit port, a 10/100 Ethernet port, Intel’s Matrix storage technology on four Serial ATA (SATA) ports, support for three IEEE 1394 ports at 100/200/400 Mbps transfer rate. Specifically for case modding enthusiasts, the Fatal1ty AA8 has a total of fifteen red LEDs onboard with eight on the front and seven on the back, according to Thirlwell.

Source: DigiTimes

Comments

13 Oct 2004 ~ 4:37pm PirateNinja They are speaking l337!. Outstanding. I can not say I'm a fan of the LEDs, but I never liked case lighting in any form. I'm boring like that. Looks very nice performance wise.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 4:39pm primesuspect Abit reveals DUMBEST HARDWARE NAME EVER

Oh, did you hear about the new AMD MIGHTYMORPHIN POW3R1337 processors too?
13 Oct 2004 ~ 4:53pm Thrax That is a pretty ridiculous name.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 5:00pm pseudonym Hey they sponsor the best FPS gamer in the world, might as well name the gaming board after him. Think Air Jordans only for computers.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 5:24pm Geeky1 Dude, where did my serial ports go?
13 Oct 2004 ~ 5:25pm Thrax The way of the dodo, as they should have.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 6:32pm KingFish Looks to be a solid board with a ridiculous name.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 6:53pm Armo

Thrax wrote:

The way of the dodo, as they should have.

quite a long time ago
13 Oct 2004 ~ 7:00pm Gobbles why the hell make a leet gamers board using an intel processor and chipset.. Seems kinda oxymoronic if you ask me.

Now if they said they were making a board named after a space heater.. then intel would fit the bill.

Its like saying... slow AMD.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 7:16pm drasnor

Armo wrote:

Thrax wrote:

Geeky1 wrote:

Dude, where did my serial ports go?

The way of the dodo, as they should have.

quite a long time ago

Hey now, some of us still need those serial ports for stuff like programming microcontrollers and going null modem to all our intelligent lab hardware. I'm not quite ready to buy a board with less than the standard two quite yet.

-drasnor
13 Oct 2004 ~ 8:21pm Thrax USB -> Serial converter. Windows 2K and XP can emulate serial connections via USB.
13 Oct 2004 ~ 9:03pm drasnor Too bad the software is written in DOS.

-drasnor
13 Oct 2004 ~ 10:48pm EQuito

Gobbles wrote:

why the hell make a leet gamers board using an intel processor and chipset.. Seems kinda oxymoronic if you ask me.

Don't worry, they'll have an NF4 based as well.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19290
14 Oct 2004 ~ 11:32am Gobbles

EQuito wrote:

Don't worry, they'll have an NF4 based as well.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19290

Now that sounds like a leet gamers board. Lets hope the NF4 releases better then the NF3 150 did.

G.
15 Oct 2004 ~ 8:04pm keto

primesuspect wrote:

Abit reveals DUMBEST HARDWARE NAME EVER

Oh, did you hear about the new AMD MIGHTYMORPHIN POW3R1337 processors too?

OMFG!!!@! L1NK! LINK?????????
15 Oct 2004 ~ 9:16pm danball1976 Its a Intel P4 board, of what use is that to me? (I only swing AMD)
17 Oct 2004 ~ 6:08pm McBain

Thrax wrote:

USB -> Serial converter. Windows 2K and XP can emulate serial connections via USB.

Not very effectively. Unfortuantely, for alot of embedded design stuff, unless you know *nix, windows 98 has to be used because it allows you to easily write to hardware without adding an assload of bloatware libraries, hence making pretty useless from a cost perspective. So you need windows 98, which doesn't support USB --> serial afaik. So for people like me....I need serial ports.
4 Dec 2004 ~ 5:50am Huff N Puff Lot of bad Comments about Fatal 1 Ty And its understandable. AMD claims the Title but Fatal 1 beets the best gamers in the world with Intel Chipset and CPU who is No.1 looks like Intel to me.