Abit Socket M2 Motherboard

Mike Howes 25 Feb, 2006 at 5:57am ET Article published in Tech

AOA Forums gives us an early peek of one of the first nForce 5 DDR-2 motherboards designed around the new AMD M2 socket.

Now that M2 will shortly replace 939, will 939 become the low budget line, or will it dissapear into the night, leaving the much older 754 as the alternative?

This ABit board, supporting DDR2-1066 memory, faster than any stock Intel board today, PCI-Express x32(2 x16) and having 6 SATA-II RAID / Dual GigE, definitely looks like it is going to shine(at least particular models).

Source: Techspot

Comments

25 Feb 2006 ~ 7:10am Mt_Goat It's freak'n ECS purple! :wow2:

Must go before I puke.
25 Feb 2006 ~ 7:33am Deicist http://www.aoaforums.com/frontpage/index.php

Quoted from the aoaforums :
"On 2-23-2006 we published a picture of what we believed to be a prototype of a new Abit NF5 motherboard. It now appears that picture was nothing more than a doctored photograph of the MSI K9N prototype that was previewed over at gathering.tweakers.net. If you look closely at the second picture shown there, and compare it to our picture, you will see that the two motherboards are in fact identical.

Our apologies for all those who started salivating for nothing. The picture was presented in good faith, both on our part and on the part of the member who posted it. All we can say is that sometimes, in an effort to be ahead of the curve on breaking news, mistakes are made. When they are made and we discover them, we will make sure that we come clean."
25 Feb 2006 ~ 8:21am Winga Thanks for bringing that to our attention Deicist.

I have removed the picture from the news posts. Thanks
25 Feb 2006 ~ 9:15am lemonlime lol, I think the fact that there are purple flowers on the PCB says something about its authenticity too. I'm sure DFI is going to stick to UV reactive petunias though
25 Feb 2006 ~ 1:00pm PirateNinja That should have been immedietly recognized as doctored. There is so much wrong with it.
25 Feb 2006 ~ 4:56pm Thrax LOLOLOL. I just got to this thread.

Such a hideous edit.