Abit AX8 S939 PCIe mobo pic

Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
edited September 2004 in Hardware
Abit AX8 Socket 939 PCIe K9T890 chipset

Comments

  • madmatmadmat
    edited September 2004
    Looks pretty nice...I'm not a huge fan of that orangish brownish solder mask though.
    That is deffinitely one huge number of pins, wow.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I like:

    Native SATA, PCIE, power connectors all on the left away from the socket,

    Dislike:

    Caps are hideously close to the socket retention bracket, no mounting holes for a larger heatsink (which would hit the caps!).
  • madmatmadmat
    edited September 2004
    Wouldn't a screw on style sink use the two holes that the retention bracket uses to mount to the motherboard? And once the bracket was gone wouldn't that allow for a marginally larger sink seeings as the stock one would fit inside the recess on the bracket? I'm talking about the length gained on the ends where the screws are, not on width.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    nice! hatsoff!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    good:
    s939
    Abit (hopefully this thing will OC like the NF7-S did)
    PCI-E

    bad:
    no AGP
    potentially too many PCI-E x1, not enough PCI slots
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    bad:
    no AGP
    potentially too many PCI-E x1, not enough PCI slots

    To me these are also 'good' points.

    I'm ready, man. I'm totally ready to get rid of PCI, AGP, IDE, FDD, and COM/Serial ports from motherboards. I don't need no stinking legacy on my next motherboard!
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    Yeah, well you don't have a $600 Wacom Intuos 2 serial tablet (yes, I could probably get an adapter for it, but that's not the point...), a $150 PS-2 KVM switch, and a $425 AGP 6800GT either.

    You may be ready to get rid of all your legacy stuff, but I (and a lot of other people) aren't. Floppy drives are still useful, unless the board can boot from a USB drive; I have yet to see any PCI-E x1 devices period. So you know... it depends on your position. As far as I'm concerned, a more gradual transition, like the one we saw with ISA --> PCI, is in order.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2004
    so dont buy a new machine. honestly, if you have the old one working with all your old stuff, why would you want to mix that with new technology.

    keep your old agp card on your old agp board, and dont upgrade until you're ready to go all the way.

    after all, you of all people are one to complain, you have several computers with all of the components you're "losing" still working fine
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    It's the principle of it all :p
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