Abit has made a repute over the years, as a constructor of top-character CPU board geared for high-functioning enthusiasts and uttermost overclockers. They've developed approximately extremely big productions in the past, similar the legendary BX6 and long-time preferred the TH7-II RAID, and the company goes forward to innovate today. In our tenure here, we've accepted a appear dozens of productions from Abit, and preserve for a few rare exclusions, they've all been very beneficial and meriting of condition. That's something we can't ever say about a few other CPU board producers.

Today, we're becoming to evaluate not one, but two CPU board from Abit, both grounded on NVIDIA's nForce four SLI chipset. 1st up, we accept the lead-of-the-line Fatal1ty AN8 SLI for the AMD platform, adopted up but the NI8 SLI for the Intel platform. The Fatal1ty AN8 SLI is directed foursquare at hardcore overclockers with its actively-cooled VRM and well prescribed BIOS and bundle. The NI8 SLI, while directed at a like audience, goes about things otherwise with its Q-OTES still chipset cooling and more inhibited accessory bundle.


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There's a lot to assure on the continuing pages, so let's acquire commenced.Abit packaged a slew of duplicates in with the Fatal1ty AN8 SLI. admitted with the board itself, we detected a custom I/O shield, an SLI switch card and bridge (and memory bracket), 4 locking SATA cables, a Molex-to-SATA power adapter, and attacked floppy and IDE cables. There was too a very finish user's manual, a immediate installation guide, and a sticker for a case in there as well, highlighting lots of the board's jumpers and headers.

Of course, device driver disks were admitted too, such as a floppy with RAID device driver, and a CD with chipset device driver and other classified utilities.The utilities that reside on the CD admit a few very utilitarian proprietary Abit applications, namely AbitEQ, OC Guru, FlashMenu, BlackBox and Guru Clock.