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Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports

Posted by timothy on from the but-only-the-newfangled-ports dept.

An enthusiastic reader submits: "Possibly the most innovative motherboard to be released in years, Abit's MAX series intends to dive headfirst into the next generation of computing, leaving legacy ports behind in their dust. Hardcoreware.net has the first full review of this board, which has support for 10 USB devices and 12 (YES, 12) IDE devices." I wish it had even more built-in USB ports, but six is a good start.

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  1. How about more firewire ports! by Ryu2 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It only has 2 firewire ports, which actually many motherboardss have these days.

    Not only is it the standard for digital video and still cameras nowadays, IEEE 1394 aka Firewire/iLink is rapidly eclipsing SCSI as the standard for high-speed external storage devices like hard drives and burners.

    Also, USB 2.0 is still not supported in Windows, but Firewire is.

    USB is nice, but more Firewire ports -- that would be appealing to me!

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