Abit's New Motherboard Lays On The Ports

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.

Comments

Re:Completely useless

[NineNine]

I don't even know what an AST Rampage is... All I know is I'm running a PII 250, and it works just fine. If you have to buy new parts because you can't make your old stuff work, sounds like you got some learning to do.

Re:Just in case the site gets /.ed

[daniel_isaacs]

Umm, yeah. I see myself upgrading my 100Mb home network sometime soon. . .

And better than 5.1 channel sound? Sure, but how many people really care about that?

Right now my 5 slots are occupied by a NIC (taken care of) a Live! (taken care of) a 1394 (taken care of) a 2940U2W (down to two slots) and an IDE RAID card (taken care of).

Hmm. Seems as though I have room to grow. Besides, we replace computers every two years anyway. You might have to upgrade the 1394 by then. But not much else. Jesus, I'd sell my soul for 10 USB ports.

Re:Just in case the site gets /.ed

[Geek In Training]

I hate integrated components. If they die, or if something faster/cooler/better comes out that doesn't leave me enough slots to upgrade...

Let's say you put in an Audigy in place of on-board sound.

And a PCI gigabit Ethernet NIC instead of the on-board 10/100.

And a GeForce4 in the AGP 4x slot.

You still have 10 USB ports, two firewire ports, 6 IDE headers (for 12 devices). You can put anything you want in that final PCI slot. Unless you're building a server or a videa-editing center with multiple PCI cards, you're going to be hard pressed to find a way to obsolete this board in the next 48 months.