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.

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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.