Review Motherboard AB9 PRO 965P
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During Computex Taipei in the summer past, Intel has officially unveiled their latest fundamental solution, 965 chipset. Although not being targeted to replace the 975X chipset as the platform of choice for enthusiastic Intel processors, the P965 chipset makes its way into the motherboards of this class as enthusiastic Abit AB9 Pro.
A very significant change is that the P965 chipset natively supports over PATA. It starts the fabrications Include support via a complementary PATA controller.
The AB9 Pro has a list of well-rounded feature at a price point accessible, which makes it among the most capable on the market.
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Features from the site Abit.com
CPU:
- Support Intel Core 2 Duo & Pentium ® Pentium ® D processors FSB with1066/800MHz
- Support Intel ® Conroe CPU 2006FMB
Chipset:
- Intel ® P965 / ICH8R Chipset
Front side bus:
- 1066/800MHz FSB
Memory:
- 4 X 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB
Expansion slot:
- 1 x PCI-E X16
- 2 x PCI-E X1
- 2 x PCI
Serial ATA:
- 6 x SATA 3Gb / s offer by Intel ® ICH8R supporting Intel ® Matrix Storage Tech (AHCI & RAID 0/1/5 / 10)
- 2 x> SATA 3Gb / s offer by JMicron ® JMB363 media up to 0,1,0 +1, JBOD RAID function
- 1 x SATA 3Gb / s offer by Silicon Image 3132 to 0,1,0 +1, JBOD RAID function
- 1 x SATA 3Gb / s offer by Silicon Image 3132
LAN:
- On board Dual PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100 / 1000M Ethernet
Audio:
- On board 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC
- Supports auto jack sensing and optical S / PDIF Out
Internl I / O:
- 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88 MB
- 1 x Ultra DMA 100/66/33 IDE connector
- 9 x SATA 3Gb / s connector
- 3 x USB header (support 6 ports)
- 1 x FP-Audio, 1 x CD-In
Back Panel I / O:
- 1 x PS / 2 Keyboard, 1 x PS / 2 Mouse
- Abit Silent Otesa "¢
- 1 x S / P DIF In, 1 x S / P DIF Out
- 1 x eSATA
- 7.1 CH Audio connector (Front, Line-in, MIC-in, Center / Subwoofer, Surround, Rear Surround)
- 4 x USB 2.0, 2 x RJ-45 LAN connector
RoHS
- 100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant
Form Factor:
- ATX form factor 305 x 245mm
- PCB Color: Orange
