While this is in general a nice board, Abit’s implementation of μGuru has resulted in a board that has some issues overclocking, and doesn’t work at all with many of our favorite overclocking tools (although Alex Van Kamm has managed to get it more or less working with MBM, in spite of Abit's best efforts to the contrary). This wouldn’t be so bad, except that the tools that Abit provides are crap, and Abit have no desire to publish the information necessary for other people to write utilities that work and have publicly stated as much (see this thread on Abit's forums ). Not all of the BIOS options work properly (‘OC on the fly’ and disabling the CPU Fan alarm). As a result, I cannot honestly recommend this board to an enthusiast, which is where this board is squarely aimed. If you are not an enthusiast, there are other boards on the market that perform as well with similar feature sets, don’t have the headaches, and cost less.

Note: This article was originaly written in March 2004, and the board I received had version 10 of the BIOS. It is now late August 2004. I have upgraded both the BIOS and the drivers to the latest version as of this writing (BIOS version 15, nVidia Unified Driver version 4.27). The problems I mention elsewhere in this article still exist.

I would like to thank Allan and Áedán for their input on this review. They helped me take this article from rough draft to something that was worthy of being published.

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