ABIT AG8-3rd Eye - motherboard - ATX - i915P

Advantages: New chipset, and processor socket.
Disadvantages: Isn't as advanced as it's made out

...For a new LGA775 Pentium 4 motherboard boasting raft of high-speed technological highlights, Abit's AG8 has a remarkably short and demure name. While I'm not overly averse to product names using the words 'hyper', 'ultra', 'mega' and 'superbadass', it's rare to see a new product that isn't shouting about it's various innovations. The AG8 supports the new Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUs, so the most immediate noticable aspect of it's appearnce is the huge buckle-like 'socket' itself. The AG8 uses the Intel 915P chip for the Northbridge, bt it is buried under a chunky heatsink with a 40mm fan attached to it. The 915 is the cutdown version 925, as the 865 was the cutdown version of the 875P, and the Pvariant denotes a lack of on-board graphics. While this isn't a serious omission, the AG8 also lacks the next iteration of on-board sound, Intel... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent for Overclocking
Disadvantages: Needed a bios update

...I recently purchased the ABIT AV8 3rd EYE Motherboard and an Athlon 64 - 3000 (Winchester core) Processor. I purchased the ABIT Motherboard due to the fact my last motherboard was ABIT and I was totally satisfied with it. When I got the AV8 set it all up with the new processor, I was let down because it did not work. As the processor was the latest version, the motherboard was unable to identify it, thus would not work. After purchasing a new bios chip for the board it fired up straight away. So i installed windows and away i went. I was totally amazed with the speed of the system and was so in awe of the new 3rd eye display. For those of you who don't know, the 3rd eye is an LCD display which is attached directly to the motherboard. It is run by a seperate processor on the motherboard, and can monitor upto 5 fans (connected... Read review

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Advantages: Solid, good features, reliable,
Disadvantages: Price

...Express Chipset - Intel 915P / Intel ICH6R Express Chipset - Supports Hi-Speed Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0) Flexible Memory - Four 184-pin DIMM sockets (Un-buffered Non-ECC DIMM) - Supports Dual channel DDR 400/333 (Max. 4GB) PCI Express x16 graphics - PCI Express x16 graphics delivers up to 8GB/s per direction for 3.5 times more bandwidth than AGP8X at 2.1GB/s PCI Express x1 I/O - PCI Express x1 I/O offers 500MB/s concurrently, over 3.5 times more bandwidth than PCI at 133MB/s SATA Matrix RAID - Four ports SATA 150 RAID 0/1, deliver higher performance and data protection - Supports SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug 6 Channel Audio - On board Theater-class 6 Channels Audio - Professional digital audio interface supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF In/Out IEEE 1394 - Supports 3 Ports IEEE... Read review

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