Through diligence, hard work, and by encouraging an environment of cooperation and constant innovation, ABIT has become a global motherboard provider. However, ABIT isn't just a... more
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A review by Mattlav on ABIT AN-M2 - motherboard - micro ATX - GeForce 7025 April 5th, 2008
Author's product rating:
Speed
Very fast
Ease of Installation
Excellent - very quick and easy
Stability
Very stable
Value For Money
Excellent
Advantages:
Cheap, Up to date, Loads of functions and features
Disadvantages:
Onboard Graphic uses sytem memory
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
I brought this motherborad for my custom built media centre pc about 3 months ago the specs are:
CPU - Designed for AMD® Socket AM2 Processors with 2000M T/s system bus using Hyper Transport Technology - AMD® Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
Chipset - NVIDIA® GeForce®7050PV/nForce 630a - Dual Head Display Controller Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability, with independent display controllers for one digital HDTV and one analog monitor.
Graphics - Integrated GeForce7 Series Shader model 3.0 DirectX9 graphics - Programmable PureVideo HD Video Processor
LAN - Gigabit Ethernet (Marvell 88E1116)
Audio - On board 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC (Realtek ALC888) - Auto Jack Sensing and optical S/P DIF Out
IEEE 1394 - Supports 2 Ports IEEE 1394 at 400Mb/s transfer rate (Texas Instruments Chip)
Serial ATA - 4 x SATA (RAID) 3 Gb/s - Supports SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5 and JBOD
Internal I/O - 1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88M B - 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 IDE Connector - 4 x USB 2.0 header (support 8 ports) - 4 x SATA 3Gb/s connector - 1 x IEEE1394 header - 1 x S/P DIF Out header
Expansion Slots - 1 x PCI-E X16 - 1 x PCI-E X1 - 2 x PCI
Back Panel I/O - 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse - 7.1 CH HD Audio connector (Front, Line-in, MIC-in, Center/Subwoofer, Surround, Rear Surround) - 4 x USB2.0, 1 x RJ-45 LAN Connector, 1 x 1394 - 1 x HDMI, 1 x D-Sub, 1 x S/P DIF Out
Form Factor - mATX form factor 244 x 244 mm - PCB Color: Blue
RoHS - 100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant
This motherboard is a very good cheap solution to a new pc or and upgrade. Abit have very good software and hardware and are a company you should trust i have been purchasing from abit for ages and i have never had any problems.
If you are wanting to build a decent stable and long lasting Media cnetre PC, then the abit AN-M2HD motherboard is a good purchase it sells for about £40-£50.
Inside the box you find: 4x Locking SATA cables The backing plat 1x abit driver CD 1x HDMI to DVI cable 1x PCI bracket with FireWire (small and large) and two USB connectors 1x floppy disc cable 1x IDE cable 1x Abit AN-M2HD
To bring power to this motherboard, you'll need a 24 pin ATX plug, and a 4 pin plug. Both of these sockets on the board are near the top.
The only down side i found with this Motherboard is that the onbord grphics uses sytem memory which is annoying and may slow it down.
ever since day one i have had video problems, it shuts down by its self, and now 8 months later it rebooted its self only to never start again!! it just beeps at me and never gets to any screen. i tried a new video card, then a new hard drive and still it just beeps at me and never boots. there is no abit support to help anywhere on the web that i can see......so tell me, do you really want a mmotherboard that doesnt offer any support and dies in less than a year? i wish i had never bought it.
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Networking: Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
Features
BIOS Features: SoftMenu
Hardware Features: AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Technology
Manufacturer's product description
Through diligence, hard work, and by encouraging an environment of cooperation and constant innovation, ABIT has become a global motherboard provider. However, ABIT isn't just a motherboard company. It also brings you the best in multimedia, peripheral cards, server technology, and barebones systems solutions. ABIT strives to develop products to meet your computing demands. PRODUCT FEATURES: Socket AM2; Nvidia Geforce7025/NF630a; 2GHz HT; Dual DDR2 800; PCI-E X16; SATA 3G RAID; Gigabit LAN; S/P DIF Out; 7.1 CH HD Audio; Dual Monitors Support (DVI & D-Sub); RoHS Compliant.
Expansion / connectivity
Expansion Slot(s):
1 processor - Socket AM2
1 PCI Express x16
1 PCI Express x1
2 PCI
4 memory - DIMM 240-pin
Storage Interfaces:
ATA-133 - connector(s): 1 x 40pin IDC
Serial ATA-300 - connector(s): 4 x 7pin Serial ATA - 4 Device(s) - RAID 0 / RAID 1 / RAID 0+1 / RAID 5 / JBOD
Interfaces:
1 x display / video - DVI-Analog/Digital - 29 pin combined DVI
1 x network - Ethernet 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T - RJ-45
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