Date: October 25th, 2004
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: Abit USA
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ABIT CORPORATE PROFILE

The brand name 'ABIT" has been a symbol of quality, performance, and stability for a long time. No matter where you are, you can find ABIT's products and the spirit our products have. It is a great honor for us to be one of the premier motherboard manufacturers in the world. Without every employee's hard work and outstanding teamwork, it is impossible for ABIT to achieve all this. ABIT has also had the help and support of great partners along the way.

Looking towards the future. ABIT will never be content only being a world-class motherboard manufacturer. We want to create new lifestyles and explore new IT innovations. That is why we created The MAX Series. True to its name, MAX has the functionality to allow you to maximize what the future has to offer. In addition to the motherboard market, we keep inventing new products and expanding our markets; our multimedia, server, and barebones systems are excellent examples of our goal for expansion. By making different types of products to fit all kinds of consumer tastes, we are able to make more consumers benefit from ABIT's spirit of quality and innovation.

PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

Being one of the most respected performance mainboard manufacturers currently on the market, ABIT has always offered high quality performance motherboards based on the latest chipsets with additional features not seen on any other motherboard. Over the past 2-3 years I have adopted an ABIT motherboard as the base for the Tweaknews testbed seeing that I always could reply on the abundant features and the rock solid stability. You could basically take the motherboard out of the problem equation and focus on other peripherals seeing the motherboards were always borderline bulletproof.

Take for example ABIT's Softmenu BIOS overclocking section which pioneered the age of overclocking thanks to the AMD Duron processor series along with the Abit KT7. Since then, every other BIOS based overclocking subsection has been based in some part off of what Abit started.

Not wanting to stagnate, Abit still wanted to improve on an already solid foundation by creating their own onboard uGuru chip which allows for windows based overclocking, fan,temperature and voltage monitoring and manipulation along with completely safe BIOS flashing. So in essence, they have taken an already simple overclocking motherboard and make it even simpler. Everything overclocking option you can change in the BIOS can be changed from your desktop.

Today I will be looking at ABIT's 925X Express based performance motherboard and put it up against Intel's fast stock 925X alternative and see how it hold up.