Known for setting new industry standards, ABIT Computer Corporation introduced several hardware innovations during 2002, including its OTES VGA cooling system, and the feature-packed MAX motherboard series. Top hardware sites Hexus , The Inquirer and OC Workbench recently recognized the cream of the crop, awarding the best products with comprehensive reviews. With outstanding features and impressive performance, the IT7-MAX2 won Best Mainboard of 2002 at Hexus, the Silver Award at The Inquirer and Best P4 Overclocking Board at OC Workbench!

ABIT's IT7-MAX Series won top honors over at Hexus: "The ABIT MAX Series has brought a lot of innovation to the scene. The IT7 Max brought i845E/PE to the masses in a hugely tweakable motherboard...MAX2 got things even more right arguably with the return of the missing PS/2 ports making it even more accessible. The only enthusiasts choice for those running DDR on a Pentium 4 this year."

Over at The Inquirer, the IT7-MAX2 v2.0 snags the Silver Award for Best Mainboard of 2002: "The ABIT IT7-MAX2 v2.0, board based on the i845PE Intel chipset, brings nice integrated sound, RAID controllers, a LAN card, an LED display and many other nice things. ABIT had the guts to remove legacy things such as parallel port and stuff like that making this board look unique and completely different than the others."

And at OC Workbench, their annual Readers Award Poll for Best Overclocking P4 platform has the ABIT IT7 MAX2 beating all other P4 competition by a huge 14% margin!
The King of Intel overclocking generally has been hitting an FSB of 180+ for most end-users, depending on system specs. In recent testing, with standard cooling, the IT7 MAX2 v 2.0 hit a mammoth 220 FSB! The competition struggles for stability while overclocked, while ABIT breaks records! This 220 FSB OC was achieved running standard benchmark programs in a stable environment for an extended period of time. Check the screen shot for the real story!
 

Motherboard of the Year
The IT7 MAX2 v 2.0 offers users the most feature-rich high performance computing platform on the market with 10 USB 2.0 ports, 3 IEEE 1394 ports, ABIT Serillel ATA RAID, onboard LAN, 6-Channel Audio and of course ABIT Softmenu™. Not only is it the king of the hill when it comes to overclocking, but the IT7MAX2 is the only legacy-free P4 platform available, looking ahead while others play catch-up.

The IT7 MAX2 Owns Performance
Made for performance, the IT7 MAX2 v 2.0 is designed to be tweaked and pushed to the limit. Only ABIT uses a 4 phase power solution, while others make do with 2 phase power. For future generations of CPUs, 4 phase power is needed. If your board doesn’t offer 4 phase power, don’t expect to upgrade your PC to the next generation of CPUs.With ABIT’s unique 4 phase power solution the IT7 MAX2 is solid as a rock and capable of huge overclocks on the FSB. How huge? Why don’t you go to work on an IT7 MAX2 and try it out for yourself?

To Vote the IT7-MAX2 as 'Motherboard of the Year', go to: http://www.ocworkbench.com/poll/socket478.php

ABIT Computer Corporation designs and sells a complete family of award-winning mainboards and multimedia products that support industry-leading technology and provide leading quality and performance for system integration of computer components supporting a broad range of PC applications, such as e-commerce, e-business, entertainment and education. Corporate headquarters are located in Taiwan. For more information, visit the Company's web site at http://www.abit.com.tw

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