Abit announces Fatal1ty AA8 motherboards

Posted on Wednesday, October 13 2004 @ 18:18 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

In an exclusive interview regarding Abit’s new gaming server, Scott Thirlwell, Abit director of marketing, released more details about the Fatal1ty AA8. He explained that the board, which has been the subject of much speculation on the Internet’s message boards, will go into mass production on Friday (October 15) and he expects the first boards to reach store shelves by the end of this month.

For the development of the Fatal1ty AA8, the real driving force behind the board was Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel, according to Thirlwell. Fatal1ty is touted as the world’s top professional gamer, with his latest victory at the first DOOM3 Championship held during ID Software’s Quakecon in August. Fatal1ty and his team have worked with Abit’s engineers in Taiwan and at the company’s factory in China

Abit Fatal1ty AA8 specifications
CPU Socket	Intel Pentium 4 LGA775
Form factor	ATX (305 x 245 mm)
Chipset	Intel 925 series, ICH6R Express chipset
Memory	Four 240-pin DIMM sockets (unbuffered non-ECC DIMM), supporting dual channel DDR2-533/400 (max. 4GB)
Onboard RAID	Intel Matrix storage technology on four Serial ATA ports, RAID 0/1, SATA AHCI, providing native command queuing and native hot plug
Audio	On-board, 7.1- channel Intel high-definition audio. Digital audio interface supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF
Video	PCI Express (PCIe) ×16 graphics
Network	One GbE Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100/1000M Ethernet, one 10/100 LAN controller
Other onboard I/O	2 x PCIe ×1 slots 2 x PCI slots 1 x floppy port, supporting up to 2.88MB drive 1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33 connector 2 x USB 2.0 headers, 4 x USB 2.0 ports 2 x IEEE 1394 headers, 1 x IEEE 1394 port 1 x FP-audio header 1 x CD-in

More info and photos fo the Fatal1ty motherboards at DigiTimes

Abit announces Fatal1ty AA8 motherboards

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