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Representatives of Abit иСуїЎ corporation have told about parametres of perspective products Bark (Kevin Lai), territorial manager Abit Computer Corporation, and Nikolay Prokofiev, the Russian representative of company Abit Computer Corporation.

Announcements, for example, such models of the motherboards oriented to processors of Intel of Pentium 4, as Abit IT7-MAX2 (i845E), Abit BG7 (i845G), Abit BD7II-RAID (i845E), Abit BE7-RAID (i845PE), Abit SR-8X (SiS 645/963) have been presented .

Sharp discussion was called by the models which are not incorporating traditional PS/2 plugs, such as IT7 (i845E). During this discussion representatives Abit have admitted the fact of reserved response of the computer market on the initiative of refusal of PS/2 plugs and their changeover on USB as it has been made in models of series MAX. Really, far not all received after the lapse of some time the status of branch standards progressive undertakings have been enthusiastically met by potential users. It is enough to recollect implantation of instruction sets MMX and SSE, processing techniques of usage of system memory under the frajm-buffer the video resources integrated into chip sets (SMBA architecture - Shared Memory Buffer Architecture), USB and, of course, memories Rambus.

Unfortunately, even the most perspective ideas and products far win not at once the place put by it in the market and an appropriate recognition of potential consumers. The hard competition and objective laws of the market force corporations to adjust the schedules. For this reason Abit corporation has created a new line of motherboards MAX2 and has released the appropriate models oriented, by the way, as on processors of Intel of Pentium 4, and competing products AMD.

As an example of the bar of motherboards MAX2 it has been in detail considered Abit IT7-MAX2, oriented to Intel of Pentium 4 with frequency of the processor bus of 400/533 MHz. This card is created on the basis of a chip set i845Е. Besides, in the card support 2 Serial ATA 150 RAID, 2 ATA 133 (RAID), 2 ATA (100), 1 AGP 4X, 3 DDR DIMM, 4 PCI is carried out , and also six-channel resources Audio and, of course, PS/2 plugs (in MAX — USB) are realised 3 IEEE1394a, 10 USB 2.0, 1 RJ45 LAN . But if PS/2 plugs are traditional solution support Serial ATA is rather new solution in the architecture of motherboards.

For support of compatibility of perspective interface Serial ATA with becoming outdated ATA (IDE) Abit corporation offers the special adapters named Serillel. These adapters provide hooking up to Serial ATA plugs of arrangements ATA extended now. ROM/R/RW CD, similar CDs concern the given arrangements drives DVD, etc., as is known, widespread HDD .

For the extension of possibilities of motherboards Abit corporation arrangement Abit Media XP is offered. This arrangement fulfilled in konstruktive, providing installation in standard five inch bay of the computer. Presence in Abit Media XP plugs of popular interfaces of audio and video, and also the reader of the information from flesh-cards (CF, MS, SD) and in a remote control package (DU) facilitates usage of the computer as multifunctional multimedia centre  — PC home theatre environment.

But the described processing techniques and products do not settle perspective novelties of Abit corporation. The big attention of an audience has called the description of firm processing technique of cooling OTES (Outside Thermal Exhaust System). This processing technique is realised in Abit Siluro GeForce4 Ti4200 OTES videoadapters developed and released by Abit corporation.

Photo 5. Abit Siluro GeForce4 Ti4200 videoadapter

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