The Unofficial Abit AN8 Ultra thread

[BoomAM]

as I pointed out alreadey. I am afraid that you don't want to admit it.

Admit what? That you made a cock up in your description of a chips capibility leading me to belive that you say that a PCI-E x3 slot is possible, when its technically not?

As for audio part, it's up to each person how interpret it. You don't have to explain such a trivial matter long.

Ah, so its trivial when the specifics of the platforms audio implementation made by me are right, but its not trivial when you think your right about something. I get it now.
:roll:
You amuse me. Im gonna leave it at that now. This discussion has worn itself out.

 

[renethx]

Originally posted by: BoomAM
Admit what? That you made a cock up in your description of a chips capibility leading me to belive that you say that a PCI-E x3 slot is possible, when its technically not?

That your statement

"PCI-E lanes, im sorry your wrong there, you cant have a 3 lane PCI-E slot. Of course, your not entirely clear there, so if you want to reword that bit, then we can decide if your incorrect or not. "

is wrong. It's completely beyond my understanding how you can't recoginize it. You seem to be retarded or seem to live in a different world with different logical thinkings from this world. If you feel that "I made a cock up in my description of a chips capibility leading you to belive that I say that a PCI-E x3 slot is possible, when its technically not" by reading

[*]Audio (HDA+AC'97 vs AC'97)
[*]PCI-E lanes (16x1+1x1 vs 16x1+1x3)

then I'm afraid the former applies to you.:disgust: Well, it seems that I totally wasted time ...

 

[d3lt4]

don't want to be the one to break up the argument but lets get back to subject. I don't think either of you is going to change your minds. So does the scythe ninja fit on one of these or not?

 

[renethx]

Sorry, folks in this thread. I just wanted to suggest to harobikes333 a passive cooling motherboard that could be an alternative to AN8 Ultra as it became hard to find in retail stores, but we went in a wrong direction unexpectedly...

 

[BoomAM]

Gotta love the maturity on this forum.
I aplaud d3lt4 for suggesting we get back on track.

 

[renethx]

AN8 series motherboards are officially discontinued in the ABIT USA site as of Jan 19, 2006.

AN8 Ultra "This product has been discontinued."

Discontinued Products

 

[oldyellowcat]

Abit listed x2 CPU's (toledo) are supported from bios 19, but what BISO version does the board come with?

I am going to order this board and 4400x2 CPU, is it going to at least boot so I can update the BIOS?

Certainly dont have an extra CPU floating around just to update bios ...
Thanks

 

[JackeL1]

i have an x2 4200+. i originally bought a refubished (never again) an8 fatal1ty sli. the board had issues and was returned. i then tried the regular an8 fatal1ty (no sli).....liked the board but lacked all the options i wanted. so i returned that one and got a new (not refurbed) an8 fatal1ty sli. that board had the overvolting problem and had to be rma'd back to abit for a replacement.

anyways.....my x2 4200+ booted up just fine on all 4 of those boards. the first board shipped with bios version 16. the next had version 13 and the last 2 both had versions 18.

 

[harobikes333]

abit going to close????

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: harobikes333
abit going to close????

Not per say.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=29&threadid=1788622&enterthread=y

They're getting a facelift after merging with another company.

 

[grahamh]

getting back on topic. Anyone using bios 20 ?

Opteron 170

voltage is a bit high but otherwise going well

 

[harobikes333]

What would the best abit board be for a 3800 X2... ? I don't plan on OCing until 3 years after warranty is off the CPU lol and even then I donno so... ya

 

[cr0ssfire]

I'd go with a board from the AN8 series, either the AN8-Ultra if you don't plan on using SLI or the AN8-SLI if you do. I think they're both nice, well-rounded boards; they're very overclockable, they've got a copper northbridge heatpipe, and they've got a Port 80 display for help in diagnosing problems. You also may want to pick up a Guru panel if you like its features. Newegg has them back in stock for now but the AN8 series has been discontinued so I don't expect their supply to stick around for too long. The only lingering issue I believe the AN8's have is that some have reported having issues with Dual-Core systems freezing with heavy USB usage - check out the ABIT forums and read up on that before you make any decision.

 

[tvdang7]

i jsut purchased a reburbed an8 ultra. ive read many problems about them on abit-forums about USB issues. is that on EVERY an8 ultra board or is it only on select few.? kinda scared right now. havent installed anyhting got 2 exams this week.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: tvdang7
is that on EVERY an8 ultra board or is it only on select few.?

mostly seems to affect people with X2s who are doing large file transfers using USB2.0

 

[tvdang7]

so that means........upgrading to an x2 is not going to happen on this board? and by large file transfers do u mean using a thumb drive? cuz i want to use my thumb drive!!!!

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: tvdang7
and by large file transfers do u mean using a thumb drive?

usually it seems to be several Gb but it seems to be people using external HDDs reporting it so whether it's an issue that also affects Flash memory ... .

 

[tvdang7]

ahh. shoulda went with the abit at8! owell ima be single core till summer so i hope when the time comes it goes smooth.

 

[Heidfirst]

worst comes to the worst buy a PCI USB card, they are cheap.

 

[tvdang7]

1 have 2 questions

1) do i need to install teh soundmax card even tho i have an audigy? can i just leave it in the box?

2)wtf is up with all the damn usb jumpers? do i need to do anything special to them?

 

[Heidfirst]

If you aren't going to use the Audiomax don't plug it in (just leave in the box) & don't load drivers for it.

The jumpers are there to disable power to the ports when the board is in standby should you so wish.
They are normally powered to allow for wake-on-keyboard or mouse but not everybody likes that.

 

[tvdang7]

just installed mine . refurbed board from newegg. came with bios 20 already loaded from previous owner i guess.

board installed and works GREAT! no problems others have YET.