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Abit AN-M2 NVIEW Motherboard Reviews

Written by Administrator, on 19-07-2007 15:17

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Abit AN-M2 is a socket AM2 motherboard with on-board video based on GeForce 7025-630a chipset from nVidia, competing directly in both price and functionalities with motherboards based on AMD 690V and AMD 690G, thus targeted to digital entertainment PCs. Let’s take a look on the performance and features of Abit AN-M2.

NVidia released recently two new chipsets with integrated graphics, GeForce 7050 and GeForce 7025. The main difference between the two is the support for HDMI and PureVideo on GeForce 7050, features not present on GeForce 7025. PureVideo is the name give by nVidia to their set of 2D enhancements, like video de-interlacing. This feature is known on the AMD/ATI world as Avivo.

Features :

Socket: AM2.
Chipset: nVidia GeForce 7025/nForce 630a.
Super I/O: Winbond W83627DHG
Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port.
Serial IDE: Four SATA-300 ports controlled by the chipset supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5.
USB: Ten USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and six available thru I/O brackets that don’t come with the motherboard).
Firewire (IEEE 1394a): No.
On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with Realtek ALC888 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 96 KHz sampling rate for the inputs and up to 192 KHz sampling rate for the outputs, 90 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 97 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
On-board video: Yes, produced by GeForce 7025.
On-board LAN: Yes, Gigabit Ethernet (1,000 Mbps) controlled by the chipset together with a Marvel 88E1116 chip to make the physical layer interface.
Buzzer: Yes.
Power supply: ATX12V v2.x (24-pin).
Slots: One x16 PCI Express, one x1 PCI Express and two PCI slots.
Memory: Four DDR2-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-800/PC2-6400).
Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: 1 CD.
Programs that come with this motherboard: Motherboard drivers and utilities.
Extra features: None.
More Information: http://www.uabit.com
Average price in the US*: USD 80.00