Since the launch of the Athlon 64 platform, however, we reviewed every new motherboard with definite skepticism mixed with hope that our expectations would not only be met, but surpassed. The CPU street prices kept falling and today are even affordable for average unpretentious users. Hell, AMD?s prices are once again even below Intel?s.
There are now numerous motherboards for the Athlon 64, but not a single one of them was good for what?s on the mind of every other reader of this site. Overclocking was a forbidden word for the manufacturers and we could only try to squeeze a further Megahertz or two from each newer motherboard in vain efforts to justify the cost of our expensive CPUs. We managed to lay hands on practically every motherboard model that showed up on the Bulgarian market. To some of them we held on for a while; others we got rid of very quickly, and would not hear of them again. But when we got our hand on the Abit motherboard ...
Abit KV8Pro the motherboard for Overclockers
Abit KV8Pro the motherboard for Overclockers