Introduction and Specifications

The Abit AB9 Pro Motherboard Is a feature laden P965 board, including no less than 9 Internal Sata 3Gb/s ports and one external 3Gb/s eSata port. Also rounding out a large feature list is Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Introduction


During Computex in Taipei this past summer, Intel officially unveiled their latest core logic solution, the 965 chipset.  While not targeted to replace the 975X chipset as the enthusiast platform of choice for Intel processors, the P965 chipset is making its way into enthusiast class motherboards such as this Abit AB9 Pro. One very significant change in the P965 chipset is that it no longer natively supports PATA. This leaves manufactures to Include PATA support via an additional add in controller. While I’m always a fan of phasing out old technology, I believe Intel jumped the gun on this one, as most optical drives available on the market today still feature a PATA interface.

The AB9 Pro has a well rounded feature list, at an affordable price point, which makes it a very capable mid range board.

Specifications (from Abit.com)

CPU

Support Intel Core 2 Duo Pentium® & Pentium® D processors with1066/800MHz FSB

Support Intel® 2006FMB Conroe CPU

 

Chipset

Intel® P965 / ICH8R Chipset

Front Side Bus

1066/800MHz FSB

Memory

4 X 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB

Supports Dual channel DDR2 800/667/533 Un-buffered Non-ECC memory

 

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI-E X16

2 x PCI-E X1

2 x PCI

 

Serial ATA

6 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Intel® ICH8R support Intel® Matrix Storage Tech(AHCI & RAID 0/1/5 /10)

2 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by JMicron® JMB363 support up to 0,1,0+1,JBOD RAID function

1 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Silicon Image 3132 to 0,1,0+1,JBOD RAID function

1 x SATA 3Gb/s offer by Silicon Image 3132



LAN

On board Dual PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller supports 10/100/ 1000M Ethernet

Audio

On board 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC

Supports auto jack sensing and optical S/PDIF Out

 

Internal I/O

1 x Floppy Port supports up to 2.88 MB

1 x Ultra DMA 100/66/33 IDE connector

9 x SATA 3Gb/s connector

3 x USB header (support 6 ports)

1 x FP-Audio, 1 x CD-In

 

Back Panel I/O

1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x PS/2 Mouse

Abit Silent OTES™

1 x S/P DIF In, 1 x S/P DIF Out,

1 x eSATA

7.1 CH Audio connector (Front, Line-in, MIC-in, Center/Subwoofer, Surround, Rear Surround)

4 x USB 2.0, 2 x RJ-45 LAN connector

 

RoHS

100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant

Form Factor

ATX form factor 305 x 245mm

PCB Color: Orange

 

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