Overclockers Online has checking out the ABIT AT7 MAX
Apart from the USB and FireWire ports, the board only has one AGP slot and three PCI slots. At first, I though this was way too little, but if you look at the onboard stuff on the AT7, you just know those three PCI slots will do just fine. ABIT has decided to equip the AT7 MAX with onboard 6-channel sound with optical out, onboard 10/100Mbit LAN and an onboard HPT374 RAID controller supporting up to eight IDE hard drives! Previous boards were fitted with the HPT372 controller which only supported 4 IDE hard drives, but with High Point releasing the HP374, ABIT decided to jump the wagon and offer this great controller to its end users. When combining both the onboard IDE controller and the RAID controller, you can use up to 12 IDE devices ... now I don't know about you, but for my needs this is certainly overkillRead more! But I like overkill as it is always good to have something up your sleeve
