PC Stats has posted an Abit IT7 MAX2 Rev2 i845PE Motherboard review

Abit stunned the world in March of 2002 when it announced the "To the MAX" line of motherboards. Manufacturers have been talking about getting rid of the legacy ports on motherboards for a long time but it was Abit which took the initiative and actually did, well just that. Their original AT7 MAX (KT333) and IT7 MAX (i845E) were quite revolutionary boards. Gone were the Serial, Parallel and PS/2 ports, instead replaced by small army of high speed USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 jacks. It seems that Abit may have been moving a bit too fast for most consumers though as many in the hardware community complained about the removal of the legacy PS/2 ports. Abit has always been a company to listen to the end user and they did indeed rehash the MAX-series to create the AT7 MAX2 (KT400) and IT7 MAX2 (i845E) with PS/2 ports (but still without serial and parallel). After Intel released the i845PE chipset Abit redid their flagship Intel motherboard once again, calling it the Abit IT7 MAX2 Rev2. I'm going to be a spoiler here, the IT7 MAX2 Rev2 is easily the best i845 based motherboard I have used!

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