AOPEN – AOpen AK89 Max nForce3-150 Motherboard Review

VR Zone Hardware has reviewed the AOpen AK89 Max (nForce3-150) motherboard, giving it a VRZ Editor’s Choice Award – plus points are performance and stability, good board features and software bundle, decent overclockability, and a reasonable price tag:

AOpen is always in the forefront in delivering new boards based on the latest technology especially in their Intel boards offering. Although this time AOpen lags a little behind other board manufacturer in bringing an Athlon 64 board out in the market but nonetheless they have their AK89 Max board out now which we will be looking at today. AOpen AK89 Max comes in a cool white box with nice accessories and sports a classic glossy black PCB. The board features support for DDR400 up to 3GB, IEEE1394, 6 Channel Audio with S/PDIF, 4 x Serial ATA 150 ports with RAID functionality, Gigabit LAN and 6 USB 2.0 ports. AOpen R&D Team also develop some useful and unique features such as Open Jukebox Player, Dr. Voice II, Ez Restore, Ez WinFlash, Ez Clock, SilenTek, Vivid BIOS, Win BIOS, Die Hard BIOS II and a Self Powered PCI slot. In this article, we will go in details their board features, BIOS features, performance as well as their overclockability.

AOpen AK89 Max board is best recommended for consumers who want good performance and stability, good board features and software bundle, decent overclockability, and best of all at a reasonable price tag.. ..There is no doubt about AK89 Max stability since it has been always the top priority for AOpen. AOpen uses good quality capacitors to deliver very stable CPU current, a Self Powered PCI slot for more stable operation for high end PCI cards, Die-Hard BIOS (Dual BIOS) for backup and recovery and many others. AOpen AK89 Max is certainly a fast board and is even faster than ABIT K8V-Max3 or EPoX 8HDA3+ board as revealed in the gaming benchmarks. AOpen has definitely tweaked this board to its best before releasing into the market.

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AOpen AK89 Max Review