Compare Abit KV8-MAX3 Motherboard to Abit KN8 Ultra Motherboard

The KV8-MAX3 is equipped with features never even conceived for a desktop motherboard. For users who require MAXimum security and storage, the ABIT MAX3 features 6 channel serial ATA RAID with the Silicon Image 4-port serial ATA RAID controller plus native 2 channel support, as well as ABIT's latest ABIT Engineered feature: Secure IDE. But what is most exciting about MAX3 is that it features the most advanced cooling technology ever seen before on a motherboard - OTES. Less

HyperTransport technology, which delivers a 2GHz effective system bus, is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link designed to increase the communication speed between integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and networking and telecommunications equipment up to 48 times faster than some existing technologies. Allows multi-disk designs to be set up for maximum performance (RAID 0), for data protection (RAID 1), or for a combination of both performance and protection (RAID 0+1) The industry's fastest Gigabit Ethernet performance eliminates network bottlenecks and improves overall system efficiency and performance. NVIDIA Firewall protects your PC from intruders by filtering unauthorized traffic. NVIDIA Firewall will also utilize the NVIDIA ActiveArmor secure networking engine. S/PDIF allows you to connect to today's hottest digital audio devices without signal loss. With sampling rates of up to 96 kilo-samples per second, music and games come alive. Less