Abit shows off Nvidia Nforce5

ALTHOUGH THE COMPANY is currently being taken over by USI Corporation with a the board meeting taking place in Taiwan during CeBIT, the engineers aren't sleeping. The R&D department is working at full tilt in order to have all of its products ready in time for AMD Socket AM2/Intel Conroe launches. While we toured the booth, we picked up a very interesting product:

Although the Green Goblin does not want to talk about unannounced products, every CeBIT visitor can see what Nforce5 is all about.

The Fatal1ty AN9 32X is currently at an early stage of development, but the specifications should be fairly similair to the final product. AN9 32X is equipped with classical north bridge and south bridge chipset combination. The north bridge is codenamed the MCP55XE, while the SouthBridge chip is known as C51XE. The retail name for the chipset is The Nforce 590.

The board supports two PCIe x16 lanes, 1x PCIe x1, single UltraATA-133 and six SATA-II slots, hardware RAID-5 and most important - HD audio codec. Abit will continue to use its AudioMAX riser-card, so the sound connectors won't be placed on already crowded PCB.

The launch? June 6th of 2006, of course. µ