Just see the pictures....

New cooling system for the mosfet and others.......

The amazing IC7-G, becomes the close to perfection IC7-G Max 3....

Abit is really walking in the right path......

Hope to get this devil mobo next year....

wel.. that will surely catches a lot more dusts.

The board still has 5 of 3 pin power connectors on the mobo (2 for northbridge fan and the power system fan.)

6 SATA conectors, 2 from intel southbridge, 4 from (we don´t know) with RAID...

Best ever

Check for more... http://www.digital-daily.com/motherb...-max3-preview/

Looks pretty nice, but I don't think I like the new cooling system... reminds me of the old FX graphics cards with the monstrous cooling system. This would probably just get dirty and look even crapier... in my opinion. I'm gonna wait and see what real benefits it supposedly has.

Not even a pararrel port...

[sarcasm]It's crap.[/sarcasm]

6 SATA conectors, 2 from intel southbridge, 4 from (we don´t know) with RAID...

I can bet it's going to be a silicon image chip.

Oh ye of little faith. When has abit ever let us overclockers down. I am pretty excited. That board looks awesome. Can't wait to see the numbers.

Slavearm

Looks great except for that crappy, plastic, probably sounds like a vacuum, cooling thing.

There is no guard on that fan? Abit - Think of the children!
Hey Dad,...Whats that do?....No Son,...don't stick your finger in ther.....ZZZDDDZZZZththtsshth........AHHHHHHHHH!

[n3rd]

drools .............

i want one !!!!

paired up with an 2.4c

Ok I admit it, that is pretty sexy, though it might get dirty and look bad (tha plastic wind tunnel that is)...

well this kind of board is certainly not for me..

[RiStaR]

This definitely needs a fan guard... but it's perfect for a phase-change or watercooled system.... the hotspots are gotten rid off with just one fan ... just wonder if the fan is replaceable... else what happens when it dies?!

Originally posted by RiStaR
This definitely needs a fan guard... but it's perfect for a phase-change or watercooled system.... the hotspots are gotten rid off with just one fan ... just wonder if the fan is replaceable... else what happens when it dies?!

/Me considers that even the crappiest fan can run 24/7 for a year.

/Me thinks if she'd like to keep a motherboard for a year.

/Me doesn't give a damn if it's replaceable or not, anyway she'd might rip it off and add a bigger fan with an adapter on that thing.

[RiStaR]

Originally posted by Grace
/Me considers that even the crappiest fan can run 24/7 for a year.

/Me thinks if she'd like to keep a motherboard for a year.

/Me doesn't give a damn if it's replaceable or not, anyway she'd might rip it off and add a bigger fan with an adapter on that thing.

Fans don't last that well here it seems... I give my fans the most 6 mths (For the 50mm and below fans)

Ok point noted for the switching (Cos sadly i'm like that too lol)

Third point... lol have to ditto with that hahaha
:p

If you got another fan of the same size, it will replace the original crystal one perfectly...