This ain't right.

Pro = High reliability
Con = Low-quality fans

You can have one or the other, but not both. Why?

Low quality fans are not reliable to begin with, then how can one say the mobo is of high reliability? Those 40mm fans are part of the mobo to begin with, are they not?...When you say reliability, its the whole mobo, right? See how this is contradictory?

I don't like this mobo for one reason...Too many small 40mm fans. (too many points of failure).

Any knowledgeable enthusiast knows that small 40mm fans do NOT last long. Their bearings (know matter if ball or sleeve type), wear down quick and sooner or later, those fans with stuffed bearings will make terrible noises. (non-techie people, will, and do freak out as to what's making those noises).

What Abit should do is use cross-flow fans at low voltaged or thermally controlled. You only require two...One for the RAM and one for VRMs at the back.

The chipset shouldn't use an active cooler. Its much better to use a heatsink that is low-profile with a very large surface area. (larger surface area offers better cooling). Or if it has allowable space, a taller heatsink is also feasible.

Effectively, I've increased the reliability tremendously.

(I've reduced 5 low quality fans to 2 longer lasting cross-flow ones. And very likely, I've also reduced the potential points of failure and the noise.)

I really don't get what Abit is thinking using 5 fans...What a waste of time and effort. (Filled with marketing bullshit...OTES?...What a joke)...I wouldn't pay a dime for a product like this.

Fatal1ty => Your wallet.

nearly all NF4 boards seem to use active cooling at this point, its fairly normal that Abit has choosen active cooling to go along with all the others

Its normal to have 5 fans for a mobo?

mobo looks sweet, and worth the editor's choice enthusiast product. many fans do worry me though.

PS. when are we getting a Radeon Xpress 200 for A64 PCIe mobo review??

Memory voltage only to 2.8? CPU voltage only to 1.85... this DEFINATELY is not an overclocker's board.

A well researched and written expose

why doesn't it show benchmarks against intel? obviously speaking, most competition leave out the predescessors.

pathetic board, same goes for the SLI version, LED lights on the board, whats the point? damn things will dim quickly and eventually die, its not like u can replace them, so get rid of them. chipset, generally ok but why put a massive plate in front of the fan and restrict airflow so badly? remove it. vdimm is good on the SLI board, 3.5v. OTES system is left somewhat to be desired though, not to mention the fact a single fan would of been sufficent as the bottom fan is basically centerd fine, no need for the top fan. Then there is the BIOS, the board has trouble with 1T, isnt fully ACPI compatible, the creative x-fi will not work properly due to a bios bug as well and the lack of any kind of general bios updates and support for this board make it somewhat undesireable, bottom line, buy a epox or dfi

Fans are fans its not the manufacturer of the motherboards problem.

A.) get an aluminum case
B.) drill airholes in top and install 1 120 MM fan.
C.)install one 120MM fan or 2 1.8-2.6A 80MM fans at the back.
D.)water/alcohol cool the CPU and case.

O.k I need to comment on fanBoy.

There are 3 3pin fan conn. on this board so, I take the CPU fan drill air holes and mounting holes to the top of the aluminum case (much quiter than 80's more CFM also) i take the CPU sytem fan and mount it to a front intake. then i take the 3rd 3pin and one more 120mm and either drill out the side panel or drill out frame and put it as and exhaust were the 80 would have been, it's a little getto but in the end you have what you need. I then use water/alcohol cooling for my CPU and case with the cooler mounted on top front. I have an external HDD/CPU thermal gage array to monitor CPU temp.

This motherboard... is really very good!!! Abit make the best mother's!!!

Every piece of hardware has downsides, having read this review, and seeing the items downs, i believe its very well worth it, since the minor design flaws are fixable probably at a low price, and the price height is reasonable, thanks to this review I now know what I want :)

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