If you are in the market for a top end mainboard for your shiny new Intel Core 2 CPU, abit has one of the best you will find in the abit AW9D-Max. This board is built from the ground up with overclocking in mind and is a top performer.

In addition to the mainboard itself abit also includes just about every accessory you could need with the board including a Toslink cable and seven SATA cables. Full featured is an understatement with this board. Review excerpt: "There is good reason that abit included seven SATA cables with this board; it has seven SATA ports that support RAID. Four of the SATA 3Gbps connectors are handled by the Intel ICH7R southbridge, and don’t need drivers installed to operate during OS install. That means no hitting F6 and going through that trouble to get your Windows system up and running." Read the full review here.