AOpen has been transforming their image as just another OEM through their enthusiast and high end offerings. Having reviewed both AK77 and the AK79 on the AMD side of AOpen's product line, we take a look at the AX4C Max II today, a board based on the Intel 875P Canterwood chipset, the undisputed speed king on the Intel side. The Max series from AOpen is their feature rich configuration where they put everything onto the board. The feature set on the AX4C Max II is very similar to that of the AK77 600 Max. Without further ado, let us take a look at the basic specs for the AX4C-
- CPU Socket Type - Socket 478 Intel P4 800 mhz
- Chipset - Intel 875O Canterwood
- Memory Slots - 4 184-pin DDR DIMM slots
- Dual Channel DDR400/333 (4 Gig Max)
- Expansion Slots - 1 AGP, 6 PCI
- Onboard SATA - 4 SATA ports, Serial ATA RAID (0, 1, 0+1), Promise SATA 150 controller
- Onboard IDE - 2 ATA 100
- Onboard Audio - Realtek AC'97 Codec
- Onboard USB - 6 USB 2 backpanel, 2 additional on included external bracket
- Onboard Firewire - 2 via external bracket
- LAN - Gigabit Lan via Broadcom PCI LAN chip