AOPEN AX45-4D Max is the first SiS 655 board we review at OCworkbench. As this is a board with a beta bios, performance of this board is mixed, with good scores in certain categories like the CCWS, BWS. In terms of 3D performance, it somehow needs some fine tuning.

Features-wise, this board has some nice features like the Diehard bios, ezrestore, silent bios and Silent tek. There is also 1394 and voice diagnostics. Installation is easy but we had to "hunt down" the +12v connector. It is camouflaged around capacitors. The BIOS is not really finalised and we would expect future BIOS to introduce fix pci/agp settings as the current bios seems to only supply a divider of 3.

Overclocking wise, this board has 1Mhz stepping and also an independent PCI/AGP setting if you wish to keep your FSB at 133(533) and just overclock your PCI and AGP bus. Voltage adjustments are also available for Vcore, VDIMM, VAGP. 

Overall, it is a good board based on the latest dual channel ddr chipset. If the price is right and you won't be pairing it with a P4 3.06G Hyperthreading CPU, this board might be a good choice for you.

* The benchmarks done so far are based on a beta bios supplied by AOPEN. We expect the final BIOS will improve the performance further and solve some of the problems we faced during testing.

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Pros 好处:

• Overclocking features

• DieHard BIOS

• EzRestore

• Silent Bios & Silent Tek

• 5.1 Channel audio

• 6 x USB 2.0 

• 10/100 LAN

• 1394

Cons 坏处:

• No SATA

• No RAID support

Ratings

Here are my ratings out of 10 stars.

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