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We recently previewed the Abit AB9-Pro motherboard based on the P965 chipset and were impressed with its stock performance even though we had difficulty overclocking it with the early production BIOS. Abit has released a new performance oriented BIOS and we will be revisiting its performance in our upcoming P965 shootout. In the meantime Abit has been busily preparing their flagship Intel motherboard based on the 975X chipset. Abit recently provided us with a production level AW9D-MAX motherboard along with a beta BIOS that is undergoing final quality assurance and performance testing prior to going into production next week. We were hoping to have a production level BIOS available in time for a full review of the board against its competition from ASUS, DFI, Foxconn, and MSI. However, due to amount of comments and emails we received asking about the performance of the board we decided to provide a short preview utilizing a subset of our current benchmark suite.

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Buy new computer equipment and peripherals with an eye on the future.

Computers are in transition: Technologies such as the PCI Express bus and all-digital video connectors are supplanting their predecessors. More important, Microsoft’s new Windows Vista is right around the corner. Anyone who’s thinking of buying PC hardware in the next few months must keep an eye on the future.

Dell Inc., the world’s largest maker of computers, may shift significant part of its business to microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices, an analyst said in a report. The initial batch of AMD central processing units (CPUs) acquired by Dell will be up to 2 million, the report from Bank of America reportedly said.

“Dell has ordered between 1 million and 1.2 million desktop computers with Advanced Micro Devices processors and about 800 thousand notebooks,” Bank of America financial analyst Sumit Dhanda said in a report, a story at Cnet News.com claims.