hmm one more thing.. why abit temperature so high aa? on water uguru reported my sandy's temp at 44 idle.. but my hardcano 13 shows the temp is 28.. last time with my DFI my sandy idle at 33C only..

is there any bios or version of uguru that fix this temperature problem?

If only you are not obsessed perhaps you can spot the grass might be greener on the other side also.

ya lor...when i bench my temp go up until 80c on the guru panel....but my aerogate show 44c only....summore very tension when pc alwiz restart...arghhhh..stupid thermal proctection.....

u better bring back to the place u buy it

ya lor...when i bench my temp go up until 80c on the guru panel....but my aerogate show 44c only....summore very tension when pc alwiz restart...arghhhh..stupid thermal proctection.....

i can confirm it is not running that hot...is the bios reading that is wrong....haiyah...where a bios editor when u need one??....

is this a well known issue? hopefully abit will release a bios that have accurate temp reading..

not only this...a lot more...from HD to GFX SLI incompabilities....my god what happend to Abit???And their forum got tons of questions and a few answers....

http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-297-10.htm
Go f him lah

So you decided to go with an SLI setup for your next rig. Probably going to pair it up with a 3000+ Venice, which can be had for under $150 at such places as Newegg.com. Obviously you're intending on overclocking that Venice to the absolute limits. To take it there, you're going to need some capable memory, like OCZ's new Enhanced Latency PC4800, with timings as low as 2.5-4-4-10 at 600 MHz. A gig of that goes for $255 at Newegg.com.

Now you need a motherboard.. What are your choices? The Asus A8N SLI is absolutely everywhere. But can it OC like a b****? Does it have absolute full control over fan speeds? How about integrated temperature and voltage monitoring like you've never seen before? Nope.

That leaves the DFI Lanparty boards. But it is bloated with extra features you don't need, driving the price up. And again, it doesn't have uGuru.

That leaves you with Abit. They have two boards for you at this level: The "Fatal1ty" AN8 SLI, and the AN8 SLI we looked at today.

From here, you have to decide if the $100 price premium is worth it for a uGuru panel, which is pretty damn cool, but not "almost twice the price" cool.

The AN8 SLI. That's the board for you; no other will do. No other board does such a fantastic job of giving you exactly what you need, and absolutely nothing you don't.

If you can't tell by now, I am blown away by uGuru. Its implementation is almost perfect, and offers you more benefit than things like extra ethernet controllers and PCI based RAID controllers you'll never want to use.

The AN8 did pretty much everything else right too. Performance is top notch, layout is nearly perfect, and our sample was solid as a rock in weeks of testing.

The Fatal1ty AN8 costs about $50 less than its Pentium 4-bearing counterpart, the AA8XE, but that still rings it in at around $200. That's a lot to pay for a motherboard by anyone's standard. Still, if it provides a significant boost in performance, it's worth it, right?

If you don't consider overclocking a critical factor, this is one of the best Athlon 64 boards we've tested. It's packed with good features, and extremely easy to work with. The benchmarks are the highest we've seen for an Athlon 64 FX-55. Will similar new chipset motherboards for AMD's CPUs deliver similar performance? We'll be taking a look at quite a few of them over the coming weeks, and it will be interesting to see how they stack up. Compared with the last-generation chipsets, it's a real winner.

That said, we were extremely disappointed to find that we could hardly overclock our FX-55 chip at all. It's hard to know exactly where to place the blame for this—on the CPU, its cooling, or the motherboard. Still, for a motherboard that emphasizes overclocking, our lack of success is definitely bad news. The features and utilities for juicing up your CPU are fantastic, so this could be a great board for those users. We just didn't get there in our tests. At this price, this is obviously not a board for everyday users. If you're a hard-core enthusiast, we have no problem recommending it. The benchmark scores are fantastic, and the nForce 4 Ultra chipset delivers fantastic features. The slot layout is highly unusual and could be bad or good depending on what you plan to install, so plan accordingly.

The LanParty line of motherboards from DFI have always catered to the kind of PC enthusiast who likes to really push his components to the limit, and this one is no exception. It's not necessarily designed for ease of use, but for tweaking, tuning, poking, and prodding your components until you eke out every last bit of performance. The UV sensitive slots are a bit of extra eye candy for the case modders out there, but the real star of the show is the BIOS. DFI has done an exceptional job with adding the kind of BIOS features that hardcore PC builders really appreciate. The built-in MemTest86 and user-selectable backup BIOS banks are great ideas. Really extreme overclockers will get a kick out of pushing their expensive RAM up to 4 volts.

Having said that, we find ourselves mystified about a couple of things. Why is DFI stuck in three-years-ago mode with no web-based, Windows BIOS update software? Why on earth would they put a x4 PCIe slot on a consumer motherboard? Why make the user change six large sets of jumper blocks to enable dual-graphics mode? Why put the analog audio jacks on a removable bracket when it's going to go in the back I/O panel anyway? None of these things are really problems, per se, but they're curious design decisions that we feel might be keeping the board from its full potential.

If you're a hardcore overclocker, you've almost certainly heard of DFI's LanParty series before. You should know that this model continues the legacy of adding features to help you push your hardware beyond its intended specifications. It's also not outrageously expensive, and in fact costs a little less than many other nForce 4 Ultra motherboards on the market. If you don't plan on tweaking out your system, you may be better off with a board that includes more x1 PCIe slots, but there's still a lot to like here. Dual gigabit Ethernet and six USB 2.0 ports on the back I/O panel are features anyone can enjoy.

hhehehe...i got both board...so i can 'say' or 'preach' in here....

antonio, you better keep it to yourself because I see no light at the end of the tunnel. Just talk about what is good that Abit can offer and provided if you have something negative to say, please do  it in proper manner  , otherwise it will end up in a flame war. I'm sure mods (not me cos I'm too lenient) and staffs are not too keen with that. 

Check out newest bios 17
temp issue is fix...
now it is working like champ

Bios Release Date 21/7/2005?