abit AW9D-MAX Mainboard Review
abit engineers paid special attention to the cooling solutions for different mainboard components. This seems to be one of the greatest
strengths of this product and one of the most evident advantages. The chipset cooling is provided by the Silent OTES 2 system – a noiseless solution made of passive heatsinks and heatpipes. The heatpipes drive the heat to the heatsink covering half of the MOSFET transistors of the four-phase CPU voltage regulator. The other half of transistors hasn’t been forgotten, and is provided with a few smaller heatsinks to ensure proper cooling. All heatsinks on the mainboard are made of aluminum, but the small South Bridge heatsink features copper base.
