abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review :: Bundle

04-11-2007 · Category: Motherboards

By Benjamin Sun
  • abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard
  • Driver CD
  • English Manual
  • Jumper Setting Label
  • IDE cable
  • FDD cable
  • SATA cable x4
  • IO bracket
  • HDMI to DVI Connector

The bundle for the abit F-190HD motherboard is typical of motherboard bundles in most ways. The included four SATA cables allow the new owner to fully use the SATA ports on the board. The HDMI to DVI adapter is useful as you can attach a LCD monitor with DVI connection to that port.


abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review Hardware bundle

Hardware bundle

abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review Driver CD and manual

Driver CD and manual


The software bundle on the abit board is typical fare for the mainstream this is targeting. abit's high end boards all have F6 floppy disks to facilitate installation of SATA disk drives. This board does not come with the floppy, but requires you to either make the disk beforehand or make it by booting off the driver CD.


abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review Driver CD

Driver CD

abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review abit utility

abit utility

abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review Temperature

Temperature

abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review Fan speed

Fan speed


The driver CD contains the drivers for the motherboard. The driver CD is split into Drivers, Manual, Utility and abit Utility. One thing to note is that the onboard graphics card requires Microsoft .Net to operate its CCC control panel. The abit Utility area has abit's EQ utility which monitors Temperature, Voltage and Fan Speeds of the system.


abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review CCC

CCC

abit Fatal1ty F-I90HD Motherboard Review AVIVO

AVIVO


ATI's Xpress 1250 chipset uses their Catalyst Control Center as a Control Panel applet. ATI releases a new Catalyst driver every month or so meaning that if there's a game issue they will likely fix that issue within a driver release or two. The 1250 supports ATI's AVIVO technology, which is their video playback software.