AOpen AK86-L

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Why all this positioning? Simply because the AOpen AK86-L is the perfect board for the new Socket 754 reality. It is currently selling for below $100 on-line, and that certainly qualifies the AK86-L as a good value. Value, however, is more than price, and here, the AOpen AK86-L delivers like no board that we have evaluated to this point. Enthusiasts love a well-priced motherboard that they can take to the moon in performance, and the AOpen certainly qualifies here. With the latest 1.06M BIOS, you get a full assortment of tweaking options - including lower multipliers. Memory timing options are outstanding, and unlike most K8T800 boards that we have tested, the AOpen AK86-L is just as happy as you could want at 2-2-2-6 timings at DDR400. This makes the AK86-L a superb choice as a motherboard for that screaming Athlon 64 system. It even includes Gigabit LAN and SATA RAID in a board selling for around $100. AOpen even shows fixed AGP/PCI settings in the BIOS, something we have not seen on a VIA chipset board, but frankly, we won't fully believe that until we have measured it for ourselves. Whatever the reasons, and however it is set up, the AK86-L was an outstanding overclocker in our tests - with a processor that has been nothing special in the overclocking department.