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The FIC AN11 Stealth is built on a four layer black PCB sizing in at 9.8" x 12" in the standard ATX form factor and is immediately eye catching because of its cool color. The board is laid out quite well with all the connectors in the appropriate places for easy hook-up of the system cables.
Based on the VIA KT266A chipset the AN11 supports up to 3GB of PC1600/2100 DDR SDRAM memory and the entire line of Socket based Athlon/Duron/XP CPUs from AMD. Finding an appropriate processor should not pose a problem. With prices of AMD CPU's falling this is a good time to buy AMD.
There is not adequate room around the ZIF Socket to allow for many of the larger heatsink fan combinations because of capacitors located in both corners. This also limits your overclocking ability as better fans mean better cooling performance, which leads to more stable overclocking results.
One nice thing about the board is the North Bridge active cooling which lends a hand in keeping the system running stable since it is basically the spinal cord of your computer and can use the extra cooling. There are two USB ports located on the rear I/O port and a pair of headers on the board allowing a total of four USB ports by using the included USB bracket.
You can adjust the FSB for different CPUs and overclocking but the features included in the BIOS are not very overclocker inclined and leave a bit to be desired for the enthusiast in me. In the BIOS you can monitor your systems performance and make some feature enhanced changes depending on your hardware.
In the BIOS you get system feature options such as WOL (Wake On LAN) and modem ring on along with the BIOS Guardian an anti-virus program that protests your BIOS from viruses. The board has a keyboard or mouse wakeup feature that only works for the sleep mode state but not for a cold system boot.
The AN11 also comes equipped with the latest NOVUS features for better system control. These features include the Easy Key, which provides instant keyboard access to the BIOS for custom adjustments to the Clock and Default settings and LogoGenie, which allows you to create your own customized logo to be displayed during system boot up.
Having only five PCI slots is okay for some boards but this one should have had six instead of the completely useless CNR slot because no products are even available yet for it in the retail market. This is about the worst thing I can complain about on this board, as it is just so meaningless of a slot for the end user.
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fic an-11 an11
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VIA VT8366A / VIA VT8233
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5PCI/1AGP/1 useless CNR... 2 IDE/Floppy/up to 4 USB 1.1
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