FIC, otherwise known as First International Computers, manufactures its AZ11E board to run with either Duron or Athlon processors. It's specified as suitable for use with the fastest 1.2GHz AMD chip using the 200MHz or 266MHz FSB.

The overall build quality is high; the board has onboard audio and UltraDMA/ATA-100 connections, plus an extra USB header for a couple of additional ports. All sound and game port connections are on the back panel as you'd expect, and it has five PCI slots and a 4x AGP slot for graphics cards. In common with most of the other boards reviewed here, the AZ11E doesn't have a 16-bit ISA slot, so your legacy hardware will have to be discarded.

VIA's popular KT133 chipset is in use here again, giving the board support for a maximum memory count of 1.5GB via three DIMM sockets. Twin dual-channel IDE controllers provide support for UltraDMA/ATA-100 drives, and there's integrated four channel audio thanks to another VIA component, the 686A south bridge chip.

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This is not a particularly exciting board, since it lacks any outstanding features, but it's a good entry-level board for those looking to build a basic (yet still very fast) system.

For the full specification of this board, see the Features table.