Date 2005-07-03
Provider: Gigabyte
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala

Gigabyte Ga-K8nxp-sli motherboard

SLI motherboards are getting more and more popular as the video card prices go down, we got a sample from Gigabyte called K8nxp-sli which we have had on our test bench and thoroughly tested it with both benchmarking and overclocking. If you are in the market for something like this then you should pay attention to this review to see how these motherboards really perform.

About Gigabyte:
The success of Giga-Byte Technology has exceeded all expectations. With the commitment to upgrading the IT industry, Giga-Byte Technology built up a solid foundation upon the envisioned industry scale. These efforts have earned Giga-Byte Technology an eminent and widespread reputation, as well as the focus of attention and accomplishment around the world. With the respectable performance of motherboard business and global reputation along with worldwide brand awareness, Giga-Byte Technology is making steady progress to become one of the best total IT product providers in the world.

Specifications:

Processor:

Socket 939 supports AMD Athlon64/ 64 FX

Chipset:

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI MCPs (media and communication processors)
Super I/O: ITE IT8712 chip

Integrated peripherials:

Silicon Image sil 3114 controller
T.I. IEEE1394b controller
Marvell 8053 Gigabit Ethernet controller
CICADA8201 Gigabit LAN PHY chip
Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec

Memory:

Type: Dual channel DDR400/ 333/ 266 -184pin
Max capacity: Up to 4GB by 4 DIMM slots

Internal I/O Connectors:

8 x Serial ATA connector (4 X Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s)
2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
1 x FDD connector
3 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 6 ports)
2 x IEEE 1394b connectors (supports 3 ports)
3 x cooling fan pin headers
CD in

Expansion Slots:

2 x PCI-Express X 16 slot, supports two PCI-Express interface Graphics cards with SLI mode
2 x PCI-Express X 1 slots
2 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)

Rear Panel I/O:

4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
2 x RJ45 ports
Audio (4 x Line-out/ 1 x Line-in/ 1 x MIC) connector
Coaxial S/PDIF input/ output function
PS/2 Keyboard/ Mouse
1 x COM port
1 x LPT

CPU/AGP/DIMM setting:

CPU HT / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
PCI-ExpessX16 Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS

Power:

ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector
Power-off by Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP shut down and switch

Form Factor:

ATX form factor
30.5 x 24.4 cm

H/W Monitoring:

System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, CPU voltage, and fan speed

BIOS:

2 X 4M bit flash ROM, Award BIOS

Other Features:

NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU support
Dual Power System (DPS)
802.11g compatible Wireless adapter
Support NVIDIA Firewall
Norton Internet Security
Download Center
XpressTM Installation
XpressTM Recovery
Q-FlashTM
@BIOSTM

The board:

Thank you Gigabyte for making this review possible

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