Date 2003-12-13
Provider: DFI
Author: BigMan
Editor: Princess Ammie
DFI Nf2 Ultra Infinity motherboard
DFI�s series of motherboards are now well known by now as they are starting to get very big in the motherboard business.. Tonite we are having a look at the Nforce 2 board from DFI called Nf2 Ultra. DFI was kind enough to send me this board to be reviewedLet's have a look how this board can overclock and perform.
About DFI:
DFI is an international IT expert based in Taiwan locating our Headquarters in Hsi-Chih City. DFI was established in 1981 under Mr. Y.C. Lu's principal. Dedicating to servicing customer with high technology, DFI has been earning a worldwide reputation for quality owing much to the continuing support from our customers, suppliers and affiliates as well as our own efforts over the past twenty years. With more than 20 years of computer product developing and manufacturing, our team of highly skilled engineers helps DFI position ourselves as the standard setter of price-performance solution in the manufacturing and marketing of computer products.DFI offers a complete line-up of advanced motherboards as well as graphics solutions and Applied Computing Platforms to meet the expanding needs of the IT market. DFI also co-develops with IntelR and 3rd party developers for the latest technology on IT solution. These relationships lead customers to adopt DFI products with confidence.
Supports dual channel memory interface
Supports up to 3GB memory (unbuffered DIMM)
Supports PC1600 (DDR200), PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and PC3200 (DDR400)
DDR SDRAM DIMM, 2.5V type
Three 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
BIOS
Award BIOS, Windows� 95/98/2000/ME/XP Plug and Play compatible
Genie BIOS provides:
- CPU/DRAM/AGP overclocking
- CPU/AGP/DRAM/Chipset overvoltage
4Mbit flash memory
CMOS Reloaded
Power Management
Supports ACPI STR (Suspend to RAM) function
Wake-On-Events include:
- Wake-On-PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse
- Wake-On-USB
- Wake-On-Ring (external modem)
- Wake-On-LAN
- RTC timer to power-on the system
AC power failure recovery
Hardware Monitor
Monitors CPU/system temperature
Monitors �12V/5V/3.3V/VBAT(V)/5VSB(V) voltages
Monitors CPU/chassis fan speed
Read back capability that displays temperature, voltage and fan speed
CPU Temperature Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up
Audio
Realtek ALC650 AC'97 2.2 S/PDIF extension compliant codec
Supports Microsoft� DirectSound/DirectSound 3D
AC�97 supported with full duplex, independent sample rate converter for audio recording and playback
S/PDIF-in/out interface
6-channel audio output
LAN
nVIDIA� nForce2 MCP-T and ICS1893 Phy chips
Integrated IEEE 802.3, 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX compatible PHY
Full duplex support at both 10 and 100 Mbps
PCI IDE
Supports ATA/33, ATA/66, ATA/100 and ATA/133 hard drives
UDMA Modes 3, 4, 5 and 6 Enhanced IDE (datatransfer rate up to 133MB/sec.)
SATA IDE with RAID
Silicon Image Sil3114 PCI to Serial ATA controller
Supports four SATA (Serial ATA) interfaces which are compliant with SATA 1.0
specification (1.5Gbps interface)
Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1
IEEE 1394
nVIDIA� nForce2 MCP-T and Agere FW803 Phy chips
Supports three 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports
AGP
Supports AGP 8x up to 2132MB/sec. and AGP 4x up to 1066MB/sec. bandwidth
for 3D graphics applications
Rear Panel I/O Ports
1 PS/2 mouse port
1 PS/2 keyboard port
1 DB-9 serial port
1 DB-25 parallel port
4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports
1 RJ45 LAN port
2 S/PDIF RCA jacks (S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out)
3 audio jacks: line-out, line-in and mic-in
2 audio jacks for center/bass and rear out
I/O Connectors
1 connector for 2 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports
3 connectors for 3 external IEEE 1394 ports
1 front audio connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks
2 internal audio connectors (AUX-in and CD-in)
1 S/PDIF connector for optical cable connection
1 connector for IrDA interface
4 Serial ATA connectors
2 IDE connectors
1 floppy connector
2 ATX power supply connectors
3 fan connectors for CPU fan, chassis fan and 2nd fan
Expansion Slots
1 AGP slot that supports 8x/4x AGP
5 PCI slots
PCB
4 layers, ATX form factor
30.5cm (12") x 24.5cm (9.64")
The product
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DFI always makes nice boxes for their products. They put alot of effort into them to make them look attractive as this one is as you can see. On the back we have some specifications and features that can be found on the motherboard itself. The specifications above shows that this board has several nice features and should be a really good board. But will it be good performance wise?
