Application:

 Pentium 4 LGA775 Motherboard

Provided by:

 DFI

Available at:

 Newegg

MSRP:

$168.00

Availability:

Now

Review by:

 Paul

Edited by:

 Scott

Review date:

 October 23rd, 2004
   
 

     DFI has really made a name for themselves in the enthusiast market.  A few years ago DFI was an unknown to most of us.  The LANParty and Infinity series boards have really put this company on the market as a major player in performance boards.  It's great to see a manufacturer cater to the needs of the overclocker and gamer.  Other boards offer overclocking and some are very good at it, but DFI takes it up a notch by including some really kewl features just for us geeks that go to LAN parties.  Let's check this baby out and see how it performs.

I remember the first LANParty box I saw had what looked like Mt. Dew cans all around the computer.  You can see that DFI really knows the gamer and that the preferred drink is now Bawls.  Nothing keeps you gaming for hours like Bawls.  Wow! I think I just did a commercial.

Specification

CPU
 
  • Intel® Pentium® 4 Prescott processor -
        Hyper-Threading Technology - 533MT/s and
        800MT/s (200MHz) system bus interface
  • Socket LGA 775 (LAN Grid Array)
    		•
     
      Chipset
     
  • Intel® 875P chipset - Intel® 82875P Memory
        Controller Hub (MCH) Supports Intel®
        Performance Acceleration Technology (PAT)
        Intel® 82801ER I/O Controller Hub (ICH5R)
    		•
     
      Memory
     
  • Four 184-pin DDR DIMM sockets - Each
        channel supports 2 DIMM sockets
  • Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory
        interface
  • Supports up to 4GB system memory
  • Supports ECC/non-ECC x8 and x16 DIMMs
  • Supports up to 512Mb DRAM densities
  • Supports unbuffered DIMMs
    		•
     
      BIOS
     
  • Award BIOS
  • CMOS Reloaded
  • CPU/DRAM overclocking
  • CPU/DIMM/AGP overvoltage
  • 4Mbit flash memory
    		•
     
      Power Management
     
  • Supports ACPI STR (Suspend to RAM)
        function
  • Wake-On-Events include: - Wake-On-PS/2
        Keyboard/Mouse - Wake-On-USB
        Keyboard/Mouse - 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 and
        overheat alarm
  • Monitors
        ±12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/1.5V AGP
        voltages
  • Monitors the speed of the CPU fan and
        system fan
  • CPU Overheat Protection function monitors
        CPU temperature and fan during system
        boot-up - automatic shutdown upon system
        overheat
    		•
     
      Audio
     
  • 6-channel audio CODEC
  • S/PDIF-in/out interface
    •  
      LAN
     
  • Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit PCI LAN controller
  • Full duplex support at 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps
        and 1Gbps
    		•
     
      IDE
     
  • Supports up to UltraDMA 100Mbps hard
        drives
    		•
     
      Serial ATA with RAID
     
  • Supports two SATA (Serial ATA) interfaces
        which are compliant with SATA 1.0
        specification (1.5Gbps interface)
  • Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1
    		•
     
      IEEE 1394
     
  • Supports two 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports
    		•
     
      Rear Panel I/O Ports
     
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
  • 1 mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
  • 2 S/PDIF RCA jacks (S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF
        out)
  • 1 DB-25 parallel port
  • 1 DB-9 serial port
  • 1 IEEE 1394 port
  • 1 RJ45 LAN port
  • 4 USB 2.0 ports
  • Line-in, line-out and mic-in jacks
    		•
     
      I/O Connectors
     
  • 2 connectors for 4 additional external USB
         2.0 ports
  • 1 IEEE 1394 connector
  • 1 front audio connector for external line-out
        and mic-in jacks
  • 1 CD-in internal audio connector
  • 1 S/PDIF connector for optical cable
        connection
  • 1 15-pin game connector
  • 1 IR connector
  • 2 Serial ATA connectors
  • 2 IDE connectors
  • 1 floppy connector
  • 1 24-pin ATX power connector
  • 1 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 1 front panel connector
  • 3 fan connectors
  • 1 diagnostic LED connector for external 4
        diagnostic LEDs display
  • EZ touch switches (power switch and reset
        switch)
    		•
     
      Expansion Slots
     
  • 1 AGP 8x/4x slot
  • 4 PCI slots
    •  
      PCB
     
  • ATX form factor
  • 30.5cm (12.01") x 24.5cm (9.65")

    •  

    Features

    • Marvell Gigabit LAN
    • SATA RAID
    • Dual DDR400
    • Genie BIOS
    • New FrontX
    • EZ-on / EZ-touch on board power switch
    • UV kits