DFI LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR (Motherboards: AMD Athlon 64) by DFI -- FiringSquad Hardware Info & Web Reviews

Description:

LANPARTY nF4 SLI-DR exclusive features

SLi graphics card bridge

Karajan Audio(Theater like7.1 /8ch supported)

Dual Gigabit LAN

nF4 chipset supported Serial ATA(3Gb/s)

100% Japanese Capacitors

UV sensitive slots

UV kits(Round Cables & Cable sleeving bundled)

New FrontX panel

PC Transpo

EZ-on / EZ-touch onboard switch button

RAID(with nVIDIA nVRAID)

nVIDIA nTune(embedded overclocking solution)

nVIDIA ActiveArmor
(Embedded hardware firewall & network solution)

CMOS reloaded®

All New Genie BIOS

Specifications
CPU
AMD Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64/Sempron Socket 939

Chipset
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
- Supports NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface)

Front Side Bus
2000MT/s HyperTransport interface

Memory
Four 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets
Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface
Supports up to 4GB system memory
Supports DDR266, DDR333 and DDR400 DDR SDRAM DIMM

SLI / Single VGA Mode
SLI mode
- 2 SLI-ready graphics cards (use identical cards) on the PCI Express x16 slots.
- The graphics cards are connected via the SLI bridge.
- The bandwidth of each slot is x8; when the graphics cards are connected via the SLI bridge, it runs at x16 bandwidth.
Single VGA mode
- 1 PCI Express graphics card on the PCIE1 slot will run at x16 bandwidth.
- The other PCI Express x16 slot (PCIE4) will run at x2 bandwidth.

BIOS
Award BIOS
CMOS Reloaded
CPU/DRAM overclocking
CPU/DRAM/Chipset 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-LAN
- RTC timer to power-on the system
AC power failure recovery

Hardware Monitor
Monitors CPU/system/chipset temperature
Monitors 12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/Vchipset/Vdram voltages
Monitors the speed of the CPU fan, Fan 2 and chipset fan
CPU Overheat Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up

Audio
Karajan audio module
- Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC
- 6 audio jacks
- 1 CD-in connector
- 1 front audio connector
S/PDIF-in/out interface

LAN
Dual Gigabit LAN - Vitesse VSC8201 Gigabit Phy and Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit PCI
Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and
802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards

IDE
nForce4 chip supports two IDE connectors that allows connecting up to four UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives
NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA
RAID 0 and RAID 1

Serial ATA with RAID
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the nForce4 chip
- SATA speed up to 3Gb/s
- RAID 0 and RAID 1
- NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and

Parallel ATA
Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip
- SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s
- RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5

IEEE 1394
VIA VT6307
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)
Karajan audio module (6 audio jacks)
1 IEEE 1394 port
2 RJ45 LAN ports
6 USB 2.0/1.1 ports

I/O Connectors
2 connectors for 4 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports
1 connector for 1 external IEEE 1394 port
1 connector for 1 external serial port
1 front audio connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks (on the Karajan audio module)
1 CD-in internal audio connector (on the Karajan audio module)
1 S/PDIF connector for optical cable connection
1 IR connector
8 Serial ATA connectors
2 IDE connectors
1 floppy connector
1 24-pin ATX power connector
1 4-pin ATX 12V power connector
2 4-pin 5V/12V power connectors (FDD-type and HDD type)
1 front panel connector
5 fan connectors
4 diagnostic LEDs
1 diagnostic LED connector for external 4 diagnostic LEDs display
EZ touch switches (power switch and reset switch)

Expansion Slots
2 PCI Express x16 slots
1 PCI Express x1 slot
1 PCI Express x4 slot
2 PCI slots

PCB
ATX form factor
24cm (9.45") x 30.5cm (12")

All specifications above are subject to change without prior notice.

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