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Chaintech VNF4 Ultra ZENITH VE
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2 43284 07-31-2006
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100% of reviewers $110.00 9.5



Description: nforce4 based motherboard with 4 SATA2 ports, 2 IDE ports and floppy connection. Features nvidia's sound (intel810 based ac97), nvidia gigabit ethernet (with firewall) and socket 939 technology.

# PCI Express x16 port for PCI Express graphics card
# Two PCI Express x1 ports
# Three 32bit PCI slots (v2.3 compliant)
#Hot-swap capability, allowing disks to be changed without powering down the system.
#Supports total 10 USB2.0 ports with High-Speed Device @480 Mb/s Transfer Rates
* Temperature sensing for CPU and system
* Fan speed monitoring and control for CPU and system

Great motherboard with excellent support from nvidia and their drivers. Perfect for the price too (overclocking is wonderful)
Keywords: Chaintech Zenith VNF4 nforce4 nforce nvidia 939
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804
Chipset: Nvidia's Nforce4
Connection Type: Rear panel I/O ports
* PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard port
* 25-pin D-Sub female Parallel port
* Two 9-pin D-Sub male Serial ports
* Four USB ports and one RJ45 connector
* 6-port Audio Jack for 7.1-Channel and S/PDIF output

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Old 05-17-2005, 04:45 PM   #1
TravisOSF
 
Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Fedora 8, RHEL 3,4,5, Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 215

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $110.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11-6mdk
Distribution: Mandrive LE 2005



Installed flawlessly with both Mandrake 10.1 and Mandriva LE 2005. With Ubuntu and Fedora Core 3 you must use a verbose/text based install, and there were a couple hoops to jump through. But it is possible that it will work fine with them, I just needed it up right away and Mandriva worked great.

The ethernet and sound are supported out of the box with the 2.6.11 kernel, but I still used nvidia's newer drivers from www.nvidia.com

I also upgraded the sound card to a SBLive! because I needed teamspeak to work with Enemy Territory and I could not get them to both work at the same time. (Mainly teamspeaks fault for using OSS)

All in all a great board and I recommend it to anyone who wants stability and features!
 
Old 07-31-2006, 02:50 PM   #2
Zmaster115
 
Registered: Jul 2003
Distribution: openSuse 10.3 x64
Posts: 28

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: Suse 10


Flawless on Suse 10.
 




  



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