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CPU:
• Supports 64-bit AMD® Opteron™, Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core, Athlon™ 64 FX, Athlon™ 64 processor (Socket 939)
• Supports up to 4800+ or higher CPU
• Supports AMD® Cool'n'Quiet technology
Chipset
• NVIDIA® GeForce nForce4 SLI x16 SPP(C51D) Chipset
- HyperTransport link to the AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64X2/ Athlon 64 CPU
- HyperTransport supporting speed up to 1GHz (2000MT/s)
- Supports 1 PCI Express x16 interface
• NVIDIA® nForce4 SLI x16 MCP(nForce4 SLI) Chipset
- Supports 1 PCI Express x16/ 2 PCI Express x1/ 1 PCI Express x2 connection
- Two independent SATA controllers, for four drives
- Dual Fast ATA-133 IDE controllers
- IEEE802.3 NVIDIA MAC for 1000BASE-T
Main Memory:
• Supports dual channel DDR 266/333/400, using four 184-pin DDR DIMMs.
• Supports a maximum memory size up to 4GB.
• Supports 2.6V DDR SDRAM DIMM.
Slots:
• Supports two PCI Express x16 slot (supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Supports two PCI Express x1 slots (support PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Supports 1 PCI Express x4 slot interface, supports PCI Express x2 transfer rate
(supports PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant)
• Two 32-bit v2.3 Master PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface).
Onboard IDE:
• An IDE controller on the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO,
Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
Onbaord SATA:
• NV RAID supports 4 SATA II ports(SATA 1 to 4). Transfer rate is up to 300MB/s.
• Silicon Image's SATA RAID supports another 2 SATA II ports. (SATA 5 and 6)
- Transfer rate is up to 300MB/s.
NV RAID (Software)
• RAID 0 or 1, 0+1, 5, JBOD is supported
• Supports up to 4 SATA HD
Silicon Image's SATARAID™ (Software)
• RAID 0 or 1 and multiple RAID groups are supported
• Support up to 2 SATA devices connected to a single controller
Audio:
• Creative sound Blaster Audigy SE audio
- 24-bit / 96KHz audio quality
- Up to 100db SNR clarity
- 7.1 Channel output supported
- Supports S/PDIF digital interface
- PCI 2.3 Specification compliant
LAN (Ethernet):
• Supports dual LAN jacks
- PCI LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E1115 PHY.
- PCI Express LAN supports 10/100/1000 Fast Ethernet by Marvell 88E8053
Firewire (IEEE1394):
• VIA 6306 chipset
- Supports up to three 1394 ports. (Rear panel x1, pinheader x2)
- Transfer rate is up to 400Mbps
Internal I/O Connectors:
- ATX 24-pin power connector
- ATX 4-pin VGA power connector
- 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
- CPU / Power / System / NB FAN connectors
- CD-in connector
- Clear CMOS button
- IrDA infrared module header
- Chassis intrusion switch connector
- Select DDR power jumper
- Front panel audio connector
- Front panel connector
- D-Bracket2 connector
- 2 x IEEE1394 connector support additional 2 ports
- 3 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 6 ports
- 1 x Floppy disk drive connector
- 6 x Serial ATA connectors
- 2 x ATA133 HD connectors
Back Panel I/O Ports:
- 1 x Parallel port
- 1 x Serial port (COM 1)
- 1 x PS/2 keyboard
- 1 x PS/2 mouse
- 1 x Coaxial SPDIF out
- 1 x IEEE1394 Port
- 1 x 6 in 1 audio jack (S/SPDIF out)
- 4 x USB 2.0 ports
- 2 x RJ45 LAN jack
BIOS:
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and
expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface(DMI) function which records your
mainboard specifications.
Dimension:
• 30.4cm(L) x 24.4cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
Distribution:
Fedora Core 6
Pros: Everything works "out of box" as far as tested except onboard sound on an older FC5 kernel. I've played games with great performance. I've never *ever* had stability issues in Linux with this board. Highly reccomended!
Cons: The onboard Audigy worked in FC5 but was glitchy. Alsa sliders were missing, options didn't work. This may have been fixed now, but I havn't been able to test. MOST apps could use the onboard but a couple wouldn't work no matter what I did. (this gives it a 9 instead of 10)
Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0
Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution:
Does 4GB of DDR400 RAM actually run faster than 2GB (>bandwidth w/4?) in Linux? Most 939 boards decrease DDR when all 4 DIMM are used, so only 2 DIMM is >4 DIMM bandwidth, due to AMD memory controller limitations up toFX60x2, but not sure if Opteron has same limit.
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