DFI – DFI LANParty NFII ULTRA B Review

Morry Teitelman reviews DFI’s LANParty NFII ULTRA B:

The LANParty NFII ULTRA B is the latest addition to DFI’s enthusiast friendly LANParty line, sporting the nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset. The NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset supports all AMD socket 462 based processors including their performance line of 400 MHz FSB processors. The chipset also offers full support for PC3200 DDR memory running in Dual Channel mode. Like most current motherboards on the market, the NFII ULTRA B is a feature complete solution, requiring only CPU, DRAM modules, video card, and drives for a working system. The following components are integrated in to the board itself: 2 ATA 133 IDE ports; 4 SATA-150 ports with built-in RAID0, RAID1, and RAID0+1 support through the Silicon Image controller; integrated NVIDIA 10/100 Ethernet controller; integrated Realtek Gigabit Ethernet controller; 6 total USB 2.0 capable ports(4 in rear panel, and 1 onboard header supporting 2 ports); 3 IEEEE 1394 capable ports (3 onboard headers); 6 channel audio featuring NVIDIA’s SoundStorm technology and S/PDIF input / output ports; bank of 4 diagnostic status LEDs; and the standard serial, parallel and PS/2 ports.

. . . All in all, a great board and one I would definitely recommend if you are in the market for an AthlonXP board. DFI looks to be gunning for the big boys, so ABIT and ASUS may want to keep an eye out…