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Introduction

DFI have made a name for themselves within the past year or so as being the company to turn to for a robust, easily overclockable motherboard. DFI are also infamous for the amount of accessories and pack-ins that they include with all of their Lanparty series of boards. Their new Infinity line eschews the colorful, feature laden PCB's that the DFI Lanparty brand has been come to be know for, with an extremely stripped down yet highly tweakable board.

The DFI Infinity Nforce 4 SLI looks to offer all of the performance and tweakability of its pricier brothers at a significantly lower cost. The board comes with standard features and functionality, but is filled to the brim with overclocker-friendly BIOS settings.

Reference DFI's product page for the full list of features, but here are some of the more important ones.

RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD

4 SATA ports

6-channel audio CODEC, S/PDIF-in/out interface

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 parallel port

1 serial port

1 IEEE 1394 port

1 RJ45 LAN port

4 USB 2.0/1.1 ports

Line-in, line-out and mic-in jacks

3 fan connectors

2 PCI Express x16 slots (operates at x8 bandwidth)

2 PCI Express x1 slots

3 PCI slots

The Infinity board presents an extremely standard package. It does not try to sell itself on a gratuitous feature or pack in list. Instead, the Infinity comes prepped as an extremely lean, high performing inexpensive SLI solution designed for casual gamers on a budget, to extreme overclockers looking for the best price/performance ratio possible.