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Gigabyte K8NSNXP - PAGE 1
Terren Tong - Tuesday, June 8th, 2004

Introduction

Gigabyte is no stranger to the computer industry nor to our test lab. One of Gigabyte's strengths as a company is that they churn out consistent products which makes them one of our top choice when it comes to a recommending a product for the end user. Gigabyte was one of the few manufacturers that produced a Nforce 3 150 based board- the K8NNXP which we reviewed here. It was a board with every feature known under the sun but the price tag reflected that and it was because of the necessity of having to include many extra chips onboard that swayed manufacturers to go with K8T800 from VIA. Today we take a look at their NForce 3 250 based K8NSNXP.

Specifications

Processor
  1. Socket 754 for AMD Athlon64
Chipset

  1. NVIDIA nForce3 250 Platform Processor
  2. Super I/O: ITE IT8712F chip
  3. Integrated peripherials
    1. Silicon Image sil3512 controller
    2. GigaRAID ATA 133 RAID controller
    3. T.I. IEEE1394b controller
    4. Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
    5. ICS 1883 LAN PHY chip
    6. Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec
Memory
  1. Type: DDR400/ 333/ 266- 184pin
  2. Max capacity: Up to 3GB by 3 DIMM slots
Chipset
  1. 4 x Serial ATA connector
  2. 4 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
  3. 1 x FDD connector
  4. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 4 ports)
  5. 2 x IEEE 1394b connectors (supports 3 ports)
  6. S/P DIF input/output pin header
  7. 3 x cooling fan pin headers
  8. CD/AUX in
  9. 1 x Game/Midi connector
Expansion Slots
  1. 1 x AGP slot (8x/4x-AGP 3.0 compliant), supports 1.5v display card only.
  2. 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)
  3. 1 x DPS slots
Rear Panel I/O
  1. PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse
  2. 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  3. 2 x RJ45 ports
  4. 2 x COM ports
  5. 1 x LPT
  6. Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector
CPU/AGP/DIMM setting
  1. CPU FSB / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
  2. AGP Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
  3. DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
Power
  1. ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector
  2. Power-off by Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP shut down and switch

Form Factor
  1. ATX form factor
  2. 30.5 x 24.4 cm
H/W Monitoring
  1. System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
  2. Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, CPU voltage, and fan speed.
BIOS
  1. 2 X 4M bit flash ROM, Award BIOS
Other Features
  1. Xpress Installation
  2. Xpress Recovery
  3. Q-Flash
  4. @BIOS

Article Index

1.Introduction
2.NForce 3 250 vs NForce 3 250Gb
3.The Board and Accessories
4.BIOS
5.Setup & Benchmark Setup
6.Synthetic Benchmarks
7.Audio Benchmarks
8.Game Benchmarks
9.Conclusions
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