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DFI LAN Party Pro875B
We all know
who the big players are in the enthusiast motherboard market. ASUS, ABIT, EPoX...
This year you can add DFI to that list. In fact, I'm willing to bet that DFI
will be topping that list by mid 2004. DFI has exploded onto the enthusiast and
gaming scene in the past year, and it's only a matter of time before they become
everyone's first choice. Take a look at the LAN Party NFII Ultra B motherboard.
Straight out of the box, this board is the fastest, and most overclockable
Socket-A motherboards on the market today. As for their Intel boards, they are
pretty new, but yet extremely fast and overclocker friendly. We've taken a look
at pretty much everything DFI has to offer, this time we take a look at the best
Pentium 4 motherboard DFI has to offer, the LAN Party Pro875B.
Click on the image above for a high
resolution version.
Features /
Specifications
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Product Name |
PRO 875B |
PRO 875 |
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Chipset |
Intel 875P / ICH5R |
Intel 875P /
ICH5R |
Intel 865PE /
ICH5 |
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CPU Socket |
Socket 478
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Socket 478
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Socket 478
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Processor |
Pentium 4 / Celeron |
Pentium 4 /
Celeron |
Pentium 4 /
Celeron |
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Overclock and Overvoltage |
FSB / Vcore / DDR / PAT |
FSB / Vcore /
DDR / PAT |
FSB / Vcore /
DDR / AGP / Super Patch |
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CMOS Reloaded |
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-
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System Bus (MHz) |
400/533/800 (HT) |
400/533/800
(HT) |
400/533/800
(HT) |
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Memory |
Dual Channel DDR400,
Up to 4GB |
Dual Channel
DDR400,
Up to 4GB |
Dual Channel
DDR 400,
Up to 4GB |
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PCI Slots |
5 |
5 |
5 |
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LAN |
Intel Gigabit CSA LAN |
Intel Gigabit
CSA LAN |
10/100/1000 LAN
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AGP 8X
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6 Channel
Audio |
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SATA
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2 (RAID) |
2 (RAID)
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4 (RAID)
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IDE RAID
0/1/0+1/1.5 |
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- |
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IEEE 1394
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- |
- |
3 |
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USB 2.0
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8 |
8 |
8 |
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Fluorescent
Appearance |
Orange |
Orange
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Orange +
Green |
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Dignostic LED
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EZ On / Touch
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Genie BIOS
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BIOS Live
Update |
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S/PDIF
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FRONTX
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WinDVD &
WinRip Bundle |
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Round Cable
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PC Transpo
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Case Badge
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Thermal Paste
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Black PCB and
round corner |
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As you can
see by the chart above, the Pro875B is loaded! The only thing DFI skips is
IEEE1394, but to be honest, I don't know of anyone who uses it anyway. One of
the biggest and newest features is
CMOS Reloaded. CMOS Reloaded is a huge enhancement to help out us Overclockers
by saving our favorite settings. We'll talk about this new feature more later on
in the review. One other nice feature is that this board has both Serial ATA RAID
(two ports) and IDE RAID (two ports). Most boards on the market today give you
one or the other, but rarely both. You can find a very nice interactive page
explaining all the features of this board
here.
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