Introduction
Date 2004-06-21
Provider: Chaintech
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Chaintech Znf3-250 AMD64 motherboard
Tonite it’s time to check out a nice looking AMD64 motherboard from Chaintech. They sent us their ZNF3-250 motherboard. Chaintech is well known for making boards and video cards that overclock very well so we will focus on that part later on in the review and also after some benchmarking etc.
About Chaintech:
The”chain mark” symbol implies Chaintech’s mission to create the infinite possibilities of technology and chain the innovation with humanity. There are also two circles that look like the numbers”8″and”6″which indicate the remembrance of Chaintech’s establishment in 1986
Specifications:
Form Factor:
ATX(305mm x 244mm)
CPU:
Supports the new generation of AMD Socket754 Athlon 64 CPU
Processor:
Interface via 6.4GB/s Hyper Transport bus
Chipset:
NVIDIA nForce3 250
Main Memory:
Three 184-pin DDR DIMMs up to 2GB
Supports DDR266/333/400 modules
Expansion Slots:
One AGP slot for both 4X/8X AGP
Five 32-Bit PCI slots (v2.2 compatible)
One CMR(Chaintech Mulmedia Riser) for Chaintech Multimedia Card (CMC7.1)
Audio Subsystem:
24bit resolution audio format support
7.1 Channel speaker audio supports
Sampling rates up to 96KHz
Multi-channel AC-link supported alternatively
Support S/PDIF out
Video Subsystem:
4X/8X AGP
UltraDMA IDE Ports:
Build-in nForce3 250 supports 2 ATA66/100/133 IDE ports
FDD
One FDD connector supports up to 2.88MB
Embedded USB Controller:
Build-in nForce3 250 supports total 6 USB2.0 ports with High-Speed Device@480 Mb/s Transfer Rate
Embedded system monitoring:
2 temperature sensing for CPU and system
3 Fan speed monitoring (CPU, system and Chipset)
Boot-Block:
Flash ROM Award system BIOS supports PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI, & Multi-device booting features
Software:
Driver CD
Value Pack 2004
Other:
Feature Rear panel I/O ports
One PS2 Mouse and Keyboard port
Two USB ports and one RJ45 connector
Two 9-pin D-Sub male Serial ports
One 25-pin D-Sub female Parallel port
Audio I/O jacks (Line-in, Line-out and Mic-in)
On-board Gigabit Ethernet
On-board Broadcom GbE Controller supports 10/100/1000Base-T Gigabit LAN
On-board SATA RAID Controller
On-board Sli3114 SATA RAID Controller supports 4 Serial ATA devices for the highest data transfer rates (1.5Gbps burst) with RAID 0/1/0+1 solution
On-board VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 Host Controller
On-board VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 Host Controller supports 3 IEEE1394 ports with Serial bus data rates of 100, 200 and 400Mbps.
IEEE P1394a compliant and IEEE Std. 1394-1995
On board connector for external device
Four 3×1 pin fan connectors
2×1 pin fan connector with housing for Chaintech RadEX
Two 5×2 pin USB connectors for front 2 USB ports & 6 in 1 Card Reader on CBOX3
3×1 pin wake on LAN connector with housing
3×1 pin wake on Modem connector with housing
Two 4×1 pin CD-in connectors with housing on CMC7.1
4×1 pin Aux-in connector with housing on CMC7.1
5×2 pin Segment display connector for 2-digits Debug LED on CBOX3
8×1 pin IEEE1394 connector with housing for front IEEE1394 port on CBOX3
9×2 pin front panel connector
5×2 pin front side audio connector
20 pin ATX Power connector
4 pin ATX 12V Power connector
The product:
Please click on thumbnails to get bigger pictures
Sweet looking box for the motherboard I have to say. I was able to get perfect pictures of the box. On the back we found specifications and features that this board holds. On the front we have the name of the board and on the left side a big Chaintech logo.
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