Gigabyte K8NSC
AMD Athlon 64 socket 939NForce 3 250Gb
AGP / PCI
Overall Score: 85/100 points
Looking for motherboards for the Athlon 64 is easy. But what's not so easy is if you want to use your old AGP graphics card with the new motherboard and you don't want to spend money more than you have to. Face it, AGP graphics cards are on the way out, so investing in something that will become obsolete in a year is not the greatest idea. Thankfully there's the Gigabyte K8NSC, an AMD Athlon 64 motherboard with AGP that won't break your wallet. While it's not a full featured motherboard, the price is right and you still have the same performance and technology available on PCI Express boards.
Overview
The full specification (taken from Gigabyte's website)Processor
- Socket 939 for AMD Athlon64/ 64 FX
- NVIDIA NForce3 250Gb Platform Processor
- Super I/O: ITE IT8712F chip
- Marvell 8001 Gigabit Ethernet controller
- Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 Codec
- Type: Dual channel DDR400/ 333/ 266 -184pin
- Max capacity: Up to 4GB by 4 DIMM slots
- 2 x Serial ATA connector
- 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors
- 1 x FDD connector
- 2 x USB 2.0/1.1 connectors (supports 4 ports)
- 3 x cooling fan pin headers
- CD in
- 1 x AGP slot (8x/4x-AGP 3.0 compliant), supports 1.5v display card only
- 5 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant)
- PS/2 Keyboard / Mouse
- 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
- 1 x RJ45 ports
- 2 x COM ports
- 1 x LPT
- Audio (1 x Line-in / 1 x Line-out / 1 x Mic) connector
- CPU FSB / Multiplier / Vcore Voltage adjustable via BIOS
- AGP Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
- DIMM Voltage / Clock adjustable via BIOS
- ATX power connector and ATX 12V connector
- Power-off by Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP shut down and switch
- ATX form factor
- 30.5 x 24.4 cm
- System health status auto-detect and report by BIOS
- Hardware detecting and reporting for case open, CPU voltage, and fan speed
- 2M bit flash ROM, Phoenix BIOS
- XpressTM Installation
- XpressTM Recovery
- Q-FlashTM
- @BIOSTM
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