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The DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR Motherboard
This is one awesome-looking motherboard. I love the UV slots that is located all over the motherboard. The overall layout of the motherboard is excellent. The power connectors are all grouped at the top right corner of the motherboard (lower right in the picture). As such, you won't have the big ugly ATX power cables stretching across your motherboard.
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The IDE and floppy
connectors are also grouped towards the right side of the motherboard (next to the ATX power connectors) and that allows you to arrange the cables neatly.
DFI used an active cooler for the NVIDIA nForce 4 chip. They also attached heatsinks onto the power MOSFETs situated next to the ATX power connectors.
Speaking about the power connectors, you will be surprised to find out that there are four power connectors on the LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR. Yes, there're FOUR of them.
There is your usual 24-pin and 4-pin ATX power connectors, but there is also a 4-pin Molex connector, and a floppy power connector. DFI recommends that
ALL FOUR of these power connectors be connected for maximum stability and performance. 
That itself says a lot about the potential of this motherboard.
In case if you guys didn't know... this motherboard is for Socket 939 processors only. 
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Socket 939 |
Labels on the motherboard |
Incidentally, the layout of the three DFI nForce 4-based motherboards (NF4, NF4 SLI-D and LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR) generally look the same. Therefore, the easiest way to distinquish
these motherboards is by the SLI sticker. 
The underside of the LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR is unremarkable. The only feature of any interest is the plastic backplate.
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Underside
Specifications
Here's the specifications of the DFI LANParty UT NF4 SLI-DR motherboard.
| Processor |
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AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron • 2000MT/s HyperTransport interface • Socket 939 |
| Chipset |
• NVIDIA
nForce4 SLI - Supports NVIDIA SLI (Scalable Link Interface) |
| Front
Side Bus |
• 2000MT/s
HyperTransport interface |
| Memory |
• Four
184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets • Supports dual channel (128-bit wide) memory interface • Supports up to 4GB system memory • Supports PC2100 (DDR266), PC2700 (DDR333) and PC3200 (DDR400) DDR SDRAM DIMM • Supports x8/x16 non-ECC unbuffered DIMMs, tp to 512Mb DDR Devices |
| SLI
/ Single VGA Mode |
• SLI mode - 2 SLI-ready graphics cards (use identical cards) on the PCI Express x16 slots. - Each x16 slot operates at x8 bandwidth. When the graphics cards are connected via the SLI bridge, the total bandwidth of the two graphics cards is x16.• Single VGA mode - 1 PCI Express graphics card on the PCIE1 slot will run at x16 bandwidth. - The other PCI Express x16 slot (PCIE4) will run at x2 bandwidth. |
| BIOS |
• Award BIOS • CMOS Reloaded • CPU/DRAM overclocking • CPU/DRAM/Chipset overvoltage • 4Mbit flash memory |
| Power
Management |
• Supports ACPI specification and OS Directed
Power Management • Supports ACPI STR (Suspend to RAM) function • Wake-On-Events include: - Wake-On-PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse - Wake-On-USB Keyboard/Mouse - Wake-On-LAN - RTC timer to power-on the system• AC power failure recovery |
Hardware
Monitor |
• Monitors CPU/system/chipset
temperature • Monitors 12V/5V/3.3V/Vcore/Vbat/5Vsb/Vchipset/Vdram voltages • Monitors the speed of the CPU fan, Fan 2 and chipset fan • CPU Overheat Protection function monitors CPU temperature during system boot-up |
Audio |
• Karajan audio module - Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC - 6 audio jacks - 1 CD-in connector - 1 front audio connector • True stereo line level outputs • S/PDIF-in/out interface |
LAN |
• Dual Gigabit LAN - Vitesse
VSC8201 Gigabit Phy and Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit PCI • Fully compliant to IEEE 802.3 (10BASE-T), 802.3u (100BASE-TX) and 802.3ab (1000BASE-T) standards • Integrated power management features |
IDE |
• nForce4 chip supports two IDE connectors that allows connecting up to
four UltraDMA 133Mbps hard drives • NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA • RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 |
Serial
ATA with RAID |
• Four
Serial ATA ports supported by the nForce4 chip - SATA speed up to 3Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 - NVIDIA RAID allows RAID arrays spanning across Serial ATA and Parallel ATA• Four Serial ATA ports supported by the Silicon Image Sil 3114 chip - SATA speed up to 1.5Gb/s - RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5 |
IEEE
1394 |
• VIA
VT6307 -Supports two 100/200/400 Mb/sec ports |
Rear
Panel I/O Ports |
• 1
x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port • 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port • 2 x S/PDIF RCA jacks (S/PDIF-in and S/PDIF-out) • Karajan audio module (6 audio jacks) • 1 x IEEE 1394 port • 2 x RJ45 LAN ports • 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports |
I/O
Connectors |
• 2
x connectors for 4 additional external USB 2.0/1.1 ports • 1 x connector for 1 external IEEE 1394 port • 1 x connector for 1 external serial port • 1 x front audio connector for external line-out and mic-in jacks (on the Karajan audio module) • 1 x CD-in internal audio connector (on the Karajan audio module) • 1 x S/PDIF connector for optical cable connection • 1 x IR connector • 8 x Serial ATA connectors • 2 xIDE connectors • 1 x floppy connector • 1 x 24-pin ATX power connector • 1 x 4-pin ATX 12V power connector • 2 x 4-pin 5V/12V power connectors (FDD-type and HDD type) • 1 x front panel connector • 5 x fan connectors • 4 x diagnostic LEDs • EZ touch switches (power switch and reset switch) |
Expansion
Slots |
• 2
PCI Express x16 slots • 1 PCI Express x1 slot • 1 PCI Express x4 slot • 2 PCI slots |
PCB |
• ATX
form factor • 24cm (9.45") x 30.5cm (12") |
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