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Chaintech VNF4 vForce4 Socket 939 Motherboard

Friday, September 9th, 2005 | Motherboards, Reviews

This motherboard provides a good low priced motherboard for the Socket 939 format. It has taken a little time, but the price for this socket type has finally come to a decent level.

It comes with a good range of extras to provide for most of your general needs. These include

• Socket 939, for AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX
• nVidia nForce4 Ultra
• 4 DDR memory slots (2 dual-channel pairs)
• Built-in audio
• LAN
• USB 2.0
• 2 PCI Express slots, 1 PCIe 16x slot
• IDE up to ATA133
• Serial ATA (up to SATA II-300)
• 4 fan connectors

At around a hundred bucks and less with the rebate that is offered, this board easily makes it as one of the best boards in it’s price range.

With all the included features, the only extra you would need is a video card. It also misses Firewire, which could be missed by some, but not all people. I don’t have anything that uses it, and USB has much more widespread use.

Reports on this boards have it performing well. Most installation of a motherboard and the drivers that come with it is fairly intuitive. But for those who are not so familiar with the process, their instructions leave a little to be desired, so be prepared to seek help online if things don’t go smoothly.

A computer built around this would do well in both the office and home environments. It has enough power for any application and can handle well in games too, as long as it’s combined with a good video card. PCI express allows the use of the latest video cards, but it does not have support for SLI (2 video cards connected to each other to increase performance).

In it’s standard form, the motherboard will do what you want it to do, and do it well. For those who like to overclock, it has the ability, you can see for yourself how far it will go. The board has the capability to go at least 35% over it’s standard 200MHz to about 270MHz.

So overall a fantastic deal in this range…

Pros

• Good price
• Fully featured
• Socket 939
• Dual channel memory

Cons

• No firewire
• Poor instructions

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