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Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith (nForce3)

Company: Chaintech
Product: ZNF3-150 Zenith
Street Price: $210
Date Reviewed: November 20, 2003
Reviewed By: Joey Chao

 

Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith Specifications:

Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith 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 150
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 Multimedia 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: - Video 4X/8X AGP
UltraDMA IDE Ports: - Build-in nForce3 150 supports 3 ATA66/100/133 IDE ports
FDD: - One FDD connector supports up to 2.88MB
Embedded USB Controller: - Build-in nForce3 150 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 support PnP, APM, DMI, ACPI, & Multi-device booting features
Software: - Driver CD
- Value Pack 2003
Other Features: 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 0/1/5/10 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 3x1 pin fan connectors
- 2x1 pin fan connector with housing for Chaintech RadEX
- Two 5x2 pin USB connectors for front 2 USB ports & 6 in 1 Card Reader on CBOX3
- 3x1 pin wake on LAN connector with housing
- 3x1 pin wake on Modem connector with housing
- Two 4x1 pin CD-in connectors with housing on CMC7.1
- 4x1 pin Aux-in connector with housing on CMC7.1
- 5x2 pin Segment display connector for 2-digits Debug LED on CBOX3
- 8x1 pin IEEE1394 connector with housing for front IEEE1394 port on CBOX3
- 9x2 pin front panel connector
- 5x2 pin front side audio connector
- 20 pin ATX Power connector
- 4 pin ATX 12V Power connector

 


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Page Navigation
Page 1:  Introduction
Page 2:  — Specifications
Page 3:  Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith Onboard Features
Page 4:  Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith Layout
Page 5:  Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith Bundled Accessories
Page 6:  Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith BIOS
Page 7:  Chaintech ZNF3-150 Zenith Overclocking
Page 8:  Test Setup & Benchmarks Used
Page 9:  Benchmarks: Sysmark 2002
Page 10:  Benchmarks: SPEC ViewPerf 7.0
Page 11:  Benchmarks: SPEC ViewPerf 7.0 (cont)
Page 12:  Benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra
Page 13:  Benchmarks: 3DMarks 2001 SE, Quake 3 Arena
Page 14:  Benchmarks: Unreal Tournament 2003
Page 15:  Conclusions

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