Gigabyte Unveils nForce2 Ultra 400 Mainboard

by Anton Shilov
05/12/2003 | 02:55 PM

As we told you on the 30^th of April, Gigabyte Technology decided to adopt NVIDIA’s Socket A nForce2-series chipsets for its mainboards. A nice and well-timed move for the mainboard manufacturer since NVIDIA’s chipsets are now really trendy and every mainboard maker committed to AMD Socket A utilises them. Today Gigabyte Technology officially announced its GA-7NNXP mainboard based on the yet-unannounced nForce2 Ultra 400 core-logic from NVIDIA.

The GA-7NNXP is a yet another advanced product from Gigabyte Technology with loads of features as well as advanced capabilities. Take a look at the specifications of the mainboard:

• Supports Socket A Athlon XP processors with 200/266/333/400MHz EV-6 FSB;
• NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, including MCP-T I/O controller;
• 4 DIMM slots for up to 3GB of PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200; Note that for dual-channel configurations you have to install a pair of identical memory modules;
• 5 PCI slots and 1 AGP Pro 8x slot;
• 2-channel ATA-133/100/66/33 integrated controller;
• SiliconImage Serial ATA-150 controller (2 Serial ATA-150 ports);
• GigaRAID controller from ITE (2 Parallel ATA ports);
• 10/100Mb/s Ethernet from Realtek and 10/100/1000Mb/s from Intel LAN;
• 6 USB 2.0 ports;
• FireWire (IEEE1394) support;
• 6-channel AC’97 audio solution;
• Overclocking functions, including Vcore, Vmem and Vagp adjusting, FSB Setting and Multiplier Setting;
• DualBIOS, Dual PowerSystem, Xpress Install, Easytune 4, Q-Flash, @BIOS and other proprietary features of Gigabyte.
• ATX Form Factor.

Besides premier GA-7NNXP mainboard, Gigabyte also offers bunch of other devices based on NVIDIA nForce2 chipset, including 7NNXPV, 7N400 Pro, 7N400V Pro, 7N400 and 7N400V mainboards. Pricing information is not available, but the mainboards should make their appearance shortly, so, you will know everything yourself.