Cebit 2006: Day 4

DFI

Using ATI's brand-new Crossfire XPress3200 is the Lanparty UT CFX3200-DR. In a back room you could see a live demo of this motherboard which you should think about getting if you want to use Crossfire.

• AMD Socket 939
• ATI Crossfire XPress3200 + ULI M1575
• 2x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x1, 3x PCI
• 4x DDR
• 2x Gigabit Ethernet
• 4x SATA-II, 4x SATA, 2x UDMA
• 10x USB, 1x Firewire

The 915GM-MIGF is DFI's Pentium M solution for the desktop.

• Intel Socket 479 Pentium M
• i915GM + ICH6-M
• Integrated Intel GMA900 VGA
• 1x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI
• 2x DDR-333
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 2x SATA, 2x UDMA
• 8x USB, 2x Firewire

This could become the AM2 successor to the legendary LanParty NF4. The LanParty UT MCP55-D2R seems to have all the features overclockers love.

• AMD Socket AM2
• NVIDIA C51D + MCP55P
• 2x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x4, 3x PCI
• 4x DDR2-800
• 2x Gigabit Ethernet
• 8x SATA-II, 1x UDMA
• 8x USB, 1x Firewire

More budget oriented but with integrated VGA is the C51PV-AM2 Infinity.

• AMD Socket AM2
• NVIDIA GeForce6150 + nForce 430
• 4x DDR2-800
• Integrated GeForce 6200TC with VGA, DVI, HDTV and S-Video out
• 1x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 4x SATA-II, 2x UDMA
• 8x USB, 1x Firewire

You want even more budget? Try the M1697-X32 Infinity which is based on the well performing ULI M1695 chipset. I'm sure DFI will put more overclocking features on this board than ASRock who are a bit limited because they have to follow ASUS policy.

• AMD Socket 939
• ULI M1695 + ULI M1697
• 4x DDR
• 2x PCI-E x16, 2x PCI-E x1, 1x PCI-E x4, 2x PCI
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 4x SATA-II, 2x UDMA
• 8x USB, 1x Firewire