Albatron announced the launch of its K8NF4X-754 motherboard, which features the Nvidia nForce4 4X chipset and supports dual-graphics card solutions for the AMD Socket-754 Athlon 64 and Sempron CPU lines. According to the company, the motherboard is slated to hit markets in the beginning of November worldwide.
Similar to the PX945P motherboard based on the Intel 945P chipset, the two PCIe graphics card slots on the K8NF4X-754 are comprised of one x16 PCI Express (PCIe) slot and one x4 PCIe slot, allowing users to install two x4 PCIe cards at the same time.
A suggested retail price is not yet available.
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Albatron K8NF4X-754 motherboard specifications | |
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CPU |
Socket-754 AMD Athlon 64/ Sempron |
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FSB |
800 MHz |
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Chipset |
Single-chip Nvidia nForce4 4X |
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LAN chip |
Broadcom MCSAC131 PHY (up to 10/100 Mb/s) |
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Audio chip |
Realtek ALC655 |
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I/O chip |
Winbond Smart I/O W83627THF |
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Memory |
Two DDR sockets: DDR 333/400 non-ECC DDR SDRAM (up to 2GB) |
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Expansion slots |
Two PCIe x16 (supports dual graphics x16+x4), two PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compliant) |
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IDE/ SATA connectors |
Two ATA133 channels (up to four ATA 133 IDE devices), four SATA channels (up to four SATA hard drives) |
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Onboard I/O connectors |
Floppy connector, four USB 2.0/1.1 header, S/PDIF in/out header, CPU fan header, two system fan headers, two 5-pin system panel header, 3-pin power LED header, front audio header, ABS header |
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Form factor |
ATX: 293x198mm |
Source: Company, compiled by DigiTimes, September 2005