Taipei, Taiwan, January, 2004 - With the launch of NVIDIA nForce4 family chipset, Biostar unveils its High Performance SLI (Scalable Link Interface) solution - N4SLI-A9. The N4SLI-A9 belongs to the High Performance motherboards, delivering revolutionary technology like SLI, PCI Express Graphics interface, Serial ATA II, NV firewall, and powerful AMD Athlon64FX/ 64 processor support. This platform offers superior performance and functionality to satisfy even the most demanding power user.

Revolutionary Gaming Platform
Delivering unprecedented graphics performance and enhanced stability, the latest N4SLI-A9 is definitely the way to go for gamers, PC geeks and consumers alike! The N4SLI-A9 represents innovative and beneficial technologies that include Processor, SLI, Memory, Storage, and Security.

Processor

The leading-edge performance and unparallel technology of the AMD AthlonTM64 series processor has built its strength on the well-known AMD64 framework which consisted of 64-bit computing platform, HyperTransport Technology, and integrated memory controller. With improved 1 GHz HyperTransport interface and dual channel DDR400, the innovative processor design ensures superior performance on mission critical business applications.

SLI(Scalable Link Interface) Multi-GPU Support

NVIDIA nForce4 SLI offer blistering graphics performance with the ability to bridge two NVIDIA SLI-ready PCI Express graphics cards! The SLI design takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express bus architecture, features hardware and software innovations within NVIDIA GPU (graphics processing unit) and the NVIDIA nForce4 chipset. Together, the NVIDIA SLI technologies work seamlessly to allow two graphics cards to operate in parallel and share the work and deliver heart-pounding PC performance. NVIDIA SLI is the best solution for driving Multi GPU system performance to experience earth-shattering game play.

Security

The combination of NV Firewall & Norton Internet Security delivers complete solution for system security in the thriving networking environment. This overall package provides the solid protection against hackers, viruses, and privacy infringements without scarifying system performance. Utilizing ActiveArmor hardware engine, the NVIDIA firewall fully protects the system from intruders while delivers the highest system performance.

Memory

AMD Athlon64FX/ 64 achieves the milestone for desktop computing with the CPU-integrated memory controller. This platform supports dual channel DDR400 memory architecture with high bandwidth of up to 6.4GB/s and shorter memory accessing latency thus delivering the greatest memory performance.

Storage

This platform supports reliable storage solution for enhanced data protection and data accessing performance. Serial ATA II is firstly introduced in this platform to provide blazingly 3Gb/s bus bandwidth thus higher disk performance. The NVIDIA RAID allows multi-disk designs to be set up as RAID 0,1,0+1 based on users' priority of protection/ performance. This NVIDIA RAID function makes the RAID even more accessible by introducing the innovative windows-based facility.

N4SLI-A9 Main Specification

1. Supports AMD Athlon64 FX/ 64 Processor (Socket 939)
2. NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset
3. 2* PCI-Express X16 slots
4. 2* PCI-Express X1 slots
5. 3* PCI slots
5. Dual channel DDR400 with 4 DIMMs, support up to 4GB memory
9. 4* Serial ATA
10. 2* Parallel ATA
12. 4* USB 2.0/1.1 ports
13. 8-channel AC97 audio