Specifications and bundle
Specifications in detail
Processors
- Supports Socket A (Socket 462) for AMD® Athlon™ / Athlon XP / Duron™ processor
- Supports 600MHz up to 2166MHz processor and higher (Thoroughbred compatible)
- Support for 200 / 266FSB / 333FSB processors.
Chipset
- Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce2 SPP
- Southbridge: NVIDIA nForce2 MCP-T
System Memory
- 3 x 184pin DDR DIMM slots
- DDR200 / DDR266 / DDR333 / DDR400 support @ 2.5v
- 3GB maximum system RAM (non-ECC), 2GB for DDR400
- Dual DDR architecture combines 2 independent 64-bit memory controllers
- Dual DDR provides up to 6.4GB/s of system bandwidth
Slots
- One AGP 8/4x AGP compliant (1.5v and 0.8v support)
- 5 x 32-bit PCI 33MHz slots
On-board peripherals
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDD
- 2 serial ports
- 1 parallel port
- 1 iRDA connector
- PS/2 Keyboard
- PS/2 Mouse
- 3 Audio Jacks (NVIDIA APU via ALC650)
- Game Port
- 6 x USB 2.0 connectors from MCP-T SB (2 on-board + 4 by additional brackets)
- Headers for Firewire, ABIT Media XP, and USB2.0
On-board IDE
- An IDE controller on the Nforce2 MCP-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66/ operation modes
- Can connect up to 4 IDE devices
- Silicon Image SIL3112A SATA RAID controller, 2 ports.
- RAID 0 and 1 modes available (no 0+1).
Audio
- NVIDIA 6-channel Soundstorm via Realtek ALC650 6-channel CODEC. S/PDIF Out (Optical) on the backplane.
- Supports real time AC3 encoding via hardware
- 'Soundstorm' certified
Other features
- NVIDIA 10/100 LAN via Realtek RTL8201LB physical interface.
- NVIDIA Firewire support (3x 1394a) via Realtek RTL8801B physical interface
BIOS & Voltages
- ABIT Softmenu III
- FSB speeds of 100MHz - 237MHz (some individual FSBs are missing)
- 1.1 - 1.85v Vcore adjustable in 0.025v increments
- 2.4v - 2.7v DDR voltage adjustment
- 1.5 - 1.8v AGP adjustment in 0.1v increments
- 1.5 - 1.7v chipset voltage
Other extras
The bundle comprises of the following goodies
- 1 x ABIT's parallel-to-SATA Serrilel converter
- 1 x USB 2.0 header for 2 extra ports
- Driver CD (on CD-R this time)
- Custom backplane
- 1 x ATA133 cables, 1 x floppy cable
Seeing as the NF7-S features Firewire support, I'm surprised to see no companion bracket included. As this is a very new package characterised by the drivers and utilities on CD-R, this might just be a packaging error. The driver CD contains the various drivers and a couple of diagnostic utilities together with NVIDIA's Soundstorm enhanced audio software. I'd have liked another ATA133 cable and another USB2.0 bracket to fully use the 6 USB2.0 ports on offer. The manual was on the CD-R for our particular test motherboard. Functional more than exciting.
