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• Support for all Athlon XP processors including new 200MHz versions
• Up to 3GB of unbuffered non-ECC DDR400 184-pin DDR DRAM memory
• Dual channel memory support
• 1 x AGP 3.0 (8X, 1.5V) slot
• 4 x 32-bit, 33MHz PCI2.1 compliant PCI slots
• 1 x ACR expansion slot (see below)
• Silicon Image Sil3112A SerialATA controller (supporting RAID0/1) w/ 2 ATA150 ports
• Realtek ALC650 6-channel PHY front end to APU audio with support for Dolby Digital
• Realtek 8201BL PHY front end to MCP NVIDIA Ethernet MAC (10/100Mbit)
• 4 USB 2.0 ports
• ATA133 4 device parallel ATA support
• Floppy connector
• Serial port, parallel port
WinFast K7NFAL ACR Specification
• 4 pin unpowered FireWire port
• 6 pin powered FireWire port
• 6 pin powered FireWire port internal
• 100MBit Ethernet port
• Digital Toslink optical output
• Rear and bass channel 3.5mm audio outputs
Remeber the twist I mentioned at the end of the previous page? The ACR card is it. In my previous review of the original K7NCR18G Pro, I mentioned that it had possibly the only useful ACR card in existance, bundled with it. It was a FireWire only ACR solution, but it was a step up from a software modem or a software network card and genuinely useful.
Given that the ACR card sits on a dedicated bus to the southbridge, it made some sense for a high bandwidth peripheral bus like FireWire to be riding it.
Leadtek takes that philosophy with the K7NFAL expansion ACR board and runs with it. You get the old FireWire solution, one external 6-pin, one internal 6-pin (useful for routing a front mounted port on your case to) and a 4-pin unpowered external. You also get a 2nd Ethernet port which is 100MBit auto sensing, a Toslink digital optical output for the Dolby Digital decoder and the final pair of audio jack ports that aren't on the backplate.
You lose a PCI slot in the process, making the board more reminiscent of an early ABIT MAX product in terms of layout. But like all high end nForce2 boards, the feature set more than makes up for any lack of expansion via the PCI bus.
As far as the rest of the features go, that aren't sitting on the ACR expansion card, we get a board very much like the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 that I looked at recently. The same Silicon Image SATA processor, the same SATA port count, the same onboard Ethernet routed to the backplane, the same PATA expansion setup from the MCP-T, the same memory support. It's a full featured board that deserves the Deluxe tag, just like the ASUS does.
So what about the board itself? I can't ignore the 'Deluxe Limited' denomination much longer, we'll have to explore just how it deserves it, other than talking about a feature list.
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