[H]ard|OCP reviews DFI ICFX3200-T2R/G ATI RD600 based motherboard
Diamond Flower International was originally founded in 1981 and over the years DFI has established themselves as a top tier motherboard manufacturer competing with ASUS, abit, and others. DFI is known particularly for their LANParty and Infinity series motherboards. Indeed their UV reactive color schemes are something you'd be hard pressed to forget after seeing them. DFI is also well known for building motherboards that are not only brightly colored, but highly overclockable and packed full of innovative features.
The ICFX3200-T2R/G has been a long anticipated release from DFI featuring the ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200 (RD600) chipset for Intel CPUs. It also uses already released ATI SB600 south bridge chip that came to market earlier this year. The ICFX3200-T2R/G supports the Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core 2 Duo / Intel Pentium Extreme and Intel Pentium D processors. . Following Industry trends the ICFX3200-T2R/G requires only a few components to create a working machine. The required components are: Socket LGA775 CPU, DDR 2 memory, power supply, drives and a video card. DFI integrated the following components into the ICFX3200-T2R/G 1 ATA-133 port; 1 floppy port; 10 USB ports (6 on the backplane and 2 headers supporting 2 ports each.) ; 8 SATA 3G ports; (four on the SB600 and 4 on the Promise controller); 2 GigE Ethernet port; Onboard Realtek ALC885 8 Channel Audio Codec; Coaxial, S/PDIF In/out; 2 IEEE1394 ports (1 on backplane and 1 via header) and of course standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports...
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