Chaintech ZNF3-150 ZENITH Motherboard Review
Admin - March 3, 2004Category: Motherboards
Price: $165 USD
Introduction:
Usually when we review a product at OCC, we’ll take one item, and put it up against similar products. Today we are going to try something a little different with our first AMD64 motherboard review. One reason for this, is that I simply don’t have another AMD64 motherboard to use, and the second reason for this is I wanted to give a real life scenario look at the motherboard.
Now that you are probably saying, “what the hell is he talking about ‘real life scenario’?” Most people that I know don’t go out and build a whole new computer, instead, they’ll buy a part here and a part there and upgrade as they have time and/or money. This is the angle we are going to use today in our review of Chaintech’s latest motherboard, the ZNF3-150 ZENITH.
For this review, I’ll be using the video card, memory, hard disk, and other components from my AMD Athlon XP 1800+ system and seeing how much of a difference the upgrade to an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on Chaintech’s ZNF3-150 ZENITH motherboard will be. Of course the comparison numbers should be higher on the AMD64 3000+ system, and that’s the point; to show how much higher. For those who want to see a comparison of the ZNF3-150 to another AMD64 motherboard, stay tuned for our next motherboard review, as it will have the ZNF3-150 used as a comparison.
Specifications:
The following are the specifications for the ZNF3-150 as provided by Chaintech.
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| CPU |
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| Chipset |
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| Main Memory |
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| Expansion Slots |
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| Audio Subsystem |
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| Video Subsystem |
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| UltraDMA IDE Ports |
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| FDD |
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| Embedded USB Controller |
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| Embedded system monitoring |
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| Boot-Block Flash ROM |
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| Software |
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| Other Feature |
Rear panel I/O ports
On-board Gigabit Ethernet
On-board SATA RAID Controller
On-board VIA VT6306 IEEE1394 Host Controller
On board connector for external device
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