ABIT NV8 the Sempron's Best Friend (part 1 of 5)
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1. ABIT NV8 Intro
The ABIT brand of motherboards is very well-known for massive overclockability. And as they are aimed squarely at the middle to high end DIY market, they naturally don't come cheap. The market, however, needs products from all segments, starting from affordable entry-level to pricey feature-rich high-end. For more price-sensitive users, there are also high price-performance items such as this ABIT NV8 motherboard.
Found at Newegg.com at just $80, this Abit motherboard represents an immense value as we don't detect any discounts in functionality or quality. And that makes it the Socket 754 processor's best friend and really good news for users who are currently contemplating building a Sempron (Socket 754) system. These users want price and respectable levels of performance, and this motherboard has got both.
As we already know, there isn't really an obvious performance gap between Athlon 64 processors produced on the Socket 754 and Socket 939 packages. This motherboard can therefore be used to erect a high-performance Athlon 64 computing platform. As such, it isn't entirely fair to call the Socket 754 a low-mid-range choice. With ABIT's industry-leading overclocking technologies, this is a deal that definitely deserves to be checked out.
This is an officially-supplied shot of the NV8 motherboard. The actual retail version is slightly different (note: nothing is missing) in that the CPU power supply area adopts solid aluminum capacitors, and is actually a little more sumptuous than what is shown above.
This motherboard is packed for the price. It comes with 4 SATA data cables and a USB expansion bracket (with two USB ports). It doesn't get much better than this for the asking price.
2. Specifications
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Like other nForce4-4x motherboards, the Socket 754 ABIT NV8 motherboard supports the Socket 754 Athlon 64 and Sempron processors. As we see in the image above, this motherboard is designed to take into account the majority of requirements out there (the two DIMM slots aside). This motherboard has seven expansion slots (1 PCI Express x16 graphics card slot, 3 PCI Express x1 and three PCI slots) and 4 SATA ports with RAID support as well as 2 PATA pots.
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3. Close Ups: Rear IO Panel, SATA Port. Expansion Slots
Being a non-high-end product, the NV8 is surprisingly well-equipped (although it doesn't provide dual Gigabit Ethernet ports) with a RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port and FireWire. The rear IO panel is at once both feature-rich and practical with the required PS/2 and USB ports, plus 7.1 channel audio output ports and an Optical S/PDIF output port. This means that users can use a standalone decoder for AC3/DTS decoding without another sound card, which is very convenient.
The motherboard's jumpers use the convenient classic ABIT plug and play style design. In addition, the chipset cooler is molded from copper, which is excellent news for any member of the nForce4 family.
ABIT provides an auxiliary power connector for the PCI Express x16 graphics cards, but it won't be used in most cases. The sheer number of expansion slots on the NV8 is really quite rare among entry to mid-range motherboards. There are three PCI x1 slots and 3 PCI slots in addition to the graphics card slot.
3. Close Ups: MCP and Onboard Devices
As we are quite aware of by now, many of the earlier nForce4-4x MCPs were actually "A2 edition" nForce4 products that were unable to work stably at 1GHz HT bus speed. This caused engineers to retard it to 800MHz. The A2 were limited in number, and ours is actually the A3 edition nForce4 MCP operating at 1GHz HT bus speed.
CPU-Z v1.30 also detects the A3 edition MCP
Vitesse VSC8201 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Realtek ALC850 AC'97 Codec
This motherboard's Ethernet ports are provided courtesy of the nForce4-4x's integrated MAC controller and the Vitesse VSC8201 PHY. This combination is used to provide true dual Gigabit Ethernet speeds (although most users won't even be taking advantage of Gigabit Ethernet), and support for the NVIDIA firewall feature (the standard nForce4 and the -4x edition do not have the hardware security engine). This motherboard has very strong networking features.
5. Close Ups: CPU power supply area and PCB tin stripes
The NV8’s CPU power supply is quite lavishly made with solid aluminum capacitors – something found rarely on bargain price motherboards.
Here's a shot of the MOSFET cooler removed. This 3-phase design uses 6 MOSFET in all. Though each MOSFET will operate hotter, they can rely on the heatsink for added heat dissipation.
The NV8 uses only Japanese made capacitors, and most of them come from Rubycon. Praiseworthy indeed for such a humbly-priced product.
At the back of the motherboard are tin stripes used to aid cooling of the PCB. Although there isn't much of it, it definitely helps.
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1. ABIT NV8 Intro
The ABIT brand of motherboards is very well-known for massive overclockability. And as they are aimed squarely at the middle to high end DIY market, they naturally don't come cheap. The market, however, needs products from all segments, starting from affordable entry-level to pricey feature-rich high-end. For more price-sensitive users, there are also high price-performance items such as this ABIT NV8 motherboard.
Found at Newegg.com at just $80, this Abit motherboard represents an immense value as we don't detect any discounts in functionality or quality. And that makes it the Socket 754 processor's best friend and really good news for users who are currently contemplating building a Sempron (Socket 754) system. These users want price and respectable levels of performance, and this motherboard has got both.
As we already know, there isn't really an obvious performance gap between Athlon 64 processors produced on the Socket 754 and Socket 939 packages. This motherboard can therefore be used to erect a high-performance Athlon 64 computing platform. As such, it isn't entirely fair to call the Socket 754 a low-mid-range choice. With ABIT's industry-leading overclocking technologies, this is a deal that definitely deserves to be checked out.
This is an officially-supplied shot of the NV8 motherboard. The actual retail version is slightly different (note: nothing is missing) in that the CPU power supply area adopts solid aluminum capacitors, and is actually a little more sumptuous than what is shown above.
This motherboard is packed for the price. It comes with 4 SATA data cables and a USB expansion bracket (with two USB ports). It doesn't get much better than this for the asking price.
2. Specifications
Click to enlarge
Like other nForce4-4x motherboards, the Socket 754 ABIT NV8 motherboard supports the Socket 754 Athlon 64 and Sempron processors. As we see in the image above, this motherboard is designed to take into account the majority of requirements out there (the two DIMM slots aside). This motherboard has seven expansion slots (1 PCI Express x16 graphics card slot, 3 PCI Express x1 and three PCI slots) and 4 SATA ports with RAID support as well as 2 PATA pots.
Click to enlarge
3. Close Ups: Rear IO Panel, SATA Port. Expansion Slots
Being a non-high-end product, the NV8 is surprisingly well-equipped (although it doesn't provide dual Gigabit Ethernet ports) with a RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet port and FireWire. The rear IO panel is at once both feature-rich and practical with the required PS/2 and USB ports, plus 7.1 channel audio output ports and an Optical S/PDIF output port. This means that users can use a standalone decoder for AC3/DTS decoding without another sound card, which is very convenient.
The motherboard's jumpers use the convenient classic ABIT plug and play style design. In addition, the chipset cooler is molded from copper, which is excellent news for any member of the nForce4 family.
ABIT provides an auxiliary power connector for the PCI Express x16 graphics cards, but it won't be used in most cases. The sheer number of expansion slots on the NV8 is really quite rare among entry to mid-range motherboards. There are three PCI x1 slots and 3 PCI slots in addition to the graphics card slot.
3. Close Ups: MCP and Onboard Devices
As we are quite aware of by now, many of the earlier nForce4-4x MCPs were actually "A2 edition" nForce4 products that were unable to work stably at 1GHz HT bus speed. This caused engineers to retard it to 800MHz. The A2 were limited in number, and ours is actually the A3 edition nForce4 MCP operating at 1GHz HT bus speed.
CPU-Z v1.30 also detects the A3 edition MCP
Vitesse VSC8201 Gigabit Ethernet PHY
Realtek ALC850 AC'97 Codec
This motherboard's Ethernet ports are provided courtesy of the nForce4-4x's integrated MAC controller and the Vitesse VSC8201 PHY. This combination is used to provide true dual Gigabit Ethernet speeds (although most users won't even be taking advantage of Gigabit Ethernet), and support for the NVIDIA firewall feature (the standard nForce4 and the -4x edition do not have the hardware security engine). This motherboard has very strong networking features.
5. Close Ups: CPU power supply area and PCB tin stripes
The NV8’s CPU power supply is quite lavishly made with solid aluminum capacitors – something found rarely on bargain price motherboards.
Here's a shot of the MOSFET cooler removed. This 3-phase design uses 6 MOSFET in all. Though each MOSFET will operate hotter, they can rely on the heatsink for added heat dissipation.
The NV8 uses only Japanese made capacitors, and most of them come from Rubycon. Praiseworthy indeed for such a humbly-priced product.
At the back of the motherboard are tin stripes used to aid cooling of the PCB. Although there isn't much of it, it definitely helps.
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