GigaByte GA-K8NS-939 motherboard is using a very nice blue coloured PCB board. It is a socket 939 AMD64 motherboard, which uses the nForce3TM Ultra chipset.

The north bridge uses a golden heatsink and fan grill with a 40mm fan inside it.

The are a total of four memory slot on the K8NS-939 motherboard. Each slot supports up to a 1GB memory module. With the integrated memory controller, this platform supports dual channel DDR400 memory architecture, and delivers a high capacity of 4GB memory and a high bandwidth up to 6.4GB/s to ensure greatest memory performance. Furthermore, as usual, the motherboard comes with the two UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE connectors and one FDD connector.

There is an AGP 8X graphics interface slot and five PCI slot.

There is only two Serial ATA connector on this GA-K8NS-939 motherboard. These two Serial ATA have RAID 0,1 function. The Serial ATA is the revolutionary ATA interface that provides scalable performance for IDE device. With up to 150MB/s data transfer rate, Serial ATA is faster than current Parallel ATA and delivers superior input/output performance.