Specification and Accessories
DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard is shipped in a box with a similar design as the solutions on NVIDIA nForce4 chipset from the same manufacturer. The only difference is the color gamma of the package, which is red for ATI based solution:
The relatively small size of the box suggest that we are quite unlikely to find any additional controllers, as well as any other exotic bonuses, which are usually included with the high-end mainboards targeted for the hardware enthusiasts. In other words, even though DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR is not a cheap mainboard at all, which is even equipped with a pair of graphics card slots for the CrossFire mode, the bundled accessories are quite scarce. Besides the mainboard itself, the box also contains just the following:
- A CD-ROM disk with a standard set of drivers and utilities;
- Four Serial ATA cables and two power cables for a pair of Serial ATA HDDs;
- Two round 80-pin Parallel ATA cables and a round cable for FDD;
- I/O shield for the case rear panel;
- Karajan audio module for the integrated sound;
- User抯 guide.
All the cables supplied with the mainboard are of bright yellow color. They glow in ultra-violet light, which is actually one of the brand name features of the entire DFI LanParty family of products. Also, this bright color design makes these cables go very well with the mainboard itself, which is designed in black-and-yellow colors.
The exterior design of the DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR mainboard looks very nice. Here is the list of formal specifications for this product:
DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR |
CPU | AMD Athlon 64 for Socket 939 |
Chipset | Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire (RD480 + SB450) |
Hypertransport bus | 1 GHz |
Clock generator frequencies | 200-500MHz (with 1MHz increment) |
Overclocking friendly functions | Independently adjustable PCI Express bus frequency.
Adjustable CPU clock frequency multiplier.
Adjustable Vcore, Vmem, Vchipset, HyperTransport voltage
and PCI Express voltage. |
Memory | 4 DDR DIMM slots for dual-channel DDR400 SDRAM |
PCI Express slots | 2 x PCI Express x16 1 x PCI Express x1 |
PCI expansion slots | 3 |
USB 2.0 ports | 8 (6 ?on the rear panel) |
IEEE1394 ports | 2 (1 ?on the rear panel, by VIA VT6307 controller) |
ATA-100/133 | 2 ATA-133 channels (in the chipset) |
Serial ATA | 4 Serial ATA-150 channels (RAID support in the chipset)
4 Serial ATA-150 channels
(RAID support by Silicon Image Sil3114 controller) |
ATA RAID support | RAID 0, 1 in the chipset
RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 by Silicon Image Sil3114 controller |
Integrated sound | 8-channel AC97 codec: Realtek ALC882 |
Integrated LAN | Two Gigabit Ethernet controllers
(Marvell 88E8053 and Marvell 88E8001) |
Additional features | None |
BIOS | Phoenix-AwardBIOS v6.00PG |
Form-factor | ATX, 305mm x 240mm |
I would like to stress that DFI is also offering a similar solution based on the same PCB layout called DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-D, which differs from our today抯 hero by the absence of the additional Serial ATA RAID controller from Silicon Image.
So, DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR looks like a pretty advanced mainboard with a bunch of great characteristics, which offers the complete set of features even in the basic modification. The remarkable feature of this product is the presence of two PCI Express x16 slots that allows using this mainboard in CrossFire platforms built with two ATI-based graphics cards (for details see our article called Swords Crossed: ATI CrossFire Platform Review ). As a result, DFI LanParty UT RDX200 CF-DR is relatively expensive, although it cannot boast rich set of bundled accessories at this price point.
