XFX BAV11CNF4939Y AMD Athlon 64 FX / Athlon 64 / Sempron AMD Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 none Limited Edition NVIDIA Barebone - Retail

It will do

Reviewed By: Flyindoc on 10/24/2006

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Pros: Excellent looks with easy accessability to the components. Case cover comes off easy. Plenty of room for routing of wires. Comes with a full size ATX PSU. Mobo manual is good, case manual is good if you read French.

Cons: PSU was dead when I got the kit. It would power up the fans, but that is it. Apparently there is some discussion on the web about a "white wire" missing on the ATX connector as the reason for the boot failure. I'm not sure. I just put in another PSU that I had and it works great. I didn't want to deal with the hassle of shipping it back just for a $30 PSU.

Bench marks were not as good as I had initially thought they would be. 3DMark05 was only 7500. I'm running a FX-55 CPU with an eVGA 7800 GT video card. Nothing overclocked. Memory is Corsair 2-2-2-5 DDR 400. Large for a SFF unit, but looks cost.

Other Thoughts: The mobo manual states that only certain video cards are compatible with this board. My 7800 wasn't on this list, but there were no issues with my card. I'm not sure if that would be a problem with any of the newer cards or not. I would go to the Foconn website and dl the mobo manual to look at the SHORT list of approved cards.

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