DFI LP DK 790FXB-M2RSH - AMD LanParty Motherboard Review

Page 2 - Packaging, Contents and closer look at the motherboard

Even at first sight DFI warms the hearth of hardware enthusiasts.

"DARK" is written with large letters and that is the exact LanParty family that this board belongs to. On the back with extravagant (naturally) font all of its features are listed - be they special or not so.

The bundle is quite adequate. There are UV-reactive SATA and PATA cables with colour to match the one of the slot, drivers and software, manual and additional book about Auto Boost System - the DFI overclock system with friendly interface, suitable for begginers even. Mind you though when we get to talk about overclocking DFI LanParty DK 790FXB-M2RSH later we will in our arrogance ignore what that system has to offer and will rush straight to the classical overclock, as practiced by mass of people claiming to get extreme performance for little money (while often pouring them at new hardware in replacement of the one they killed). Aaanyway... Back on topic - the bundle of the motherboard - there is one more thing worth mentioning. There is a SATA driver diskette for WindowsXP. Now some of out youngest readers had probably seen one only in museums as a memory of days gone by. Seriously, it's odd to say the least when when media for such devices is provided, after all they use 20 year old standards and had ceased to be considered useful at least 5 years ago - an USB flash drive with capacity of 512MB-1GB costs nearly nothing nowadays, and is way more reliable, fast and effective compared to 1.44MB diskette.

And here is the motherboard itself. Pretty, pretty, shiny, shiny. Truly LanParty motherboards are famed as some of the most beautiful and well designed ones. The slots as we mentioned react to UV light, the cooling, though not huge still looks and performs nicely when cooling the chipset and mosfets. The capacitors are all solid-state state ones, that alone warranty for long motherboard life. The SATA ports are tilted sideways, thus helping of reducing the tangled mess of cables inside the case. There are buttons for power on and reset, quite useful should you test anything outside the computer case. There is LED display that will accurately point out as to where is the problem originating (should one does), as well as integrated PC speaker. There is also a whole bunch of 3 and 4 pin connectors all over the motherboard - you can hook-up as many as you wish and then control them by software.

Summing it all up we can say that these by themselves alone aren't all that much of a much, but combined as they are, they do show that there is a great attention for details from DFI involved, unlike with most other manufacturers that tend to leave with bitter-sweat taste and "Oh! I wish this so and so was just like that on that motherboard from the other brand" thoughts. With this board we cannot spot anything disappointing, still due to the different specific needs of everyone, we might have missed or haven't thought about something.

For this review being fair to the motherboard we used the newest AMD processor - Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition.