Up Close & Personal

ABIT provides the essentials needed to bring this box to life. You will get supporting drivers, utilities and resources, along with the necessary cables and connectors.  Don't expect games and DVD software with this product, ABIT has targeted this board to the system integrators and entry level enthusiasts looking to build budget systems for the home and office.

The contents are straight forward and to the point. No need for coupons, vouchers, UV parts and or gimmicky contents. ABIT gives you wait you need and does so with the NF95. You get the typical user manual, SATA cables, IDE cables, I/O ports and supporting hardware drivers.

Straight out of the box, here we see the NF95 in its anti-static wrap. At first glance we see one 16x PCI-e slot, 3 PCI slots, two ddr slots and the 939 pin socket.  Looks like the typical nForce board to me. Let's get a closer look.

For a budget board this product packs some features and specification found on higher end products. Don't let the Micro-ATX size fool you, while the chipsets and board is budget minded, this system can  put out scores with the best of them with the right hardware. But our focus will be out of the box experience. So basically we will stuff some budget hardware and take a  look at what we got.

With prices dropping like fly's since the introduction to AM2, this board can dish out a serious amount of CPU power depending on the amount of money you want to spend. Here we see a close up of the peripheral interconnect area along with the aging socket 939. The nForce 410 northbridge is passively cooled as seen below.

Yes, the MCP51 chipset is passively cooled, considering the integration of the GeForce 6100 GPU, this is a twist. We have onboard video and memory controller that runs cool enough for passive cooling. Hmmm does the system run cool? Absolutely. The nForce410 is very efficient and runs very cool considering.