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Finally a company who can include a fully functional color keyed dress plate cover. This is a class act as we can get rid of that sightly shiney tin foil look of most all I/O clusters. This is nothing new but whats new is the fact its fully functional without any cutting or modifying the dress panel in order to make it fit. This one fits like a glove. Attention to small details set's things apart.

The 925X-T2 does not need a case to power up. This LANParty is factory equipped with dedicated power and reset switches. This aids in burn in periods and troubleshooting or just a convenient way to fire up the board. The power switch acts just like the main power switch on your case giving you one touch instant shut down or the 4 second force off.

Perfect for DIY (Do It Yourself) enthusiasts and overclocking fans. These are perminately attached to the motherboard and are not removable. Having this feature proved to be a blessing when we burned in the system on our tech bench.

The Karajan Audio Card is a riser card that attaches to the motherboard via 14-pin connector. This audio card is allows configured to allow front port access to systems that have front panel audio ports on there cases. This audio technology supports eight channel audio based on the Azalia 24bit 192KHz high definition audio specifications providing dynamic high quality audio, Dolby 7.1 and THX.

Karajan audio solution allows for crystal clear analog sound output even when other I/O devices are being used. DFI’s proprietary Karajan further eliminates the unwanted noise by embedding the audio codec on a separate riser card.

This technology is also input auto sensing with help from the RealTek ALC880 High Definition Audio Codec.

Enabling this feature will allow your ports to auto detect input, assisting in the input/ouput configuration.

The onboard lan features dual Gigabit ethernet controllers - Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express and Marvell 88E8001 PCI. Intergrated power management functions. Full duplex support at both 10Mbps 100Mbps and 1Gbps. Supports IEEE 802.3u auto negotiation and wire for management.

The SATA to PATA module included with the 925X-T2 provides more flexibility to the motherboard to allow you to connect an additional Parallel IDE drive.

1. Connect the IDE connector on the module to the IDE connector
at the rear of the parallel IDE drive.

2. Connect one end of the Serial ATA cable to a Serial ATA
connector on the system board and the other end to the Serial
ATA connector on the module.

Power Sources:

To run this board you will need a 24-pin ATX main power cable. This cable is not the same as the 20-pin ATX power cables used on the socket 478 platform.

If you plan to run a PCX graphics card that requires a PCI-Express power dongle, you will need to make sure your power supply supports the new 6-pin PCI-Express power dongle as well.

Motherboard Population & Features:

The 925X-T2 uses 4-phase top quality nickel inductors with 16 MOSFETs reducing heat from around the processor. The 4 R60 controllers provides stable electrical current to the system. The layout is extremely egornomic and looks really nice.

High performance VCORE capacitors from Japan helps make this board one of the most reliable high-end motherboard on the market while maintaining ultra low ESR which double the performance capabilties. These high performance resistors reduce resistance to nearly half to provide the most stable VCORE for overclocking enthusiasts.

Utilizing the latest DDR2 technology the 925X-T2 supports Dual Channel DDR2 memory modules. Memory bandwidth up to 8.5GB per second sporting a new lower voltage requirements over standard DDR, with just 1.8v. The 240-pin DDR2 sockets are sweet looking. However do to the close clearance area of the DDR2 sockets, there is a hardware installation order because of it.

You will have to make sure you install your Memory first! If you do not, the majority of the video cards out on the market today sit right next to the 240-pin sockets, thus, not allowing the memory to be install properly after you install a video card. So keep in mind that the memory go's in before the video card and you will be all set!

The 24-pin power dongle is conveniently located on the edge of the board next to the DDR2 slots. Ive seen some manufacturers put these in less than desirable places and I feel this is a great location for power the connector as it sits right next to motherboard retaining screw. This will help keep board flexing to a minimum should you have to change out the 24-pin connector for what ever reasons.

The DFI 925X-T2 is populated with UV slots and sockets, glowing brilliant orange and yellow under UV light such as from a cold cathode kit. DFI includes two UV reactive SATA cables to compliment the color scheme. Four SATA channels adorn the DFI and that makes for a nice quad RAID setup!

You will find the x16 PCI-Express slot next to two 1x PCI-Express slots, followed by three PCI slots. Next to slot PCI1 you will find the battery and the southbridge (ICH6R) chipset. Both the i925 northbridge and ICH6R southbridge are a passive heat sink design.

The Firewire is provided by the VIA VT6307 which is compliant with the latest IEEE 1394 standards with full 1394a P2000 support, and has an OHCI compliant programming interface with support for I2C EEPROMs and 4-Wire Serial ROMs. The VIA VT6307 has VIA and OHCI software driver support built into all recent Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Just to the right of the ICH6R southbridge hub, (from the angle in the above right picture) you will find 4 Serial-ATA 150MB/s connectors. This chip facilitates functions like Matrix RAID, RAID 0, 1 supporting up to four channel SATA RAID.

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