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Unusually for a motherboard, Sparkle's nForce2 400 is available only in the UK at the present time. The nForce2 400 is the first motherboard from a company well established in the graphics card market sector.
Neatly laid out on an ATX format PCB, the nForce2 400 has - surprise, surprise - an nVidia nForce2 400 + MCH at its heart, and uses a plain, passive heatsink to keep cool.
A single memory channel option for AMD's Duron, Athlon and Athlon XP range of processors, with support for CPUs with FSB speeds of 266, 266, 333 and 400MHz, the nForce2 400 also provides support for the three DIMM slots and can accept a maximum of 3GB of either PC2100, PC2700 or PC3200 DDR memory.
Feature-wise the board is basic, but there is nothing wrong with that. If you just want the basics, why pay a whole lot more for features you're never going to use. There's no SATA or RAID but there are integrated graphics, 10/100 Ethernet and 5.1 audio.
The back panel holds two USB ports but the board will support up to six, and there are five PCI cards for expansion.
The nForce2 400 - Sparkle's first venture into motherboard manufacture - is easy to set up and, more importantly, ran stably under test conditions.
If you are looking for a no fuss, low-cost board for AMD's processors, then the nForce2 400 is a worthy competitor in a crowded market.
Contact: Overclockers UK (0870) 443 0880
www.overclockers.co.uk
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