ECS KN1 SLI Extreme

The KN1-SLI Extreme is ECS’ latest motherboard designed for the Athlon 64 socket 939 line of processors. It is centered around the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset, with built-in support for the entire Athlon 64 socket 939 processor line, DDR type SDRAM modules operating in Dual Channel mode up to speeds of 400MHz officially, and PCI Express x16-based video cards operating in single card or dual card SLI mode. The KN1-SLI Extreme board is considered a feature complete solution, requiring only the following components for a functioning system: Athlon 64 socket 939-based CPU, DDR memory, PCI Express video card, drives, and PSU. The following components are incorporated into the KN1-SLI Extreme’s design: 2 IDE ATA-133 ports and 4 SATA II ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the NVIDIA RAID controller; 2 SATA II ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the Silicon Image RAID controller; 10 USB 2.0 capable ports (4 in rear panel, and 3 onboard headers supporting 2 ports each); 2 IEEE 1394 capable ports (2 onboard headers supporting 1 port each); 1 NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet port in rear panel with integrated hardware Firewall support; 1 Realtek 10/100 Ethernet port in the rear panel; Realtek 6-channel audio codec featuring S/PDIF optical and component output ports; and PS/2 and serial port support in the rear panel.