As one of the first Socket 939 motherboards, the K8NSNXP-939 from Gigabyte, offers a wealth of features. The Dual Power System (DPS) has now become a permanent feature and the adoption of NVIDIA's nForce3 Ultra chipset brings hefty promises of massive hard drive support, NVIDIA's firewall and disk management.

The Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 is the first Socket 939 motherboard for Gigabyte and the new AMD Athlon 64 939-pin processors mark the next evolution and upgrade pathway for AMD. Socket 939 is the most notable feature and right in behind it is the NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra chipset. The nForce3 chipset supports up to, on this particular motherboard, 4 SATA and 2 PATA hard drives in RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 which Gigabyte has named Raid Deluxe. 8-channel audio, IEEE 1394b (800 Mb/s Firewire), Dual Lan, Gigabyte's Dual Power System (DPS Gold) and Gigabyte's ever present Dual Bios round out the other high points.

Gigabyte have two motherboards under the K8NSNXP model number. It's only the "-939" that separates the Socket 754 version from the Socket 939 version. Remember that come time of purchase else you may come home with your shiny, new K8NSNXP and discover it's for Socket 754 when you should have ordered the K8NSNXP-939 for Socket 939.

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