Abit NF-M2 nView

A few months back we had looked at the Abit AW9D i975X motherboard, which was one of the first motherboards to come out of the Universal Abit camp. We had found this Intel flagship motherboard to be very competitive and offer a great deal of features even though it was not able to pack the equivalent punch of the legendary IC7-MAX3 or NF7-S v2.0. What we have on the table to look at today is the Abit NF-M2 nView. The NF-M2 nView is an AM2 motherboard that is powered by the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 with nForce 430 that offers both onboard DVI and VGA support along with 7.1 channel HD audio, Abit Silent OTES, and IEEE-1394a Firewire.

Features:

Processor
· Designed for AMD Socket AM2
· AMD Cool 'n' Quiet Technology

Chipset
· NVIDIA GeForce 6150 / nForce 430 Chipset

Memory
· 4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. memory capacity 8GB
· Supports Dual Channel DDR2-800 un-buffered ECC / Non-ECC memory

Graphics
· Integrated GeForce 6150 Graphics
· Support DirectX 9.0, Shader Model 3.0, nView

LAN
· NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet

Audio
· Onboard 7.1 CH HD Audio CODEC
· Auto Jack Sensing and optical S/P DIF In/Out

Serial ATA
· 4 x SATA (RAID) 3Gb/s
· Supports SATA RAID 0/1/0+1/5

Form Factor
· mATX form factor 245 x 245mm
· PCB Color: Blue

RoHS
· 100% lead-free process and RoHS compliant

ABIT Engineered
· ABIT SoftMenu Technology
· ABIT Silent OTES Technology

Contents:

In addition to the microATX motherboard was a quick installation guide, jumper settings sheet, user's manual, driver CD, driver disks, SATA cables, ribbon IDE cable, ribbon FDD cable, USB and Firewire expansion bracket, and I/O panel.