| DFI NB70-SC Spec Sheet |
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| Part Number | NB70-SC |
| Manufacturer | DFI |
| Price Check | Find Best Price |
| Downloads | BIOS
Drivers
Manuals |
| Chipset | Intel 845 845S(SDRAM) 845D(DDR) |
| North Bridge | Intel 82845 MCH |
| Socket | Socket 478 |
| Processor Types | Celeron, Pentium 4 |
| Number of CPUs | 1 |
| Front Side Bus | 400MHz |
| Memory Type | DDR, SDRAM |
| Memory Channels | Single |
| Maximum Memory | 3GB |
| External Graphics | AGP4X |
| IGP | None |
| South Bridge | Intel 82801BA ICH2 |
| Audio | 2-channel |
| IDE | 100/66/33 |
| SCSI | None |
| SATA | None |
| RAID | None |
| LAN | None |
| Firewire | None |
| USB | USB 1.1 |
| Expansion Slots | |
| BIOS | AWARD |
| Form Factor | ATX |
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| DFI NB-70-SC Scores |
| Features | 9/40 |
| Ergonomics | 5/10 |
| Stability and Compatibility | 25/25 |
| Package & Support | 10/10 |
| Performance | 7/15 |
| Total | 56/100 |
DFI is known for their OEM name branding and has not quite caught on yet in the end user marketplace, due mainly to their lack of channel sales. These are the people who have been making motherboards for all the major come-in-a-box computer companies for the past decade, and usually make stable but slow performance motherboards. This is due to the OEMs system integrators needs for stability not speed, a task DFI has done well.
This board has even less features than the Asus board. It probably will not take off too strongly in the U.S retail market due to its very vanilla features. This is a product that still smells strongly like OEM stuff to me. That is okay for the mission of pure stability, but for power hungry enthusiasts this board will get passed by time after time because of its performance limitations and lack of control features.
It does have on-board sound but lacks many features offered by others in the same class of motherboard so it is just a very average product. There is nothing bad however to really say about it other than that. It is stable, reliable, and very user friendly. These guys just need to focus on more what an end user looks for in a motherboard for their system and make the appropriate changes. This board did score third in the performance tests so it is not a slow board either. Just another plain Jane is the NB-70 I am sad to say. A board better left to the OEM or business market.
