Date: July 7th, 2003
Article by: Nathan Glentworth
(Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: DFI
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COMPANY CORPORATE PROFILE
DFI is an international IT expert based in Taiwan locating their Headquarters
in Hsi-Chih City. DFI which was established in 1981 under Mr. Y.C. Lu's
principal. Dedicating to servicing customer with high technology, DFI
has been earning a worldwide reputation for quality owing much to the
continuing support from our customers, suppliers and affiliates as well
as our own efforts over the past twenty years. With more than 20 years
of computer product developing and manufacturing, our team of highly skilled
engineers helps DFI position ourselves as the standard setter of price-performance
solution in the manufacturing and marketing of computer products.
PRODUCT INTRODUCTION
DFI has been known in the hardware industry and community
to be a strong player in the OEM and lower price point performance mainstream
mainboard market. Thanks to all us performance enthusiasts out there,
our united power is shifting the focus of most peripheral component manufacturers
to take advantage of a blossoming performance market which day by day,
month by month, is slowly encroaching and taking over the OEM sector.
DFI is a great case example of this trend where they were
focused on the OEM market, but due to the market shift, they wanted a
piece of the performance pie. Enter DFI's Lanparty series of performance
motherboards which take advantage of the Intel 875P Canterwood Chipset,
the Via KT400A and the nforce2 Ultra chipset. Encompassing all three of
the arguably fastest motherboard chipsets readily available today, DFI
released a surprising onslaught of top end motherboards into the retail
market.
Today, I will be reviewing the only Intel based Lanparty
motherboard, the PRO875
and will put it through its paces to see if it belongs in this higher-end
market, or whether it was a high-calibre shot in the dark.
A couple pages of reading and photos will tell the story,
and I really hope you enjoy this review....
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