DFI has come a long way. As one of the leading 2nd tier manufacturers, they have been actively innovating and implementing new stuffs onto their boards. This is very apparent on their latest flagship product series DFI LANPARTY.

LANPARTY NF2 Ultra, as it names implies caters for the gamers in mind that goes to lan parties. With a very well packaged box of goodies, it definitely deserves a mention here. The package comes standard with the some extras that you have never thought of. It bundles a carrying case PC Transpo which allows you sling your PC barebone and bring it to wherever you like. The box also comes with glowing rounded cables. It not only increases air flow, it also makes your box outstanding among all the boxes among your friends. It also comes bundled with a FrontX which you can mix n match the connectors to be mounted on it. Based on the nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset, this mainboard supports AGP 8x, Dual Channel DDR400, Dual 10/100Mbps LAN, 6 ch audio, IDE RAID 1.5, SATA, IEEE 1394, 6 USB 2.0. Most importantly, this board has Genie BIOS which allows you to fine tune your multipliers, fsb, voltages. Multipliers can be tuned up to 22x, FSB to 300MHz, Vcore up to 2.0v etc.

IN our tests, we will compare it with EPoX 8RDA3+, Gigabyte 7NNXP, ASRock K7S8X and SiS 748 Reference board.