NVIDIA GeForce® Series

XFX NVIDIA® GeForce® motherboard GPUs (mGPUs) make the NVIDIA GeForce experience more affordable than ever. Designed for AMD platform, NVIDIA GeForce motherboard GPUs support the latest graphics technologies including DirectX® 10, NVIDIA PureVideo HD and NVIDIA Hybrid SLI.

XFX CPU Compatibility

KEY FEATURES

• DirectX® 10
• NVIDIA PureVIdeo HD
• NVIDIA Hybrid SLI

SPECIFICATIONS

PCI Express 2.0 Designed to support the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing 5 GT/s of bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 motherboards are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express products for broad support of PC peripherals.	√
AMD Designed for Intel based processors.	√
ESA-Certified Provides real-time and complete PC performance management. Tested by a comprehensive certification program for system compatibility and reliability, ESA-certified components and applications bring you unprecedented control to manage and tune thermal, electrical, acoustic and operating characteristics to maximize your PC’s performance.	√
Comprehensive Overclocking Tools Award-winning NVIDIA overclocking tools provide a complete kit of tools giving everyone from the most veteran enthusiast to the novice overclocker the ability to unleash the hardware in their PC.	√
SATA/PATA Drive Support Combine up to 12 SATA drives into 2-4 volumes for bigger, faster RAID. More drives mean more configuration options such as 2x RAID 0 for boot partition, 2x RAID 0 for enhanced gaming, 4x RAID 5 for multimedia applications, and 4x RAID5 for media data storage. Take advantage of the latest SATA 3Gb/s hard drives with full support for hot plugging and native and tagged command queuing which can provide higher disk performance in a multi-threaded environment by performing out-of-order disk accesses.	√
NVIDIA MediaShieldTM RAID Suite of features that safeguards your most important digital media assets; always reliable, scalable, and accessible. Includes support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 configurations and up to six SATA 3Gb/s drives.	√
Vista Ready NVIDIA nForce-based motherboards are perfect for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ when coupled with an NVIDIA GeForce® GPU and 512MB of system memory.	√
High Definition Audio (HDA) High definition audio brings consumer electronics quality sound to the PC delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HDA, systems can deliver 192 kHz/32-bit quality for eight channels, supporting new audio formats.	√
Networking with NVIDIA nForce NVIDIA networking delivers the highest network throughput at the lowest CPU utilization. The manageable and stable NVIDIA networking solution results in better networking management and a lower total cost of ownership. Only NVIDIA integrates this level of networking allowing you to take your online experience to the next level.	√
USB 2.0 A standard plug-and-play interface that provides easy-to-use connectivity for USB devices. Supports up to 10 USB 1.1 / 2.0 ports.	√
Onboard NVIDIA GeForce Graphics N/A	7050, 7100, 7150, 8200, 9300, Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100
Hybrid Power N/A	√
Hybrid SLI N/A	√
NVIDIA Control Panel NVIDIA Control Panel allows you to take full advantage of ESA. Easily adjust PC characteristics for maximum performance. Features NVIDIA System Monitor, so you can seamlessly monitor characteristics in an intuitive and customizable 3D environment.	√
NVIDIA System Monitor A new 3D application for seamless monitoring of PC component characteristics. Its unique and intuitive architecture is the ultimate foundation for delivering optimized system, thermal, and acoustic performance of your NVIDIA nForce based PC and ESA certified components.	√
NVIDIA nTune Now with access to more settings from this Windows-based utility, the NVIDIA nTune performance manager allows automatic tuning for optimal performance. Once configured and customized, nTune automatically chooses the right system settings for the application that is being run based on your saved profiles and personal rules.	√
NV BIOS NV BIOS delivers easy-to-use tuning to let you have full control over your hardware including processor voltage tables and memory drive strengths.	√
Multiple Disk Setup Through a simple wizard-based interface, you can effortlessly set up your drives for better data protection, faster disk access, or maximum storage capacity. MediaShield automatically selects RAID 0, 1, 0+1 or 5 configuration according to your needs. Advanced users can access RAID options directly.	√
DiskAlert System In the event of a disk failure, MediaShield users see a real-time image of the motherboard that highlights which hard drive has failed, making it easier to identify, replace, and recover.	√
RAID Morphing MediaShield allows users to change their current RAID set-up to another configuration in a one-step process called morphing. This eliminates the need to back up data and complex, multi-step processes.	√
Bootable Multidisk Array MediaShield storage fully supports the use of multi-disk array for loading the operating system at power-up.	√
NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet Connections The industry's fastest Gigabit Ethernet performance eliminates network bottlenecks and improves overall system efficiency and performance.	√
NVIDIA FirstPacketTM Technology Be the 'King of Ping' with NVIDIA FirstPacket technology. Get the crystal-clear phone conversations and online gaming performance you expect. NVIDIA FirstPacket technology assures your game data, VoIP conversations, and large file transfers are delivered according to preferences set by you in an intuitive wizard.	√
TCP/IP Acceleration Delivers the highest system performance by offloading CPU-intensive packet filtering tasks in hardware, providing users with a PC networking environment that is faster.	√
EPP 1.0 nForce 680i SLI MCP and nForce 680i LT SLI MCP automatically increases bandwidth when select SLI Certified memory modules are detected.	√
EPP 2.0 nForce 780i SLI MCP and nForce 780i LT SLI MCP automatically increases bandwidth when select SLI Certified memory modules are detected.	√

REVIEWS

GeForce 8200 wins Driver Heaven Highly Recommended

Driver Heaven Highly Recommended

In all of our desktop tests the XFX board was able to outperform the AMD 780G based product and in some cases such as the Sisoft Sandra memory bandwidth test there was a significant advantage for the Nvidia based board. The BIOS on the 8200 was also impressive and offered control of enough settings to keep most enthusiasts happy, even down to configuration of the onboard GPU clockspeed. There is also the additional benefit of the excellent support process XFX have in place which features a good warranty as well as the ability to chat online with a support representative in real-time. XFX have achieved what they set out to do, provide consumers with an alternative to the market leading solutions which are already available to buy.

GeForce 8200 wins Motherboards.org Hot Product Award

motherboards hot product 2008

For the HTPC enthusiast wanting an inexpensive motherboard with onboard graphics to play their Blu-Ray Discs on their HDMI HDTV, light gaming and everyday use, XFX’s solution offers everything you need to run a HTPC with HDMI connection, good High Definition Audio and the small form factor size, HybridPower saves energy in comparison to other motherboards without the ability to turn off the discrete graphics card. The integrated graphics of the GeForce 8200 are excellent for what they’re designed to do. The 8200 from XFX gets the job done.