There are always new products on the way in IT industry. The highest performance today will become average within half a year. Therefore, striving for highest performance is not practical when purchasing a PC. The best way is understand what you need and how deep your packets are. The i946GZm-DF from AOpen Inc. is build for those who know what they need. It gives you a wide range selection of Intel processors and add-on cards from high to low end. It's very easy to setup and upgrade your system.

AOpen i946GZm-DF adapts socket 775 supporting Intel Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, Pentium 4, and Celeron D processors with 800MHz FSB. Intel 946GZ and ICH7 chipset provide DDR2 667/533 dual channel memory up to 4GB and GMA 3000 with DirectX 9.0c support ensures smooth running of Microsoft Windows Vista. For more demanding 3D performance, there is a PCI Express x16 slot for the latest display cards from both ATI and nVIDIA. And for great audio, an Azalia 7.1 channel codec is build on-board.

Personal computer today is a digital media integrator, such as pictures from digital camera, videos from digital camcorder, music from CDs, and so on. Thus, various connect ports are required, and i946GZm-DF equips 8 USB 2.0 and 1394 ports that can easily hot swap many external media devices. The Realtek Gigabit PCI LAN Chip ensures a high speed network connection via Giga-flow.

The combinations of components for i946GZm-DF are rich, from pricy high end CPU with PCI-E graphics card to economic CPU with on-board display. If you are among those who know what the need, AOpen i946GZm-DF is the best choice.