LET ME START OFF with a blunt statement: DFI has never been known as an enthusiast motherboard maker. Sure, their stuff was cheap, and very reliable, and would probably do just great in grandma's PC, but the typical overclocker wanted things that DFI boards just didn't have, like, say, the ability to overclock. Hence, DFI was like the nerdy girl in the John Hughes film: You were aware of its existence, but didn't seriously consider it an option.

Of course, by the end of the John Hughes film, the nerdy girl had been magically transformed into the Really Hot Girl. Recently, DFI's products have undergone a similar metamorphosis. We've already seen the AMD side of this with the LANParty KT400A and NFII Ultra, but today we're going to look at one of DFI's Intel offerings, the LANParty Pro875, based on the Canterwood chipset. Does this 875P board wind up looking like Ally Sheedy at the end of The Breakfast Club? Let's take a look.