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    BIOSTAR K8NHA Grand nForce3 250Gb

    Considered in absolute isolation, the K8NHA Grand isn't a bad board by any means. The problem is just how well the competition is doing right now, in terms of price, features and availability. BIOSTAR needs to compete and beat well-established manufacturers at their own game.
    http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD04ODA=

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    For me the media encoding benchmark page has the previous page's memory bandwidth benchmarks.

    Enjoying the review so far....

    Edit: You don't comment (beyond the physical hardware layout) on the Gigabit ethernet configuration- presumably it's a proper setup using the 250GBs onboard Gigabit, and so should be a) fast and b) able to use the NVidia firewall?

    Also I thought the two SATA ports on the 250GB are inherently RAID-able?

    Rich :¬)
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    Bump- it hasn't been fixed yet.

    Rich :¬)

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    Hi

    new to this forum so I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere. I am not a newb to computers, but I have not used nforce chipsets before. I am building two computers at the current time and both are using this motherboard. I am using a sata hdd, but the motherboard did not come bundled with a floppy disk with the sata drivers. Now, am I missing something or what? Because when I go to install XP it loads all the inital setup then stops. I have always been supplied a floppy disk with the relevant drivers for the sata controller, so can someone please tell me what I am to do with this motherboard?

    I have tried finding out what sata controller it is, everything short of opening the case and finding it on the motherboard itself (orless of course its on the north/southbridge combined). Help??

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    That's a bit poor isn't it mate? The one from MSI here will probably work, give it a try:

    http://www.msi.com.tw/program/suppor...UID=572&kind=1

    Rich :¬)

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    P.S. out of interest where did you get the board and what did you pay for it?
    Last edited by Rave; 11-11-2004 at 05:02 PM. Reason: Can't press the edit button properly, sorry:rolleyes:

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    ok, well i got the drivers off the bundled cd, still i think it is cheap if manufacturers dont supply something that is needed. what if i was isolated, without another computer to use to copy the files from cd to floppy... not happy. ive been told a couple of other people have had this problem with different brands too. my abit kb8-max3 was bundled to the max! (mind the pun


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    P.S. out of interest where did you get the board and what did you pay for it?
    I got the board from my local wholesaler, Westan. I'm in Australia though, and the board was, according to www.xe.com:
    154.44 AUD Australia Dollars = 64.0055 GBP United Kingdom Pounds

    Not the best board for the dollars, but none other available at the time.

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    Sure our NF3 was available ?????

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