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I have an asus A7N8X deluxe and its driving me mad so I want to change. budget is about £50. I'm going to veer away from the buggy nforce2's...more trouble than they're worth.
I have Athlon 2100 and 2x256 of 2100 which I'd like to run dual channel if possible.
so far I've been looking at the MSI KT4 AV-L and Abit KV7 as these come with LAN and USB2 etc...but don't know about dual channel possibility
if you know of better any help would be great
cheers
Ha! I've got 3 of those "buggy" nforce2s here & ordered a 4th last night :)
(2x NF7-S V2.0, 1x Soltek 75FRN2-L & a DFI Infinity on the way)
I love them, great boards :P
u selling that A7N8X deluxe, how much?
I understand you wanting to get rid of that board cos the bios keeps killing itself but dont give up on the nforce2s. Just get an NF7-S instead like I did
Or get the A7N8X-E, I have no problems with mine! :D
hmmm...well, just lost a bit of faith in them really. my 'ikkle bro's is and nforce 1 and it works better, faster and more stable despite the fact he's running a slower cpu and less ram...
think my board is bit poo tbh. constantly crashing. I dunno. sometimes i wish I never upgraded all the bits on this machine and just gone out and bought a whole new one. less stressful. ah yeah, this hunk of metal decided to crash and not even start when I had to write out my thesis for uni. work... apply sledge-hammer here!...
if you've checked for spyware & viruses & run memtest then just RMA the board. They are bloody good when they work.
Have to admit when i had my asus a7n8x it rocked bigtime! infact all my asus boards have rocked
I think you've just been unlucky and got a duff one, go get an nf7-s 2.0 if you've had enough of the asus, nforce2 really is one of the best solutions.
really... with £50 to spare whats best then, this nf7-s 2.0 ? ... what make is it? MSI?
Abit.
aha.. ok...
Its all they talk about in the Computer Hardware and Overclocking forum! Surprised you have missed it! :)
You won't get an NF7-S V2.0 new for £50 but you will get an NF7 V2.0 (doesn't have SATA, 1394 or Soundstorm of the NF7-S or the A7N8X de Luxe)
You wont get a board anywhere near as good as an Asus A7N8X Deluxe for £50. If your board is giving you problems, RMA it, the A7N8X Deluxe and the NF7-S are two of the best AMD boards out there, so fi your board is less than impressive, its the individual board, not the whole NForce2 thing.
And if you do 'veer away from the NForce2s' you will end up with an inferior board, unless you veer into Pentium boards or 64bit boards.
You find a better board than an Asus A7N8X Deluxe on a budget of £50 and with it not being NForce2, and I'll buy it for you myself.
(I won't, of course, but you get the point) :D
Had an A7N8X del gold and a Nf7Sv2.0 - never had a problem with either board but found the nforce drivers a bit buggy - try using the original nvidia drivers as some of the later ones caused me problems
They have a NF7-S (v2.0) in the Bargin Basement bit on www.aria.co.uk for £50. It may be missing some stuff, and only has a 30day warrenty. But still. £50....
Will
You really will be hard pushed to find a faster, more stable and fully featured board than the NF7-2 V2.0, by FAR the best motherboard I have had the pleasure to use.
£60 is a small price to pay ;)
me thinks its time to contact dealer about probs and RMA...
can i ask - does the asus board av7x8 support low voltages? and - volt changin of cpu ?:)
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Originally Posted by Swafeman
I wouldn't get an A7V8X.
why not ? :p
i have attached my HD to an old board with 196 ram...don't even think components are branded! - and its comparatively kicking butt in terms of speed over the asus nforce2 i'm having probs with...
so I recon its the board. have removed it and packed it up in its box ready for either incenduary device attachment or return to ASUS with a 'give me on ethat works' tag...in fact the first one i got was faulty too (technically this is the 2nd one i've had then) and was returned the very day it was first fitted by comp. shop. if its beyond a year since purchase will asus help of tell me to get stuffed?...i know there's no proof but it failed well with in a year of purchase...just been trying to percevere with it as i've needed to use it
It is strange how you are having such problems with Asus' boards... Very strange. They are highly regarded as one of the best on the market along with the NF7-S'. Perhaps it's just a weird combination of your hardware that the board doesn't like. I'm not having any problems with it.
yeah, maybe...
i considered that - but would assume they are compatible due to the fact that a shop built it for me! all i did was specify that i wanted that asus board
i just bought the a7v8x-e
hope it works :) had a asus tuslc-2 for my old p3 system - great board
Bit late now , :( but;Quote:
Originally Posted by Swafeman
It is a KT400 board so whilst it supports PC3200 RAM it doesn't support 400FSB for the CPU.
Not sure if this is still true with later rev. but they used to be very problematic.
Personally, I've now built 4 nForce2 boards (2 NF7-S V2.0, 1 Soltek 75FRN2-L & a DFI Infinity - best is the ABIT imho) & I'm very happy with them.
the guy i got it off claims hes had it at 215 fsb, so :)
just found this :
linky
any good? seems all i need to do is plug in current stuff and away i go...looks nicer too :)
shuttles rule ! i have the exact one, really good features and really easy to set up and use
if you got the money go for it :) theres also a SN45g in bargain hunt for 109+vat which is quite good at either aria or MD
whoops, sorry its a A7V8X-X, is that better? :p
sn45g - thats the one without video right?...