Motherboard Upgrade

[blockers]

I brought an NF7-S (v1.0) from aria.co.uk. Had lots of problems with it, as it was the first one out. In early Feburary. It broke in the last couple of months. got it RMA'ed and the kind people sent me an NF7-S (v2.0) OWNAGE

Havent had a chance to try it out, case -> li-lian PC-60 and psu -> levicom 450watt coming on monday....whoop.

Should be cool

Will

p.s. just need to get that corsair 2x256 pc3200LL twinx stuff!!.

[Trickle]

Originally posted by Howard
And I'm not buying any new RAM or anything, except maybe another identical 512MB stick for Dual Channel

here have a look at this. 2nd from bottom item is listed as.

"SoA nForce 2 ATX A L" - The blurb calls it the NF7 (note the lack of the "s") at £65 - no doubt you can shop around for it etc.

Listed as having MCP-T so you get the proper NF2 sound chip and networking, but seems to lack SATA socket and Dual channel (which you dont need as you have a single 512 dim).

There is also the ASUS A7N8X-X at £65. yes here we go. It calls it the "nForce2 400 chipset".

[Howard]

Which is the better board? A7N8X-X or the NF7-S?

[Trickle]

The NF7-S is.
The A7N8X-X has the non dual ddr chipset hence why its cheaper

What I was suggesting was that if you only have 1 stick of ram and no need for SATA then you dont necessarily have to go for a fully featured NF2 board.