Asus A7N8X Motherboard

Well not to mention that this...

Strengths: Everything imagineable

Weakness: Asus is still using that turn brown color, not nice for us case modders out there

Well not to mention that this board comes with all of the bells and whistles, it really set the standard when it came to nForce 2 boards. This board is beautiful in everything except color. No problems, and even has to RMA a board becuase of a P/S problem, Asus was very nice and helpful in doing that. A+

By JonesSoda6 - Oct 26, 2003

Bios tends to "die" when settings...

Strengths: Power, stability, online comunity support, overclocking capability, features

Weakness: Very particular about RAM, must use top quality ONLY!

Bios tends to "die" when settings are changed frequently. Recommend use of a Ioss BIOS Saviour, "just in case". A little pricey but well worth it with all the features. 2 NICs installed, Nvidia for Max speed and lowest CPU resources needed. and 3Com for portabilty with auto switching capability eliminating need for special switching cables. The absolute best for AMD XP up to 3200 Be sure to ask...
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Bios tends to "die" when settings are changed frequently. Recommend use of a Ioss BIOS Saviour, "just in case". A little pricey but well worth it with all the features. 2 NICs installed, Nvidia for Max speed and lowest CPU resources needed. and 3Com for portabilty with auto switching capability eliminating need for special switching cables. The absolute best for AMD XP up to 3200

Be sure to ask for the latest revison when ordering, Rev 2.0 has the Nforce2 Ultra 400 chipset, Pre-2.0 boards are somewhat hit-and-miss on hitting the 200FSB mark and sometimes have issues with onboard sound. But that is to be expected since it was the 1st widely avialiable Nforce2 motherboard

By StompinRound - Oct 16, 2003

If you need to update firmware of...

Strengths: Has every option that any computer freek would want in a computer.

Weakness: nForce2 chipset not supported by all vendors.

If you need to update firmware of your CDRW, low level format a hard drive or any other option like that, the software most likely will not work with the nForce2 chipset. Examples: Maxtor hard drive low level format program offered on site does not work. Liteon firmware update put my CDRW out of commision. Both problems were repaired by putting the equipment into another system to perform the...
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If you need to update firmware of your CDRW, low level format a hard drive or any other option like that, the software most likely will not work with the nForce2 chipset. Examples: Maxtor hard drive low level format program offered on site does not work. Liteon firmware update put my CDRW out of commision. Both problems were repaired by putting the equipment into another system to perform the functions. Frustrating... The motherboard is great for operations however, the updates loaded from Microsoft and other vendors caused me a hugh amount of greef after loading. Disc copying began to malfunction. Would not complete a entire disc copy operation. Benchmarks are out of this world, but if you are going to keep your system updated with all the latest security and software updates - you will become frustrated with the lack of support for the chipset.

By Tale_Gunner - Sep 7, 2003

This board is a good board to...

Strengths: Ability to tweak memory settings

Weakness: Not enough fan headers

This board is a good board to crankup because it lets you adjust the FSB plus the memory latency settings. Along with the ability to raise or lower the multiplyer, you have a great overclockers board.I have several duel channel boards and this 1 out of them all is my choice to use for getting the maximum there is to get. I am running a 2800+ Barton cranked up to a 2140.27 Mhz with a 171.22 Mhz...
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This board is a good board to crankup because it lets you adjust the FSB plus the memory latency settings. Along with the ability to raise or lower the multiplyer, you have a great overclockers board.I have several duel channel boards and this 1 out of them all is my choice to use for getting the maximum there is to get. I am running a 2800+ Barton cranked up to a 2140.27 Mhz with a 171.22 Mhz Syatem bus and a 12.5 multiplyer. Running Duel channel corsair 512 ddr 400 and 2 10,000 rpm Raptors in raid 0 with 2 120 jigawatt 8 meg buffers western digital hard drives as backup. Plenty of power to run my Sony Dru-510A DVD-RW+RW and a 52x24x52 CDRW.I also have the Vantec thermal fan controller to turn down this tornado 6500 rpm fan that I switched on the CPU cooler. Makes it nice and easy to make things quiet. With 5 case fans and 2 power supply fans the tornado CPU fan is very noisy but it keeps everything very stable.I dont care much for the Radeon 9800 pro card that I have, seems to after searching for tall the latest drivers and everything it is unstable in the game of Medal of Honor. If I put an Nvidia card in there the problem goes away. ATI dosnt care or seem to give a crap so I think I'll just fry this card and mail it back to them to keep.

By geeek - Aug 30, 2003

First Time builder and a novice....

Strengths: alot

Weakness: some

First Time builder and a novice. Had some frustration but it has all worked out to be a great choice. I highly recommend this board. Read the reviews I got some great advice from the reviews. Even if you have some trouble, and in electronic parts there is gonna be trouble I don't care who makes it, once you get it up and running you won't be disappointed.

By chainbreaker2 - Aug 24, 2003