I bought a cheap A7N8X-X to replace a dead old KT133 board on my wife´s computer, but I ended up assembling it on mine, replacing the trustworthy Asrock SiS 746FX I got.
Well, I´m quite pleased. Relatively cheap, nicely built, excelent layout. The installation was painless, everything works as it should, it´s nice to have voltages and multiplier control back. The 2600+ is running nicely @ 2250Mhz on a 180Mhz bus. Performance took quite a boost, these nforce things are really fast. Stability is very good, it just ran a prime95 torture test without errors.
So after a bad nForce2 experience (Soltek board semi-DOA), I do recommend this board. It doesn´t have the dual-channel thingie, but this platform doesn´t really need it, the nforce2 400 actually proves to be sometimes faster than the ultra on dual-channel mode, and it give a much greater memory configuration flexibility.
Still a word of apreciation for the mighty 2 year old Crucial PC2100, that still does 180 Mhz without a hicup
Well, I´m quite pleased. Relatively cheap, nicely built, excelent layout. The installation was painless, everything works as it should, it´s nice to have voltages and multiplier control back. The 2600+ is running nicely @ 2250Mhz on a 180Mhz bus. Performance took quite a boost, these nforce things are really fast. Stability is very good, it just ran a prime95 torture test without errors.
So after a bad nForce2 experience (Soltek board semi-DOA), I do recommend this board. It doesn´t have the dual-channel thingie, but this platform doesn´t really need it, the nforce2 400 actually proves to be sometimes faster than the ultra on dual-channel mode, and it give a much greater memory configuration flexibility.
Still a word of apreciation for the mighty 2 year old Crucial PC2100, that still does 180 Mhz without a hicup
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