Asus A7N8X Deluxe Athlon Motherboard Review
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 12/04/2002 11:07 PM [ Print | 1 comment(s) ] · 1094 views
Techseekers.net take a look at the A7N8X Deluxe. The nForce2 board from ASUS.
Today We are going to look at the A7N8X Deluxe from ASUS. It is based on the nVIDIA nForce2 SPP Socket A chipset for AMD Athlon processors. As with most high-end motherboards nowadays, they are packed full of extra goodies. The A7N8X Deluxe is no different. With 8X AGP, DDR400 support, SATA Raid, Firewire, USB2.0, Dolby Digital Sound, and 2x onboard LAN ports, the A7N8X has to be one of the most feature rich boards for Socket A at present.
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Today We are going to look at the A7N8X Deluxe from ASUS. It is based on the nVIDIA nForce2 SPP Socket A chipset for AMD Athlon processors. As with most high-end motherboards nowadays, they are packed full of extra goodies. The A7N8X Deluxe is no different. With 8X AGP, DDR400 support, SATA Raid, Firewire, USB2.0, Dolby Digital Sound, and 2x onboard LAN ports, the A7N8X has to be one of the most feature rich boards for Socket A at present.
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boyfreebie Unregistered |
#39565 Posted on: 12/05/2002 01:48 PM
i'm running one of these babies, and i've gotta say, using 2x256 DRR modules for TwinBank gives a noticable improvement over Single DDR. I'd definitely recommend the board to anyone considering a new Athlon system - it can support up to DDR400 (and TwinBank for Dual DRR), has serial ATA, onboard RAID, AGP 8X (hence the name..) and sound is meaty  roughly 95 dB SNR i think..
Performance in Windows is blistering, even with all the nicities turned on.. games, rock - 1024x768 with everything turned on the Highest setting under UT2k3 and it not only *looks stunning* but plays so smoothly it's gotta be wrong! off to run a Sandra benchmark
Although... the DualNet's a bit dodgy - tried disabling the network bridge in Network Connections (XP tends to tie the Firewire & Lan connections together) I rebooted the machine  ..stability isses to do with drivers, I suppose.. ==X for a new rev soon.
Spec. Ath 2100+ (1.73 GHz) 512 MB DDR 266 MHz (nForce2 works optimally when external mem freq and FSB are same, so if you go for a 2600+ or higher with a 333 MHz FSB, go for 333 MHz RAM) GeForce4 Ti 4200 Win XP if anyone's interested, the setup can be got for under £400 from komplett.co.uk (not including case) |
