Nforce 2 motherboard

[Neo]

Has anyone seen a motherboard manufactor(can't spell) that is using the IGP(Intergrated Graphic Process) north bridge and the MCP2-T south bridge(with firewire, ata133, serial ata, USB2, Audio Processor)

I have seen a few out that don't have the IBP north bridge. I know Intergrate any suck in most peoples book, but I feel the Graphics will be better than my geforce 2 mx 440 I have.

[blitz]

integrated graphics also kills your ram performance... which is why it's worth spending $70 for a r8500.

[Neo]

THe nforce has a dual ddr memmory channel which provides the power. The reference board intergrated graphics are better that a geforce 4 mx 420 but not as good at a geforce 4 mx 440. It beats the ati 9000 in some test and this was the reference.

[CyberdynSystems]

I am also very interested in this ShadowDragon. Unless you want to build your ultimate gaming machine, the integrated graphics should be more than enough,. even for palying games. No you wont win the 3Dmark 2002 contest,.. but it'll play most games out today with little effort. I'm looking at the Abit NF-7s right now,.. with onboard everything -except grafics- The dual channel RAM seems a brilliant solution. I need to read some revues though,.. see if it really works!

[Neo]

I was looking at some that would give me a better motherboard and better video(I have a geforce2 mx 400 32mb) for the best money. If I could pick one up for 200 then It would save me money. It looks like Epox has the only board with the IGP north bridge. I don't know how long until it is out.

[Stargazer]

I just finished building (today)

Asus A7N8X nforce2
2600+ 333 XP
2 x 512 Corsair pc3500 c2
WD 120Gig HD
Gigabyte Radeon9700pro 128mb
Burner/DVD Plextor

Oh boy does this puppy go.
I'm doing burn-in loops out of the box
at 2187 (175 x 12.5) and there's plenty
more to give.

With the money I saved not going intel 2.8, I got the Koolance Exox water setup
and the cpu under load is 27c.

I'm heading back out tomorrow so I'll just leave it run at this level for a week and see how it goes!

[jema]

Seems to me with PCs these days that there are very few games that need bleeding edge performance, and that the price savings you make by trailing just a little behind are vast :) This means that if you enjoy playing with different systems you can have twice the fun!

jema

[BigBen]

Hi Stargazer,
Does that Asus A7N8X allow you to run raid as I am thinking of getting that mobo

Regards

[Fireblade]

Doesn't look like it does BigBen... if this overview (http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7n8x/overview.htm) is anything t' go by... I can't see any mention of RAID at all?

[BigBen]

Thx annihilator I had read that but places on the net do mention raid but i am not sure if its to with the serial ata 150 ...... any idea where to get serial ata 150 hard drives? or a nforce2 mobo with raid support

Regards

[Fireblade]

An nForce 2 board I can help ye with BigBen... but I don't think ATA 150's will be available here (UK) 'til sometime in the New Year unfortunately :(

I've found three UK suppliers of the Asus A7N8X Deluxe (x8 AGP+Lan+6Channel Sound+SATA+1394+SATA-RAID+USB2) - the cheapest of which is Tekheads (http://www.tekheads.co.uk/tekheads/product?id=601247) at £103.02/£121.05 inc VAT - however... they're citing a 9-day delay on it!

Overclockers (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_AMD_Motherboards_68.html) are selling it for £107.55/£126.37 - and are expecting them in tomorrow (2nd Dec) ;)

And finally... Scan (http://web6.scan.co.uk/Products/Info.asp?WPID=46535) are advertising it for £105.00/£123.38 :thumbsup:


[edit] as I indicated above... that's despite Asus' own website not mentioning RAID support on the board :rolleyes:

[Stargazer]

This board does have the serial raid support but only Seagate has made mention of releasing sata drives in January. There are converters but I
didn't see the point at this time.

[fragallrocks]

I am thinking of upgrading just my mobo to an nForce2 then adding newr bits as I get money together, the dual channel mem should give decent performace dispite the fact I will still be using the DDR 266 from my old sys. It will be intresting to see the benchmarks between the two.

[GITster]

damnit i want an nforce2 with a 9700 and a >XP2000...

i can juuuuuuuust about afford one, but my main problem is what do i do with the old one? Akward to sell it (as i'll want to keep the bits - hdd, monitor psu etc.) Can't keep it (never be able to afford new hdd, psu, monitor etc).
Usually i just give my old bits to my dad and he gives me some money for them (usually more then they're worth :D). but he won't take them any more :(

ho-hum...

[Squeaky]

same thing for me Gitty..i usually pass on my stuff to dad to help finance my next upgrade...but *I* persuaded him to buy a new pc for himself !doh!

I too am finding it difficult not to pick up an nforce 2 and an XP2400+ - not having overclocked for sometime I may even wait for the 333 2600 price to drop so i dont have to bug all you guys with how far can you push a 2400 ;)

oh buggrit...im gonna whine like hell at home this evening about my old man having a better pc than me now and see where that gets me....

[Baptizer]

Hello Guys..
I just purchased the EPOX nforce2 board. I'd be happy to report some results...it will more than likely be teamed up with a 2600xp 333 and 512mb corsair xm 3500(will get another stick of 512mb in a month).

I am workin on the water system now, and I hope to overclock this sucker to the extreme!

[data]

Hi ppl
will be building later today
Epox 8RDA+/XP2600+/Ati 9700Pro/Corsiar XMC 3500 2 x 256Mb (will give me 128bit rather than normal 64 bit)/Maxtor 120Gb/ - should be good for a cpl of G@H units

[GITster]

Originally posted by data
Hi ppl
will be building later today
Epox 8RDA+/XP2600+/Ati 9700Pro/Corsiar XMC 3500 2 x 256Mb (will give me 128bit rather than normal 64 bit)/Maxtor 120Gb/ - should be good for a cpl of G@H units

That is almost exactly the system i'm looking at getting (apart from XP2400 for me)...

...if i don't buy a mountain bike instead

[GITster]

well you can strike my last post from the record, i just bought this:

http://ebay2.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EBAY_c9dde4434bbce535572fa97a94c7be15/i-1_B.JPG

MMMMmmmmmmmmmmm :D

[BigBen]

errr can u overclock it? :D

Regards

[Fireblade]

NOOOOOOooooooooo... how could you put a bike (no matter how good it looks/works) before a system which would've included Epox 8RDA+/XP2600+/Ati 9700 Pro/Corsiar XMC 3500 and a 120Gb Maxtor :jawdrop: :scratch: :D

I hope ye get blisters where they hurt :p

[GITster]

Carbon fiber frame, air shocks, full XTR, Chris King heatset, Flight deck cyclo-computer (tell you what, i'll try and over clock that) and ceramic rims.

'Tis a think of beauty. All at a snip of £920.

[BigBen]

yeah but i always get a sore arse :D and please no obvious comments about that hahahahhahahaha :D

Regards

[Rids]

but it's so tempting :cunning:
to comment that is, not your arse :p

[GITster]

Just taken delivery of the beast

:D

MMmmmmmmmmmm oooh ha ha ha he he

[malcolm]

Got my Christmas present to myself up and running yesterday, ASUS A7N8X mobo (not the deluxe one), XP 2000+, and 2 sticks of generic DDR333. I'm waiting for prices to drop before investing in a 2800 and some of that lovely Corsair 3500 memory!

All the same this baby really flies. It has replaced a KT7A with 1.0 AXIA, mostly running at around 1.4. I haven't started playing with OC possibilities yet, that can wait for a few days, but it has already crunched my first sub 3 hour seti wu! OK so it was a high angle one, but very pleasing all the same.

Initial Sandra scores (previous rig in brackets):

CPU bench: 4605/2295 (3888/1954)
MMX bench: 9185/10142 (7777/8385)
MEM B/W: 2043/1922 (1036/1039)

Only probs during the load of XP was a reluctance to read the ASUS set-up disc, and I set a new partition to active by mistake and killed the boot next time round! Recovered thanks to the Microsoft Knowledge base. How did I ever build a PC without access to the 'Net!

[bubbadog]

Originally posted by GITster
Just taken delivery of the beast

:D

MMmmmmmmmmmm oooh ha ha ha he he


I'll assume you mean the bike and not Big Ben's arse. ;)

[BigBen]

Originally posted by bubbadog
Originally posted by GITster
Just taken delivery of the beast

:D

MMmmmmmmmmmm oooh ha ha ha he he


I'll assume you mean the bike and not Big Ben's arse. ;)

hahahahahahhaahha :D buttock clenching time :D

Regards