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Asus Computer ATX MBD NFORCE-2 SA 1394-6PCI GETH AUD SATA RAID ( A7N8X-E DELUXE ) | List Price: $183.97
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Brand: Asus
Binding: Electronics
Warranty: 3 years warranty
Features: - Supports 64-Bit Athlon XP 3200+ and all follow-up models
- Now supports 400MHz FSB for increased productivity and digital media experience
- Dual-Channel DDR400 Support eliminates system bottlenecks with balanced architecture and peak bandwidth up to 6.4GB/s
- IEEE-1394 ( FireWire ) interface
- 6 USB 2.0 ports
Hard rock solid boards [Posted on 2005-09-11]
This board has more compatibility to various brand manufacturers' PC parts compared to other lesser grade model of ASUS boards. I have owned other A7N... product and I had a compatibility issue with the other board and other board simply didn't boot because of memory glitches(but worked well with this board). I live in the place where power voltage fluctuates once in a while. During those times, I had experienced sudden power cuts as well as sudden shutdown of computer. At a time my desktop became to a state where it plainly does not power down hard drive as the hard drive LED is still lit even though main power is off. So I had to go to the rear side of computer to switch off power supply to completely shut down the machine.
But in some time later, this all not-able-to-shut-down-business had gone away and now it snapped back to normal as before. I don't know if this was software problem or else, but I'm happy to see all the power down when turning off the computer.
On the downside, there are probably other newer model that support new cooler, less power hungry, and faster processor like athlon 64, so that you don't have to juggle around to hook up many fans for CPU not get fried by heat. There are also some work needed installing the new SATA drive as you have to use floppy disk and press F6 at the window installation to make SATA as boot drive. Manual didn't include how to install windows on SATA presumably for the fear they might have to support for what Microsoft is responsible at.
But there is a compensation for your work because you cannot ignore to notice how blazing fast SATA drives can do. there are only 2 SATA connectors built in the broads compared to conventional 4 at the newer boards.
I have used this board almost 24/7 for about 2 years and it is surviving well so far and overall I recommend to those who still has older socket A processors. It's not as cheap but it includes all the ports and accessories you want to add later, thus cutting the cost in long run.
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