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Anthony1234   02-02-2003 at 01:56:53 PM

Hi, I was going to, after reading all the reviews and was going to get the A7N8X board. But then I joined this forum and see like so many people with problems with this board. Some suggest that it was the PSU, some say it was the board, others say it was the memory. So I'm wondering if
it is actually this board that causes the problem? Or is it the whole dualDDR thing not being stable?

If it is the former then maybe I get a board to run a p4 and RDRAM instead. If the latter then I get a leadtek board instead with Nforce2.

I know no one knows for sure just asking for opinions.

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tRiXtA   02-02-2003 at 07:46:50 PM
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Hi Anthony

If you are worried about ram stability, Corsair has released batches of ram, that have been tested and garanteed to work in Dual Channel N Force2 mobos, therefore eliminating the worry of the ram causing instability.

<A HREF="http://www.corsairmemory.com/main/PR_twinx.html" target="_new">Corsair Twin Channel DDR</A>

There is the link to read up on this.

Good Luck.

Rob

<b><font color=red>Nothin like a Pentium II furiously churning out a blistering 0.8 FPS on 3D Mark 2001!!!</font color=red></b>

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moogleman   02-02-2003 at 08:21:39 PM
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I overcame my problem with this board by simply changing the slots in which my memory was in. Originally I tried 2 and 3, not I'm using slots 1 and 3 and it's working great. I'm very impressed with this board so far, I've only ran a few benchmarks though. BTW I'm using 2x OCZ 512MB PC3500 EL.

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Crashman   02-03-2003 at 05:37:19 AM
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The problems I've seen don't really indicate a problem with the design. I've seen mostly issues such as "can't boot with PC3500" caused by BIOS not being able to interpret the SPD values of PC3500, requiring manual configuration. I've also seen a few defective boards, which would indicate a quality controll problem, not a design problem. Your chances of getting a defective board are relatively small, and you now know better than to use PC3500 unless you're willing to manually configure it.

<font color=blue>There are no stupid questions, only stupid people doling out faulty information based upon rumors, myths, and poor logic!</font color=blue>

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Anthony1234   02-03-2003 at 08:28:50 AM
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What if I use PC3500 and get the latest bios? Will it run games faster? I know this may sound stupid but from people I know their experience is that PC3500 isn't all that great. I don't know if they just didn't set it up right or is it the ram's fault.

THere'll be a guy who can help/teach me to configure it but he isn't going to mess with the hardware directly I don't think just type on the keyboard and maybe flash bioses

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Crashman   02-03-2003 at 08:56:22 AM
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I'd just get PC3200.

<font color=blue>There are no stupid questions, only stupid people doling out faulty information based upon rumors, myths, and poor logic!</font color=blue>

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kinney   02-03-2003 at 10:50:15 AM
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i gave up on asus along time ago.

try the epox (or leadtek).. its what i use and flawless since day one.

Athlon 1700+, Epox 8RDA (NForce2), Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 80GB 8MB cache, 2x256mb Crucial PC2100, Geforce 3, Audigy, Z560s, MX500

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Makaveli   02-03-2003 at 11:24:34 PM
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I'm using the A7n8x Deluxe and have not had any issues have 350Watt enermax
PC2700 DDR
Radeon 9700 Pro.

not sure why the reasons people are having issues with it but this is still the best AMD board i've ever used.

My specs
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=16172" target="_new">http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=16172</A>

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qpbt   02-05-2003 at 06:25:57 AM
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the mobo running good in pc2700 and might da same in pc3500 but not tat well in pc4000 with its bandwidth handling


The Myth Has Fall and The Evil Just Arrise

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Hadi   02-05-2003 at 09:06:36 AM
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I have an A7N8X DLX and I had lots of problems in win 98. It seems I should had taken a special path to configure it for win98 as this is mentioned in ASUS site but I didn't see it untill I got an win XP and now it works flawlessly.
There is no problem whatsoever in my system.
I have a recommandation for you. maybe this is not important at all but you can look for revision 1.04 of this board. As I know this is the latest revision and I own one of this.

<font color=red>listen to me or wait for the next patch!</font color=red>

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