nforce 2 reliability

[UDHA]

I have seen several reviews on that new soltek motherboard, I forget the model, but it's that gold one that's really fast. I'll find the model if you all want to know, I just don't know off the top of my head, any way, In those reviews they said it had great performance, and it's overall an excelent board. I now know of 3 people who have purchased this board, and over the last few months they have between them chewed through 3 replacement boards, and 4 cpu's.

I also hear that nforce 2 is not very reliable, I am concerned, as I am (was) just about to buy one, please, if you have had an nforce 2 board for more than 2 months or near that, let me (all of us) know how it is going, any troubles? flawlessly?

1) what motherboard
2) date (how long you've had it)
3) CPU

Thanks in advance!

 

[lwj81]

1)Abit NF7-S
2)4 months
3)1700xp
Works flawlessly.For AMD,The Nforce2 is it.

 

[TKH]

1) Asus A7N8X Deluxe
2) 2 months, from February 2003
3) Athlon XP 2600+ 333FSB at 2.08GHz

If nForce2 is not reliable, then nothing will be reliable on AMD platform... you are not using Win95/98/98SE/ME right?

You never know how stupid you are until you have done something stupid enough for you to realize it.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=22996" target="_new">My System Rig</A>

 

[rook]

1) MSI K7N2-L
2) Feb 03
3) 2700XP
4) TWINX512-2700LL (Mem seems to be the source of alot of NForce probs I've read)

No problems so far. Tho I don't OC.

"Quotes are for people that can't think for themselves"

 

[soulprovider]

A7N8X Delux
6 weeks
XP24000+ running 2260mhz @ 205FSB/mem solid

Problems with several PC32000 512meg sticks which wouldn't run stable above 133mhz.

No problems using PC2700 256meg sticks.

<b>Vorsprung durch Dontwerk</b>.....<i>as they say at VIA</i>

 

[rcj187]

A7N8X Deluxe
10weeks
xp2400 @ 166*13
512MB pc2700
win98 and xp no problems at all

 

[nYak]

I too bought the soltek SL-75FRN-L board and my first one was a dud, but my faulty board was replaced by the supplier with a SL-75FRN2-L and now around 3 weeks (i know it's not 2 months but hey , i thought i'd ad it)on a AXP 2400 @ 10x200FSB with corsair twinx3200.
It seems soltek have some quality control issues to deal with , but when you get a good (which is most of the time) then they are one of the best performing and stable boards you can get and are cheaper then most if not all the other boards with the same features and performance (in australia anyway). Hmmmm I always seem to end up plugging soltek in my posts, i think they should put me on the payroll or something.
But still the nforce2 is a reliable chipset, you just have to pick the right board manufacturer , luckily ECS and other "budget board" makers don't make a nforce2 board so really most of the boards are of high quality and any problems with a bad revision will be seen well within the period of your warranty and they'll more then likely replace it with the newest revision, so not matter who you go with you always run the risk of getting that 1 in 1000000 dud.
Sorry I tend to waffle on sometimes.

 

[Auburn9698]

1) A7N8X
2) 3 months
3) 2100+

No probs. Runs like a champ.

War Eagle

 

[hineigger]

Dont expect to use an Ati card on that nvidia mb though.

 

[kmiller]

1. Soltek SL-75FRN-L
2. 2 months
3. XP 1700 at 11x166
Great board. I have always used Asus in the past, but I am very happy w/ this Soltek.

 

[RCPilot]

What?

If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!

 

[hineigger]

I was messing around. many people including me cannot get ANY ati cards to work on our nforce2 mobo, but many people are successful.

 

[khha4113]

but many people are successful.

I'm one of them.
1. Abit NF7-S rev 1.0
2. About 2 months.
3. TBred B XP2100+@2255MHz (167*13.5)
With Ati Radeon 9500 Pro

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

 

[RCPilot]

That's cool. I didn't think you were flaming because you've been around awhile & I've read some of your posts.

If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!

 

[unoc]

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
-XP 2700+ 333
-two Corsair DIMM 512 MB PC3200 CL 2.5 and Corsair PC3200 CL 2
-Works flawlessly at 180 MHz FSB and CL2 (the CPU is at 2.35 GHz)
-Radeon 9500 modded at 9700
-I tried a VIA based mobo(A7V333). The NForce 2 is some steps ahead.
The only problem is the absence of C.P.R. (CPU parameter recall) ASUS technology and if you push too much the overclocking and the board does not post, you need to open the case, take out the button battery and clear the CMOS

Principle of the highest harassment for engineers says: having two events, one bad and one favorable, with the same probability to occur, it is most probable that the bad event will occur