Abit AN7 or NF7-S?

[Tim]

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Looking for a motherboard which will do over 200FSB without having to
mod it and is rock solid stable.

Usually I use Asus boards but the equivilent A7N8X boards while solid
require chipset voltage mods to get much over 200. Most of the ones
I've seen will only push to maybe 206 without mods while my current
board will only reach a rather pathetic 202.

I'm looking to get around the 220 mark (I've already got the RAM to do
this).

 

[Guest]

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Tim wrote:
> Looking for a motherboard which will do over 200FSB without having to
> mod it and is rock solid stable.
>
> Usually I use Asus boards but the equivilent A7N8X boards while solid
> require chipset voltage mods to get much over 200. Most of the ones
> I've seen will only push to maybe 206 without mods while my current
> board will only reach a rather pathetic 202.
>
> I'm looking to get around the 220 mark (I've already got the RAM to do
> this).

Just for laughs, and to save a few $, look at the Shuttle AN35N Ultra.

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-150-045&depa=1

--
FRH

 

[morgan]

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To weigh the odds as much as possible in your favour, with still not
guarantees, I would go for....

1. DFI Lanparty II Ultra B
2. Abit NF7-S Revision 2

Either of the above boards, the DFI being more expensive but comes with more
features, bios settings and package, are renowned for being particularly
good at attaining high and stable FSB with the right memory and CPU.

I have got both the above boards. I also have the Asus and wouldn't suggest
that for the reasons that you list.

From what I have read there seems to be a number of people who have both the
AN7 and the NF7 that the NF7 overclocks higher and with more stability,
tough call though as there are others who have achieved very good results
with it. Be aware that there is also another revision of the Abit NF7 on
sale and early reports are that this is not a good board for overclocking,
as well as missing the Soundstorm chip and other features within the bios
like multiplier adjustment, from what I have read.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/products.php?categories=1&model=204


Regards



Morgan

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[BUFF]

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"Morgan" <morgan@home.net> wrote in message
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> To weigh the odds as much as possible in your favour, with still not
> guarantees, I would go for....
>
> 1. DFI Lanparty II Ultra B
> 2. Abit NF7-S Revision 2
>
> Either of the above boards, the DFI being more expensive but comes with
more
> features, bios settings and package, are renowned for being particularly
> good at attaining high and stable FSB with the right memory and CPU.


Unfortunately most people find the DFI's are very finicky boards (there are
a lucky few of course who have no problems) - in my case it took a new CPU,
new RAM & 2 new PSUs to get a really good overclock.
They are capable of superb performance if you are prepared to spend
time/money fine tuning but also have more than their fair share of problems.

NF7's & NF7-S's I would venture are better "out of the box" (heck, even 1
of DFI's own tech support had given up on his Infinity & was running an
NF7-S V2.0 at home).
The AN7 also looks to be maturing nicely now that it's been around a while &
experience has built up.
The new NF7-S2 & NF7-S2G look to be severely hamstrung by their BIOS at the
moment (no Cl2.0, no multiplier options & limited Vcore) although that could
change with a new BIOS release.
As has been stated they lack SoundStorm but SATA is now native rather than
through the PCI bus.