I bought this motherboard for my brother for christmas last month. I was worried that it wouldn't work a month later ya know and then you gotta deal with asus technical support.

But, I got it all together. Besides me forgetting to plug in the power switch connector on the mobo there was not one single problem. If only AMD fixed the heatsink problem, where you need 2 flat head screw drivers to take off the heatsink and risk slicing the boards traces, I would have honestly compared this setup to Intels.

It ran smoothly. I was very impressed by the nforce2. If it was VIA i would have ran into compatibility problems it happens all the time and then you gotta find special drivers and crap.

The all in one solution for the nforce2 is great. Has the drivers for everything onboard and installs them automaticly.

SO far it works great.

A couple things i'm disspointed in is the Q-fan which doesn't seem to do anything and the autoupdate which doesn't do anything but say "files can't be found" which i thought is an embaressment to asus for not supplying what it says it can do.

So far my bro loves it. Much better then his VIA POS that crashed all the time. He could surf the web and chat and thats about it.

Oh ya, the onboard solutions. My bro is using everything that is onboard. The 3com nic and the onboard sound. They both work perfectly and sounds pretty good compared to his old sound blaster live 4.1 sound card compared to this 6.1 sound from nvidia. And 3com NIC, umm it's 3com. Only thing now that is slowing my bro down is his very old 10GB hard drive that is probly slower then most cd-roms of present. heh. It think it's ATA33 but thats it, his dvd-rom is ata66 lol thats messed up.

but alright hope i didn't ramble too much! If your looking for a board look into the nfroce2 from asus. It ran perfectly and very easy to install and update the bios within windows even. Excellent board and i highly recommend it. This coming from an Intel user so this board has to be just that damn good.

Life is irrelivent and irrational.

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by xxsk8er101xx on 12/27/02 11:58 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

<font color=blue>Everytime a new computer boots clean an angel gets it's wings. </font color=blue>

<font color=red>The solution may be obvious, but I can't see it for the smoke coming off my processor.</font color=red>

Yeah, but how often does that happen? There's always something.

To start press any key. Where's the "any" key? --Homer Simpson.

<font color=red>The solution may be obvious, but I can't see it for the smoke coming off my processor.</font color=red>

Never happened to my computer before, it's only when you tweak it that it starts to show signs of wings!

Tweaking normally takes about 1 week for me to squeeze out that 99.9% performance.

<font color=red><b>If Micro$oft is sooooo smart, how come SP1 works on my Windows XP Corporate Edition huh?</b></font color=red>