A7N8X-E Deluxe experiences? or other motherboard recommendations?

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

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From: "Randy Kelsoe" <randykel at swbell.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: A7N8X-E Deluxe experiences? or other motherboard
recommendations?


> Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>
> >I've been thinking of getting an AMD Athlon 2600+ 333MHz FSB, and an ASUS
> >A7N8X-E Deluxe mother board.
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> I'm using a GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 mb, and it's working very well. FC1
> detected everything on install. I installed the nforce2 drivers from
> Nvidia, but did not really need to do that. This motherboard uses a
> RealTek lan chip, so the nvidia lan driver is not needed. FC1 detected
> my soundchip as an i810_audio, which worked fine. When I installed the
> nvidia audio driver, XMMS works fine, but other apps (flashplayer,
> bzflag) sound weird like the frequency has been shifted up 2 octaves,
> and there is also distortion and clipping.

I just saw a review on Tom's Hardware about this motherboard, and it rated
higher than the ASUS.  I may look into it instead.

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> You will not see a speed increase by using DDR400 with a 333MHz FSB
> Athlon CPU. It may even be slower than DDR333 (PC2700). Using
> 'dual-channel' memory will definitely be faster (almost 50% faster in my
> case).

Yeah, I've been trying to figure out why the AMD Athlon XP CPU's are 333FSB,
yet the motherboards are 400FSB?  I just saw something about the current
Barton CPU's are 333, but that 400's are due out soon?  I'll probably have
to buy my stuff in installments, so maybe I could buy the RAM this month,
the motherboard next month, and then by the time I'm ready for the CPU, the
400's will be out? :)  I *definitely want to do the dual-channel memory
thing, though.

Thanks for the input!  I don't have the money to play spray and pray, so I
appreciate the experience sharing.

Ben