8RDA+ installed perfectly...

[Bonesdad]

Just put in the new board yesterday. Not a single major hitch. My system:

8RDA+ (upgraded from K7S5A)
XP 2100+ (not OC'd yet)
Thermalright SK-7 topped by Panaflo L1A
2x256MB 2100 DDR from Crucial (soon to be PC2700)
Gainward GF4 4200
LiteOn 52x CDROM (soon to be DVD)
LiteOn 48x24x48x CDRW (soon to be DVD RW)
Win 98SE (soon to be XP Pro)

Wanted to post a good story since only problems seem to pop up here.

The board installed flawlessly. I purchased it from Newegg earlier this week...it actually shipped with 3/05/03 bios! Fine with me since now I don't have to flash for a while. Did some case cutting with my dremel before installing, so I had to strip the entire computer out before putting it all back. That's the fun part isnt it? Also got some new round IDE cable.

Didn't have a single problem with install. Drivers installed from CD ROM sent with board. I then downloaded 2.03 drivers from Nvidia along with 43.85 Detonators. The 2.03 NForce drivers errored out when I ran it. Got around that simply by using Winzip to extract the files THEN running driver setup.

What am I gonna do with all these PCI slots? Dumped my cheapie sound card for the onboard sound, and dumped my Linksys ethernet card for onboard LAN. I currently have NO PCI cards...tho thinkin about the Leadtek Winfast Deluxe TV card.

8RDA+ has been a great board for me so far.

 

[mechBgon]

 

[MARMADUKE]

so you have the new crush c1 NB chip(ships with 3/5 bios and is all black chip) in that baby you should get 205fsb-234 out of box

 

[SpideyCU]

I currently have NO PCI cards...tho thinkin about the Leadtek Winfast Deluxe TV card.

That's funny, that's the only PCI card I have too. Thinking about moving my SCSI controller and driver over from the Linux box, though. All that free PCI bandwidth...might as well.

 

[Bonesdad]

How do you like the Winfast Deluxe?? Been thinkin about it for quite a while, there was always another upgrade tho.

 

[SpideyCU]

It's been great so far. I record lower-quality shows (cartoons and such, when I want Futurama or whatever) directly to DivX. I really like not having to capture and then later re-encode to DivX in a separate step, though I do hack together a direct-stream-copy from VirtualDub to cut out the commercials and sync the sound. Sometimes the sound doesn't match the video when I capture to DivX, but changing the framerate in VirtualDub ("Change so audio and video durations match") fixes it quickly, and that's the only problem I've run into. For higher-quality stuff, the MPEG-2 capture is fantastic (I've never had audio-sync problems with MPEG-2). It takes up a lot of room at Optimal Quality (around 2.5 GB per hour!), but it's worth it for me. I'm just waiting for DVD burners to fall under the $100 mark. I know my hard drives are just itching to fail one of these days and I'd like to have long-term videos stored on a separate medium.

Honestly, for the price, I think it's great, especially considering the nightmare I had with other capture cards. The ease of the interface and the abilities of the software that comes with it are what sold me. The extras, like the remote (more functions than I can ask for), are just icing on the cake. I've got two computers in my room here, so, having one monitor double as a TV saves a lot of space!