ASUS A7N266-C (nForce 415-D Chipset)

[koneill]

I have to attest to the quality of this board, too. I've been using one, and it's just simply awesome. It's so freakin' stable, haven't had a single lock-up or blue screen, the IDE performance is as good as with any Intel board, and I just got a sample of NVIDIA's forthcoming nForce-based sound upgrade, which is used in an nForce's ACR slot (CNR-equipped boards need not apply). The sound is AWESOME. Still needs some tweaking, but EAX is great, the sound separation is superb, and my DVDs have never sounded better.

This board is just the straight-up shiztnit!

As far as I'm concerned, VIA can have their garabage all to themselves.

Gimme nForce 815-D!

 

[TrajanDacicus]

Ksoth, the mobo only accept video card with 1.5 V Agp. Check to know if all is correct. Dunno if yours is 1.5 v.
One friend gave me this mobo for tests :
-sound is very good, better than my SB live
-bios is realy good, u keep pci bus to 33mhz that allow good overclocking
-Twinbanks rocks +30% better with 2x256 Mushkin pc 2400
Unfortunetly no lan on board.

 

[airbus]

koneill -

What nVidia sound upgrade are you talking about?

I haven't heard of it; could you give some more information.

The board comes with an ACR card, right?

Is the upgrade just better digital/analog converters?

 

[Valis]

I just bought the A7N266-C and I have two questions:

How/where can I find solderpoints to make myself a SPDIF in, as it already has SPDIF out?

At boot it displays: 480MB + 32MB shared. What is that? Is that a consequence of the crippled
nForce integrated video mem that still has to be active? If not, how do I disable it?

Thanks in advance

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

Valis, could it be that installed drivers for an nForce board with integrated video?

 

[Valis]

Drivers for the nForce integrated video In the bootup screen, and just after booting generic linux,
hmm I think not.

But if you want me to be absolutely sure I can boot OpenBSD or FreeBSD instead.

Cuss it says around 480 total mem when I have just logged into linux.