ASUS A7N266 or A7N266-E which is better?

yoyo123

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Apr 20, 2002
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I just bought the A7N-E. It is Ok. I have two problems

1. The onboard sound (nvidia) -- as far as I can tell only the digital works in surround. The analog outputs for the rear channel and the center channel do not work. I believe this is a driver issue -- because of this review I read. http://www.digit-life.com/articles/nvidianforcemcp/ 2/3 of the way down they talk about it not working for them and show a screen shot of it enabled on another review (anands)

I am going to call asus to see what the problem is.

2. Overclocking -- I read that this was a great overclocker. I am still working on it, but I believe only the very newest board revision is the one that overclocks the best. I cannot get over 150. This week I am going to unlock my cpu to see if it is holding me back. (I don't believe it is but we will see)

Ts
 

Athlon4all

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A7N266-E. The A7N266 has no On-Board LAN, and uses C-Media Sound Chip, and has very poor overclocking. Whereas A7N266-E uses the nForce APU, has on-board LAN, and is maybe the best overclocking nForce/KT266A board avialable. I'd never get the A7N266. If you need something cheaper than A7N266-E, go pickup a MSi K7N420 Pro. Great board with LAN, nForce APU and is usually cheaper than A7N266-E, although it doesn't oc well at all.
 

DieHardware

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Its the A7N266 thats onsale here, so I'll tell my friend its not worth buying, thanks for the heads-up A4all. :)