GullyFoyle
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- Dec 13, 2000
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I am not personally running this combination (until next week!), but I have seen this question answered in the affirmative.
I am not personally running this combination (until next week!), but I have seen this question answered in the affirmative.
Thanks for the great review. I sold my Dragon+, PC 2100, and XP1700. I am thinking of going the way you did. Getting a cheaper Throughbred A now then a Barton later. Do you all think I should go with 400 mhz memory now to use later with the Barton?
- Oct 31, 1999
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I guess that would not be a bad idea. Of course, by the time you're ready to get a Barton (i.e. the performance/price ratio over your T-Bred is reasonable), they will have DDR-2, and you'll need a new mobo for that, and i don't know if the nForce-2 supports 400 FSB...its not listed in the bios as an option. My philosophy is to just buy the highest quality of what I need right now. Trying to spend a little more to defend against the future is usually a futile endeavour, in my experience.
Siddhartha
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- Oct 17, 1999
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It's as easy as getting into the BIOS and increasing the FSB in increments - very simple. Occasionally you'll have to increase the CPU's vcore in order to achieve higher FSB speeds but I wouldn't go much higher than 1.75V. Set the AGP bus to 66MHz. With the Asus A7N8X motherboard, the PCI bus is already properly dealt with. And have at least DDR333 SDRAM memory. Use two memory modules in order to take advantage of the dual memory controllers.
I took some screenshots about the soundstorm utilty software, and can be found here:nforce soundstorm pictures
I called Alpha earlier today, they confirmed me that Alpha 8045 should work with A7N8X.
I have a stupid but important question, does nForce2 board work with ATI graphic cards?
I have a stupid but important question, does nForce2 board work with ATI graphic cards?
I just built an A7N8X system for a colleague with a Sapphire ATI 9000 Pro. Worked fine. I remember reading one early review where they had issues with an nVidia card but the ATI ran fine. Now that's unexpected.
I plan to pick up the A7N8X in a few days. I was waiting for the Epox as i didn't want to spend $155 for the Asus but since the 8RDA doesnt have the APU I guess i will just go ahead and get the Asus.
Snatchface, I take it you didn't get the Asus with RAID and gigabit ethernet, right?
From what I heard, you can get the higher multiplyers when you unlock the L3 bridges on the new TBreds. You don't have to unlock the L1's (already unlocked) to get the lower multiplyers so you can increase your fsb really high and use a lower mult on the new KT400 boards. Now I'm not sure if this will work the same way on the Nforce 2, but it just might.
From what I heard, you can get the higher multiplyers when you unlock the L3 bridges on the new TBreds. You don't have to unlock the L1's (already unlocked) to get the lower multiplyers so you can increase your fsb really high and use a lower mult on the new KT400 boards. Now I'm not sure if this will work the same way on the Nforce 2, but it just might.
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