ASUS P4R800-VM w/ ATI RADEON 9200-based GPU

[Prototype]

Anyone have any experience with this board?

I've been searching for reviews, and can't find any as of yet.
I'm putting together a budget PC for a friend, and they'll only be using it to surf the net...so I thought this might be a good value solution.

I just don't know anything about it...if it's stable etc. so any feedback would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

 

[optimistic]

Perfectly stable and setup was flawless. I have had no chance to test the video because the system wasn't built with gaming capabilities in mind, but I heard if paired with the right chip & memory can top nforce2's integrated GF4mx. Additonaly, this board has onboard tv-out which could be helpful down the road.

The only qualms I have with this board is that there's no bios or jumper setting to select what fsb you want to run, everything is auto detect. This means you won't be able to get that edit:33% overclock with your 400fsb chips by simply having it run at 533fsb.

Hope this helps.

 

[Prototype]

Did help.

Thanks optimistic.

 

[sethos]

I just purchased this board with two 256mb PC3200 hynix ram sticks to run in dual channel mode and have had no end of trouble with it. It's been back in the shop for the last 10 days while they try and find a combination of DDR400 memory that will actually work in dual channel. I was able to get through an XP install with only minor problems, but then the system would just randomly reboot a couple times, then not even start XP. So far even the shop (very reputable high volume retailer in this area) has had no luck with stabilty in dual channel configuration. So now we are trying it with a single stick of 512mb and it seems to be relatively stable - they are still running a burnin on it as I write this. Anyway, I was really looking forward to this board/chipset, but I'm not impressed so far.