Does an ASUS A7V have onboard sound?

[Breaker78]

Anyone out there have this board?

I'm looking to build a cheap duron system, and this could save some money.

How about the Abit KA-7?

I know the FIC and AMPTRON boards do, but they are too low end i think.

 

[John]

You can get the A7V (socket A) with or without sound. I have one without, but the board is flaky so I am selling it back to the shop. I have a KT7 (non raid) on the way.

The KA7 is a slotA, not socket A...it is as good as the Asus counterpart.

 

[lenjack]

The first ones released had sound, but most of the latest ones don't...they do have the multiplier dips which the boards with sound don't. I believe you can get them with sound with a little searching.

 

[wolf550e]

as far as i know, asus a7v goes like this:
1.01 sound, no dip switch, external sensor cord
1.02 no sound, yes dip switch, external sensor cord
1.03 no sound, yes dip switch, integrated thermal sensor

i havent heard of an a7v with dip and with sound. anyway, why do you want to use onboard sound?
it sounds like sh!@#$$%^&*it and eats cpu cycles!

 

[Jonny]

One example of a place that sells both of them is:



PCCanada

 

[Noriaki]

I think all new asus boards the onboard sound is optional.
The Asus A7V you can get with or without sound.

Stay away from FIC and AMPTRON. You don't want to skimp on your motherboard. I'd stick to Asus, ABit or MSi. KA7 is SlotA, A7V is SocketA both good boards but not the same, here's a round up:

KX133: Asus K7V or ABit KA7 (Slot A)
KT133: Asus A7V or ABit KT7 or MSi K7TPro (Socket A)

There is also the MSi K7T Master, but it's targetted at higher end with onbaord SCSI and FireWire.

Just a note on RAID if you look at ABit: IDE RAID right now is software RAID, so it uses CPU time to pick where the different stripes go, so IDE RAID0 is a tradeoff, you get higher disk performance, but you get some CPU used. It may help you, or it may not...apperntly there is some IDE hardware RAID on the way, that will be sweet...but software RAID isn't the greatest.

Of course none of this makes ABit a bad board, just dont' use the RAID if it doesn't help you, if you do get a KT7-RAID you can try it out, it might help you, it might not.

 

[sandorski]

If your going cheap, consider the Gigabyte mobo's.

 

[Whitedog]

". I have one without, but the board is flaky so I am selling it back to the shop. I have a KT7 (non raid) on the way.
"

uhmmm, Flaky? ...it's Rock solid Pal. Best motherboard available for Socket A. Maybe you should just try a little "tweaking"

 

[lenjack]

wolf550e....1.02 does have internal temp sensor.

 

[John]

Whitedog, I have tweaked it, and it is flaky. I have rev 1.01 w/ dip switches, but sometimes when I reboot, it is totally dead. According to what I have read in the motherboard forum, I am not the only one to have problems with the A7V. I suppose I got the bad one of the lot is all, no big deal. I will try out my KT7 on Monday and see what happens.



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