Looking for a good nforce2 motherboard

[xbassman]

Originally posted by: russr
So it seems like to take the heatsink on and off with the nforce2boards since they all have the socket in the same place, one would need to remove the powersupply to have room to use the screwdriver to remove the clip/put it on.

Yeah if your case is tight....
But Dude.... if you're buyin' a new mobo is there any reason you wouldn't install the heatsink before you install the motherboard? Then the only issue would routing the atx cable.

Don't shy away for nforce for that reason.
I haven't bought a Via board since. Compared to the earlier Via solutions nforce rocks hard!

 

[russr]

the way you routed and arranged those wires in your son's case was awesome. My case looks like a hell hole compared to that and it's much bigger and roomier. I'll post a pic and maybe you can help me out.

 

[xbassman]

Actually that was a pic of my case.....
I posted a thread here that has links to more pics. You can see a bit better how I handled my wiring.

 

[russr]

the problem is that my powersupply has wires all over the place. The next thing is my ide cables, followed by the connectors for my fans. I'd post a pic, but my sister borowed my camera on vacation

 

[Swylen]

I have the NF7-S v2.0. The board was developed right as the ultra chipset came out. It was the first to use the Ultra chipset but since it wasn't certified yet they couldn't call it an ultra. Looks like they do now. The version 2's run 400fsb and that makes it an ultra.

 

[russr]

Is there a way to hook up my speakers which take a digital coax in to this motherboard's s/p dif out? It seems to be optical out (TOSLINK).

 

[Porter21]

nf7-s

 

[Concillian]

I don't have an NF7-S but it looks like from the manual on page 3-15 it explains the Front panel audio pins. There are pins for SPDIF in and SPDIF out.

After some quick googling, indeed it looks like that is the case:
http://www.motherboardfaqs.com/content.php?content.11

 

[russr]

Concillian, can you find that $8 part he's talking about? newegg doesn't seem to carry it anymore

 

[AMDnForcer]

DFI NFII Ultra Infinity is the best nforce2 board, with the chipset nvidia nforce2 ultra 400 and silicon image SATA Link Sil3114 chipset integrated, also supported RAID function. 6 channel audio and IEE 1394 firewire. The bios have 4MB flash memory that can save or load the default setting of the bios. The bechmark of this board its amazing.. the total perform is 79%, the detail is: on pcmark04=62%, pcmarks cpu test suite=62%, pcmark 2004 memory test suite=40%, pcmark hdd test suite=64%, quake demo001 normal configuration=60%. This data i got on PC Media edition 08/2004. the average cost of this board is $115. the second good speed board is DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra=$165, the 3rd is DFI NFII Ultra-AL=$75 , the 4th is Epox EP-8RDA3i=$100, the fifth is ecs n2u400-a=$65.

good luck then.

ps: the Shuttle AN35N-Ultra is good too? maybe coz the price is low and the quality and speed is normal to high end.. maybe..