Newegg Refurb: Asus A7N8X-VM for $41

JoeFoster

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Nov 19, 2000
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Looks good for a HTPC. There is an addon card for this board for tv-out but it cost around $19.99 shipped:Addon card. Any opinions on this board?

"Specifications:
CPU: Socket A for AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred/ Barton Core Support
FSB: 333/266/200 MHz (up to Barton XP3000+)
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce2 IGP + MCP
RAM: 2x Dual Channel 184-pin DIMM Sockets DDR400/333/266 non-ECC (DDR400 Support w/ external VGA card only)
IDE: 2x ATA133/100
Slots: 1x AGP 8X (1.5V), 3x PCI
Ports: 2xPS/2, 1xLPT, 6xUSB2.0, VGA, & Audio
Onboard LAN: Integrated 10/100 Mbps LAN controller + Realtek PHY
Onboard Video: Integrated GeForce4 MX GPU + Integrated TV encoder
Onboard Audio: Realtek ALC650
Form Factor: MicroATX
NVidia nVIEW Dual Display Architecture allows you to use two displays at once (VGA+TV or DVI+TV only)"

No firewire




A7N8X-VM
 

stingrayia

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Board seems a little skitzo. I'd opt for the A7N8X Deluxe for $69 they seemed to have addressed all the Bios issues by the Deluxe revision.