nForce 2 Ultra 400

[11427]

Ok, so exactly what is this going to do for me?
I had an A7N8X Deluxe rev 1.04 it was ok, but about 40% of the time it would fail memory test when booting up. Ran a bunch of tests on the ram (used memtest 86) on three machines and took it to a local shop to have them run some tests, always checked out fine except on my rev 1.04 board. Took it back today and they replaced it with a rev 2.0, no more "system failed memory test" nice!
Now I'm curious,.... what exactly is different from the nForce2 chipset and the nForce2 SSP (Ultra 400) chipset, other than the official support of 400 fsb?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[paperfist]

http://nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030512_7026

I believe "official" support for 400MHz FSB is really the only major difference between the 2 boards. If you already have a 2.0 revision board there really isn't any benefit of upgrading to an Ultra.

 

[Megatomic]

In addition to what paperfist said, the only advantage of moving from a Rev. 2.0 board with the unofficial Ultra chipset to an official Ultra board would be a newer PCB design. The motherboard manufacturer may have made some slight corrections to their design that fix small problems with the earlier revisions. For this reason I am looking to get the new Epox 8RDA+ Rev. 2.0.