nForce boards

[Damascus]

I have a couple of questions...

1. What micro ATX nForce boards exist? The only 3 that I know of are the Abit NV7M,
Abit NV7133, and Asus A7N266-VM. They appear to be the only ones. (I have a preference
for 220D boards)
2. What's up with the C-media audio and Realtek LAN on the Asus board? Is there any
way to re-enable the functionality in the MCP southbridge?

Cheers.

 

[mudboy]

I have the NV7M, nice board, no real complaints. Pluses are good onboard everything, enough fan headers to make me happy, fits a PAL-8045, and it seems pretty stable so far. Minuses are a non-standard I/O panel (they include one with the mobo), no overclocking options (no big deal for me).

Pete

 

[Damascus]

^ up

 

[Damascus]

$posts++;

 

[RanDum72]

The Asus board doesn't use the C-Media sound but rather the much preferred nvidia APU built in the southbridge.

 

[aug1516]

I am confused about the Asus board myself. I thought it used the good onboard audio but it comes with some C-media daughter card for audio which leads me to believe that it uses some CMedia chipset over the nicer NForce one.

 

[Heretik]

The daughter card uses C-media codec chips only to output the audio. All of the processing, encoding, etc is done with the Nvidia chipset

 

[Damascus]

^^

What's a micro ATX board buyer to do?

 

[Damascus]

^^

MicroATX board owners of the world unite!

 

[Lizardman]

I have no personal experience with these boards but from what i have heard the regular version of the abit board was very solid and a good overclocker so i would assume that teh micro version is a good solid board too.

 

[Damascus]

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[Damascus]

Go. See. Minority. Report. Now.

 

[Damascus]

Daily bump.

 

[bpt8056]

I just built a computer for my wife with ASUS A7N266-VM. Setup was a breeze and stability is top notch! Her computer hasn't crashed yet. The motherboard uses the nVidia MCP for the audio and the sound quality is as good as my SB Live! X-Gamer.

 

[DevilsAdvocate]

I have used the MSI K7N420D....

What an outstanding motherboard !!!

 

[Damascus]

Thanks for the responses, but with the nForce2 release coming up sooner than I thought,
I think I'll just wait for one of those.

 

[orpheusx]

Originally posted by: mudboy
I have the NV7M, nice board, no real complaints. Pluses are good onboard everything, enough fan headers to make me happy, fits a PAL-8045, and it seems pretty stable so far. Minuses are a non-standard I/O panel (they include one with the mobo), no overclocking options (no big deal for me).


Hey mudboy,

I've been looking at the NV7M and even downloaded the pdf of the manual. In one place it claims the chipset has the MCP-D but then under the Audio section is says it's an MCP-1 and, unlike the NV7-133R's manual, says nothing about 6 channel sound.

What's the story there?

Also did your board have the "optional SPDIF output"?

Thanks man!