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amheck

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Well, I have to admit, I haven't followed this thread too closely, but I've seen some stuff about Nvidia and Abit splitting (although I really don't know what that means), and now this thread looses its sticky. I had pretty much planned to buy this board for my new HTPC to use with a Barton 2500+ (based on your guy's recommendations). Funds have slowed a little bit, so I probably won't be able to buying for another month or two. So what's the group's recommendations now for a NForce board? If you guys were buying a new system in the next few months, would you still hold out for this board? Or are there others to consider? Anything worthwhile waiting for?

Thanks!
Aaron
 
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Originally posted by: amheck
Well, I have to admit, I haven't followed this thread too closely, but I've seen some stuff about Nvidia and Abit splitting (although I really don't know what that means), and now this thread looses its sticky. I had pretty much planned to buy this board for my new HTPC to use with a Barton 2500+ (based on your guy's recommendations). Funds have slowed a little bit, so I probably won't be able to buying for another month or two. So what's the group's recommendations now for a NForce board? If you guys were buying a new system in the next few months, would you still hold out for this board? Or are there others to consider? Anything worthwhile waiting for?

Thanks!
Aaron
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If I was making another 32-Bit AMD system, I wouldnt hesitate to buy another NF7-S Rev 2.0. I personally wouldnt put my faith in the AN7 when I have a proven performer in my hands.

 
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Originally posted by: Elcs
If I was making another 32-Bit AMD system, I wouldnt hesitate to buy another NF7-S Rev 2.0. I personally wouldnt put my faith in the AN7 when I have a proven performer in my hands.
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Ditto.
 
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If I was making another 32-Bit AMD system
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I've just begun to hear about the 64 bit systems. I don't need a whole lot of horsepower for the HTPC. Is the 64 bit something I should look at, do you guys think? Or save the $$ and stick with what we know works good.

Thanks!
Aaron
 
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For a HTPC, an AXP/NF2 system is plenty powerful still. I'm using one as my main computer for probably another year at least. Pertinent specs in sig...
 
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Front Audio question. My friend is building a system with this computer and he / I am having trought seeing how the front audio hooks up. There is a jumper connection line (I know this isn't the right term :p) with 2 yellow jumpers attached along the side of the PCI slots where it appears the audio is enabled. I removed those 2 jumpers and tried to attach the front audio (mic and speaker out) to those according to my best guess. That disabled the main audio to the motherboard with the I/O outputs. Basically my best guess is that the front audio should not be hooked up to those ports. I tried to find another place to plug in the front audio and the best place I could find according to the manual is another group of ports between the AGP slot and PCI slot one. There is an IC and another port connect in the manual. I get to the motherboard and those components were left off my board!!! Can anyone help me out with how they got their front audio to work? Thanks!
 
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Originally posted by: FordLorider
Front Audio question. My friend is building a system with this computer and he / I am having trought seeing how the front audio hooks up. There is a jumper connection line (I know this isn't the right term :p) with 2 yellow jumpers attached along the side of the PCI slots where it appears the audio is enabled. I removed those 2 jumpers and tried to attach the front audio (mic and speaker out) to those according to my best guess. That disabled the main audio to the motherboard with the I/O outputs. Basically my best guess is that the front audio should not be hooked up to those ports. I tried to find another place to plug in the front audio and the best place I could find according to the manual is another group of ports between the AGP slot and PCI slot one. There is an IC and another port connect in the manual. I get to the motherboard and those components were left off my board!!! Can anyone help me out with how they got their front audio to work? Thanks!
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I wired a relay off the back plug for my headphones so that when I plug in my headphones it disables the speakers.

 
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Lifer
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New beta drivers at Abit's FTP server.

LINKAGE

That's a thread at nforcershq forums about this.

from the .inf file:
DriverVer=12/17/2003,6.14.0408.0
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I'll try the audio driver out later tonight. I'm hoping a mirror gets set up for this file, the FTP is slow as molasses in January.
 
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Ok, I've updated the audio drivers and utility to version 4.08 and so far so good. Both the drivers and the control panel installed properly right over top of the 3.75s I was using prior to this. MP3 playback is great. Gaming tests coming up next.
 
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Installed the betas just now and I booted up fine. I'll test the stability out on my setup. Too bad they STILL don't have that new audio control panel done :(.
 
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I played UT2003 with EAX on and it sounded really good. No glitches and it didn't sound like the game was happening in a tin can. KOTOR also played well, it's an EAX game. So far I'd say these drivers are a good set!
 
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My mailman is horrible. He gets here at around 4pm and by that time I'm in work so I won't be able to get this computer together. ARRGGH
 
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screw3d

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I just got my NF7-S v2 to replace my 8RDA+ with leaky caps :)

Now should I just use SATA on my PATA drive? I heard that it's supposed to lower CPU utilization.. but by how much?

edit: nvm.
 
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Originally posted by: screw3d
I just got my NF7-S v2 to replace my 8RDA+ with leaky caps :)

Now should I just use SATA on my PATA drive? I heard that it's supposed to lower CPU utilization.. but by how much?
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It made no difference (performance) to my system. I reverted back to the standard IDE controller to simplify cabling. I'll bother with SATA when I finally decide to get off the money to buy one.
 
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My Nforce Control Panel keeps on crashing when I try to access it. SndStorm.exe.... anyone got any suggestions to sort it out rather than reformat? My PC probably needs a fresh install to maintain stability next semester but I dont have the time.
 
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Lifer
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Do you have audio drivers and audio drivers installed that aren't the same version number by any chance? I've seen that scenario cause that problem before.
 
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Elcs

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Originally posted by: Megatomic
Do you have audio drivers and audio drivers installed that aren't the same version number by any chance? I've seen that scenario cause that problem before.
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Sorry but that just doesnt make sense to me ... audio drivers and audio drivers that arent the same version? :confused:

I dont know exactly when the problem started either.... last driver modifications I did was install the 3.13's from Nvidia.
 
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