Okay, lastly A few questions about the Neo2.

[floppydisk191]

Okay, this is the last post and my final questions!

The Orange PCI Connector is a "Direct Communications Port" and I am pretty sure that mean a direct link to the CPU like with AGP. But the fact it says "Communication" worries me, can I use my Audigy 2 ZS or Video Capture card in it so they are directly connected to the CPU?

Seccondly, What is with the two Gigabit ports, are they passthrough so I can hook another PC to it. Or can I hook both up to my router for a double even connection or something?

Thirdly and Lastly, Is the NorthBridge fan LED or not, they blades are clear, and I am trying to keep a blue UV theme, so I wanted to know if that Fan or something on it would disrupt my theme?


Thanks for your help, you guys are the best!

 

[Aries64]

The Orange PCI Connector is a "Direct Communications Port" and I am pretty sure that mean a direct link to the CPU like with AGP. But the fact it says "Communication" worries me, can I use my Audigy 2 ZS or Video Capture card in it so they are directly connected to the CPU?

Yes, you CAN use your Audigy2 ZS in the ORANGE PCI slot. I have that PRECISE configuration working flawlessly.

Seccondly, What is with the two Gigabit ports, are they passthrough so I can hook another PC to it. Or can I hook both up to my router for a double even connection or something?

Yes, YOU CAN use one port to connect to a firewall/router and use the other port for connection to another PC for a peer-to-peer network (although if you have a Gigabit router its just as easy to run a cable from each PC on the network to the router so that the PCs' can share your internet connection).

Thirdly and Lastly, Is the NorthBridge fan LED or not, they blades are clear, and I am trying to keep a blue UV theme, so I wanted to know if that Fan or something on it would disrupt my theme?

No. Although the NorthBridge fan blades are clear, it IS NOT LED lit.

Thanks for your help, you guys are the best!

No problem.

 

[floppydisk191]

Okay all my questions are answered THANK YOU!

But really, what is the Direct PCI for, direct connection to CPU like I said?

If so, that is very nice by having sound and video on direct lines to the CPU!


EDIT: The Two GB ports, can I just plug them both into my router and see if they do anything? Will doing that lower my connection, can I install both drivers because the Neo2 has two different controllers?

 

[orangev]

I heard that it was similar to the blue pci on asus boards. Dedicated for MSI bluetooth and wireless items. But it works as a standard pci slot as well. Any pci card should work with out a problem. You can use both GB connections in the same router and bridge the connections if you are running winXP. It will not work very well (slow down) if the router/ switch does not support bridged connections. I ran into some of that trying to bridge 2 cable connections for my network for a higher bandwidth. And yes you can load both drivers for the lan connections. 1 for each.