Soltek nforce4 finally shows up

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: Macro2
Greg,

If the Asus had a serial port I might try that. I like Asus. edit I see it comes with one you can stick in a plate in the back. NO firewire. If you need that you're going to take up a PCI slot and end up with 2 like the Soltek.

I've had good luck with MSI boards unlike some other people.

I skip ECS and Biostar.

I really want to like the Soltek. It does have everything I need despite the poor location of the video slot and only 2 regular PCI slots.

Really, all this nforce4 atuff is confusing as hell. Hard to get a grip on it.

I agree that this nforce4 stuff is confusing as hell. In terms of Asus, I had noticed the lack of firewire support on the A8N-E. Also odd, is I am searching Asus's website right now and can find no acknowledgement that the A8N-E even exists. I have found the A8N-SLI and A8N-SLI Deluxe boards at the Asus website. They both have firewire support.

You mention that you've had good luck with MSI boards, unlike other people. Are you saying a LOT of people have had trouble with MSI boards? I've never used one and I thought (at least at one time) they were a popular motherboard brand here at Anandtech.

Would you suggest I go with the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum or one of the Asus nForce4 boards ???

Greg

 

[Fisher999]

Originally posted by: ChicagoPCGuy
...Apparently a 20 pin connector is left with ONE PIN to provide power to the PCI-E bus as opposed to the additional pins a 24 pin connector provides, so it is not just a BTX thing. That pin can actually BURN. Here is the link: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/other/display/atx-psu.html

I wonder what's up with xbitlabs.com ??? The link you provide doesnt' work so I tried just to go to the home page of xbitlabs.com manually and I still got "the page cannot be displayed" error window. Hmm..... maybe their server is down...... will check later... thanks for the information though......

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Chicago:

The xbitlabs site is up and running again, thought you might want to know !