What's the difference. I have always preferred mainboards that have onboard speaker (buzzer) because it is one less thing to hook up. It isn't like anyone is using the PC speaker for a musical instrument like we were 15 years ago. Most people just listen for the sweet one beep when we boot the computer and that is the last we want to hear anything from that tinny speaker.but I hope it does have a pc speaker header
why the need..? WMP7 and better uses your IDE ribbon for sound..Originally posted by: corinthos
Just an update since I got a PM about this...
The GC68 HSF does fit on this motherboard just fine! Anything bigger and you might run into trouble since the capacitors are
close to the socket.
Also, there is no cdin2 header on this motherboard (at least on my revision 1.1 batch 0).. so it takes the standard black 4pin audio
cable connectors, not a "mini" one with a white connector... So it looks like I'll have to get a new cable or find a spare black
connector and replace the white connector on my cable...
Originally posted by: corinthos
I didn't know that... but I did try to play a DVD the other day on my DVD-ROM drive, and without the audio cable connected to the motherboard header I got no sound... hmm... but it was using PowerDVD, not WMP... it only works with WMP7?
Originally posted by: altonb1
I'd buy this if it had PC133 support. I have a 512MB and 256MB chip in my current system, and another 256MB stick floating around my computer desk. I just can't see tossing it to the side and buying DDR when the existing RAM works so well. I'll upgrade to a board that supports both, and then replace the RAM later.
Originally posted by: Cleaner
In response to someone stating above that Tom's Hardware said the K7S5A was a great board. They later changed that opinion to not so great. It would seem that they sent a very special reference board to Tom's for testing/evaluation. Whilst the majority of the other k7s5a's were not of the same quality. Thus there were some major problems. It would appear that at least half of the k7s5a's that came off the production line had seriously picky power/memory needs. I know this for a fact as I built roughly 10 systems using these, per Tom's recommendations, and had 4 of them with bad motherboards. Wouldn't boot, video errors when they would, would power up but not display anything and no post beeps. Thus after learning this Tom's hardware switched their opinion on the k7s5a. Now they say its touch and go with ECS as some of their products are good and some are bad. I personally will never buy another ECS product. Their tech support was anything but helpful when the company I went thru refused to rma the board for me (www.cpusolutions). They told me that I had obviously put the system together wrong thus the problems...yeah right. So its Asus only for me. You can't go wrong with an asus. i've built 50+ machines and never had an Asus board go bad. In fact my brother is still using my amd k6-550 on an asus p5ab, almost 6 years old or more. As always YMMV but I'll never touch them again.