Has anyone seen a review of the Abit Nforce board (NV7M)

[RU482]

I am looking to upgrade my mom's machine sometime in the next few months. Right now the case she has requires a microATX board. I figure at the rate the price on the Abit NV7M is dropping, it will be a very reasonable upgrade with a ~1GHZ duron and hopefully DDR will come down in price (ha ha) by then.

Anyway, I have not come across a single review or user comment about this board. Just curious if anyone has seen anything.

PM me if you have

 

[UncleRichy]

Hi
You want to do exactly what I just did. 1Ghz Duron, 2X128MbPC2100 +NV7M

The biggest problem you might come across is in the positioning of the processor at the top of the board. Not a problem with a normal case, but the HP I tried to do it on was too small, both height wise and depth wise. The CDrom ended up hitting both the processor (by 1 inch) and the memory clips. A regular ATX power supply wouldn't fit either, you need a smaller one... but check the other stuff first.

The board also comes without a Win98 installer - it has XP, NT & 2000???
You can get the drivers from nvidia.com and the very important installation notes they have on the site... if you have Win98 that is.
I also had to turn off the Dolby function and the system I built didn't like the Detonantor drivers... and they are a pain to remove!

It runs everything fine... must be scarry for some having nothing plugged into the PCI slots

See also www.abitboards.com

 

[geek167]

It is an OEM board. Abit did not send out any samples for review. That is why there are no reviews.

 

[Loba]

at last

Abit NV7M NVIDIA® Nforce Motherboard