Hello!
I have a KT333 here that I'd like to whip together for a sibling's ancient 700Mhz Athlon upgrade to an 1800+ (that is also around here, heheh) system, but i'd like it to be a little newer.
I have the Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 in this computer, and it has served its purpose easily. I'm thinking of getting a 9800 Pro in the next few weeks (I hear I may be getting Far Cry or Doom III for my 21st birthday on the 26th), so I was thinking maybe I should get a new motherboard, and then they could take my old one.
I noticed this A7V880 and I like it a lot, but I had an NF7-S Rev 2 for a while, and that was one very nice motherboard so I figured that i'd check out to see if the new southbridges were around. I noticed the Abit NF7-S2 board on Newegg for $69.18 but I can't find much on it.
Does anyone know anything about this new board? I know it has the native SATA that I want, but what about its compatibility, BIOS options, etc. Does anyone HAVE it already? I heard somehting about multiplier problems, and I DO have a multiplier-unlocked XP 2500+ CPU (non mobile, of course) and I would definitely want to bump it up to 3200+ in the future. I know I can easily do this on the A7V880, since reviewers could hit 227FSB with little effort at all, and people told me you could adjust them in the BIOS with it.
Any thoughts on these boards?
P.S.
I'm not buying any current nForce2 Ultra400 boards, because Silicon Image's linux drivers......aren't exactly spectacular.
I have a KT333 here that I'd like to whip together for a sibling's ancient 700Mhz Athlon upgrade to an 1800+ (that is also around here, heheh) system, but i'd like it to be a little newer.
I have the Gigabyte GA-7VT600 1394 in this computer, and it has served its purpose easily. I'm thinking of getting a 9800 Pro in the next few weeks (I hear I may be getting Far Cry or Doom III for my 21st birthday on the 26th), so I was thinking maybe I should get a new motherboard, and then they could take my old one.
I noticed this A7V880 and I like it a lot, but I had an NF7-S Rev 2 for a while, and that was one very nice motherboard so I figured that i'd check out to see if the new southbridges were around. I noticed the Abit NF7-S2 board on Newegg for $69.18 but I can't find much on it.
Does anyone know anything about this new board? I know it has the native SATA that I want, but what about its compatibility, BIOS options, etc. Does anyone HAVE it already? I heard somehting about multiplier problems, and I DO have a multiplier-unlocked XP 2500+ CPU (non mobile, of course) and I would definitely want to bump it up to 3200+ in the future. I know I can easily do this on the A7V880, since reviewers could hit 227FSB with little effort at all, and people told me you could adjust them in the BIOS with it.
Any thoughts on these boards?
P.S.
I'm not buying any current nForce2 Ultra400 boards, because Silicon Image's linux drivers......aren't exactly spectacular.