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A7n8x-e motherboard review

A7n8x-e motherboard


A7n8x-e motherboardThe A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard improves on the popular A7N8X Deluxe by adding Gigabit LAN and the exclusive ASUS Wi-Fi slot for easy wireless LAN setup.

Of course, innovative features such as AGPPro/8x, Dolby® digital 6-channel audio, onboard IEEE 1394, Serial ATA, dual-channel DDR 400 and a dual LAN design are still included in this latest board.

I bought this motherboard for a windows XP box. It worked perfect out of the box. Great on board extras: 2 NIC's-one gigabit-one 10/100, 6 channel audio, SATA, Wi-Fi, 6USB, 2 IEEE 1394. Outstanding BIOS, although my neighbor experienced BIOS death twice with this board I have had no problems. I run windows XP on this machine and have heard of problems with the Nforce2 chipset and linux although, knoppix seems to run fine on it. That has mad me a little scared to make this one a linux only machine.

A7n8x-e motherboard

PROCESSOR Socket A (462) for
AMD Athlon XP
AMD Duron
Barton/Thoroughbred Core Ready
CHIPSET NVIDIA nForce2
North Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 SPP Ultra 400
South Bridge: NVIDIA® nForce2 MCP-T
FSB SPEED 400 / 333 / 266 / 200MHz
SYSTEM MEMORY Dual-Channel DDR 400 3 x 184-pin DIMM Sockets Max. 3 GB unbuffered PC3200(DDR400) / PC2700 (DDR333) / PC2100 (DDR266) / PC1600 (DDR200) non-ECC DDR RAM Memory (Twinbank)
ON BOARD I/O 1 x USB 2.0 connector support additional 2 USB 2.0 ports
CPU/Power/Chassis FAN connectors
Game Connector
20 pin ATX power connector
IDE LED connector, power LED connector
2 x 1394 Connector
2 x SATA (Serial ATA) Connector
WOR, WOL, Chassis Intrusion, SM Bus, SIR
Headphone (optional)
Front MIC
CD/AUX/Modem audio in
Front Panel Audio connector (optional)
ON BOARD IDE 2 x UltraDMA 133/100/66/33
SERIAL ATA Silicon Image® Sil 3112A Controller with 2 ports
Support RAID 0/1
ON BOARD AUDIO Realtek® ALC650 6CH w/built in HP amplifier
Integrated APU(Audio Processor Unit)
SoundStorm/ Dolby® Digital (AC-3) Encoder
ON BOARD LAN 2 LAN Ports
-Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit Lan PCI Controller
-MCP-T integrated NVIDIA MAC + Realtek 8201BL PHY
ON BOARD 1394 IEEE 1394 interface provides high speed digital interface for audio / video appliances such as digital television, digital video camcorders, storage peripherals & other PC portable devices.
2 Firewire 1394 Ports
MCP-T Integrated IEEE 1394a + Realtek® PHY 8801B
FEATURES Dual-Channel DDR400 Support
TwinBank memory architecture to achieve Max 6.4GB/s bandwidth
Asus PC Probe
Asus LiveUpdate Utility
Power Loss Restart
CPU Throttle
Vcore and Vio adjustable
ASUS C.O.P. (CPU Overheating Protection)
Post Reporter
Q-Fan Technology
STR (Suspend-to-RAM)
BIOS & MANAGEMENT 4Mb Flash ROM, Award BIOS, TCAV, PnP, DMI2.0, DMI, Green
Industrial Standard PCI 2.2, USB 2.0
Manageability: DMI 2.0, WOR, WOL, Chassis Intrusion, SM Bus
EXPANSION SLOTS 1 x AGP Pro/8X (1.5V only)
5 x PCI Slots
BACK I/O PORTS 1 x Parallel
1 x Serial
1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x PS/2 Mouse
1 x Audio I/O
4 x USB 2.0
1 x S/PDIF out + 1 x Surround L/R audio jack + 1 x CNTR/LFE audio jack
2 X RJ45
ACCESSORIES I/O Shield
SATA Cable
2-port USB 2.0 / Game port bracket
User's Manual
UltraDMA 133 cable
2-Port 1394 Bracket
FDD cable
UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
9-pin COM cable
InterVideo WinDVD Suite
BOARD SIZE ATX
12"x 9.6"
 

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