Abit AN7 nForce2 U400 Socket A MB w/DDR400/LAN/AGP8X/USB2/FW/SATA-RAID

how good is this one? gaming ok? and what speed procesor can i put on there?

good prices from this local place in town-

http://www.nanosys1.com/mb-abit-an7.html

If it is anything like the NF7-S then it is a damn good board. processors are any Athlon XP based processor under the sun, i would suggest the 2500, because of the 11 multi and OC-ability

yea, decent prices too, DDR memory though and want $179.00 ( http://www.nanosys1.com/memory-pc-4000-ddr-memory.html )


I plan on ging 2.0 gig or so, but i noticed some say "barton core"

the barton core is the designation for the Athlon XP's with 512k L2 Cache. the T-bred cores have 256k. and i may be mistaken...but i beleive the durons had 128k or none....but why would anyone want a duron?

EDIT: Just noticed that you were going to go with PC4000 Mem, i wouldn't do that. you will never get up to the 250 FSB that would be required for that and the timmings would suck. i would suggest some Corsair XMS 3200 / 3500 CAS2 or Mushkin L2 PC3500. get 2 x 256 sticks minumum or 2 x 512's and run the timmings at 11-2-2-2.

So i dont have to use DRR mem then?

no you do have to use DDR, i was listing DDR specs DDR266 is PC2100, DDR333 is PC2700, DDR400 is PC3200, DDR433 is PC3500, DDR466 is PC3700, DDR500 is PC4000. so on and so forth.

awesome, thank you for the insight! anyone want to by a via board with a 1.0 gig thunderbird? teeheee, Jim is a upgradin his pimp PC!

Abits in general are good boards, my BP6 with dual Celeron 466 chips has served me well so far.

what about gigabyte boards? any of those decent?

Go to www.nforcershq.com and go to the forums and then abit. Do a search on the an7 and see what you come up with. There is a ongoing debate as to how crummy this board is...

Gigabyte is a nice stable board maker, but rather limited on the bios section.
Go with the Abit NF7-S, it's the AN7 minus the uGuru chip, and has a more developed bios.

sounds good, Im gonan try to sell my mobo and processor i have now, Its 1.0 Gig AMD athlon thunderbird, and a via tech board. whats it worth?

How many Fans can i hook up to this board?

Quote: Originally Posted by JimsZR2 sounds good, Im gonan try to sell my mobo and processor i have now, Its 1.0 Gig AMD athlon thunderbird, and a via tech board. whats it worth?

Not too much realy, it's kind of outdated and the price of new stuff is cheap...

A new AMD XP1700+ is 50$ and a Shuttle AN35N N-Force 2 Ultra motherboard is 62$ at NewEgg. So for 112$ you can have a reasonably fast overclockable set up...hard to compete with that

So I would not expect more than 35-50$, unless you can put it in a complete system and sell it that way.

200-300$ is a fair price for a complete working 1GHZ computer..A new 2ghz E- Machine can be had for as little as 400$ after rebates(They are very cheaply built and slow though)

Of course..If none of your friends want it, try E-Bay

But my best suggestion is to hang on to it for a second backup computer, never know when you will need one..and run Folding@Home on it 24-7 for team Pimp Rig! (#596)

Oh, and most boards have 3 fan connections, thats what my Abit Nf-7S and Shuttle AN35N Ultra have.

BTW, stay away from the AN-7 for now..still has a few bugs in it yet, it may improve in the near future though.
The Abit NF-7S (Revision2) is a proven reliable board, Abit has a track record of having some teething pains upon first release.
The first (1.0 and 1.2) versions of the NF-7S had some issues that were fixed on the currently available board (Version 2) and that is one of the top boards available today