----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Kelsoe" <randykel(a)swbell.net>
To: <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: A7N8X-E Deluxe experiences? or other motherboard
recommendations?
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>I've been thinking of getting an AMD Athlon 2600+ 333MHz FSB, and an ASUS
>A7N8X-E Deluxe mother board.
<snip>
I'm using a GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 mb, and it's working very
well. FC1
detected everything on install. I installed the nforce2 drivers from
Nvidia, but did not really need to do that. This motherboard uses a
RealTek lan chip, so the nvidia lan driver is not needed. FC1 detected
my soundchip as an i810_audio, which worked fine. When I installed the
nvidia audio driver, XMMS works fine, but other apps (flashplayer,
bzflag) sound weird like the frequency has been shifted up 2 octaves,
and there is also distortion and clipping.
I just saw a review on Tom's Hardware about this motherboard, and it rated
higher than the ASUS. I may look into it instead.
<snip>
You will not see a speed increase by using DDR400 with a 333MHz FSB
Athlon CPU. It may even be slower than DDR333 (PC2700). Using
'dual-channel' memory will definitely be faster (almost 50% faster in my
case).
Yeah, I've been trying to figure out why the AMD Athlon XP CPU's are 333FSB,
yet the motherboards are 400FSB? I just saw something about the current
Barton CPU's are 333, but that 400's are due out soon? I'll probably have
to buy my stuff in installments, so maybe I could buy the RAM this month,
the motherboard next month, and then by the time I'm ready for the CPU, the
400's will be out? :) I *definitely want to do the dual-channel memory
thing, though.
Thanks for the input! I don't have the money to play spray and pray, so I
appreciate the experience sharing.
Ben