A7N8X-VM/400, 400MHz FSB with on-board video enabled?

[Elvis Chen]

hi,

I'm interesting in getting an A7N8X-VM/400 with the new Antex Arie case to
a multimedia center. This board seems to have everything I need: video,
decent autio, ethernet, etc, etc. As I don't really play game, the
onboard video will be sufficient. It will be used mainly as a multimedia
center and for DVD-encoding.

Can anyone confirm that this board will work with 400MHz FSB *with* the
onboard video enabled? I thought that NForce chipset with GPU only
support 333MHz FSB when the video is enabled. If so, this would be ideal
as I can simply get a mobile-barton and have some overclocking fun.

from http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-VM/400&langs=09, it was
indicated that:

Front Side Bus 400/333/266 MHz
Memory -Dual Channel Memory Architecture
-Supports up to 2GB of 2700/PC2100 DDR memory
-2 DIMM sockets

not that 400MHz FSB is supported, but not PC3200. Perhaps this means it
has to run DDR400 async?

any confirmation is very much appreciated,

ECC

 

[fred]

hi,

I'm interesting in getting an A7N8X-VM/400 with the new Antex Arie case to
a multimedia center. This board seems to have everything I need: video,
decent autio, ethernet, etc, etc. As I don't really play game, the
onboard video will be sufficient. It will be used mainly as a multimedia
center and for DVD-encoding.

Can anyone confirm that this board will work with 400MHz FSB *with* the
onboard video enabled? I thought that NForce chipset with GPU only
support 333MHz FSB when the video is enabled. If so, this would be ideal
as I can simply get a mobile-barton and have some overclocking fun.

from http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=A7N8X-VM/400&langs=09, it was
indicated that:

Front Side Bus 400/333/266 MHz
Memory -Dual Channel Memory Architecture
-Supports up to 2GB of 2700/PC2100 DDR memory
-2 DIMM sockets

not that 400MHz FSB is supported, but not PC3200. Perhaps this means it
has to run DDR400 async?

any confirmation is very much appreciated,

Don't know about the 400MHz fsb, but here's a summary of my experience
with this board.

No overclocking on this board - no access to any settings for mem or video
timings in the bios. I paid extra for asus as I thought it would be an easy
plugin and forget fix for my own multimedia setup but have been seriously
disappointed. In my case it looks like DDR400 won't work even when run at
the supported 333MHz rate - thought the faster mem would make for more
timing margin, but w/o the settings to tweak I can't get it stable on any
media player with with DirectX enabled.

I would not recommend this board.

Google groups shows many with memory problems.

 

[Paul]

Don't know about the 400MHz fsb, but here's a summary of my experience
with this board.

No overclocking on this board - no access to any settings for mem or video
timings in the bios. I paid extra for asus as I thought it would be an easy
plugin and forget fix for my own multimedia setup but have been seriously
disappointed. In my case it looks like DDR400 won't work even when run at
the supported 333MHz rate - thought the faster mem would make for more
timing margin, but w/o the settings to tweak I can't get it stable on any
media player with with DirectX enabled.

I would not recommend this board.

Google groups shows many with memory problems.

A previous poster referred to it as "a nightmare". Apparently this
board needs more BIOS work.

YMMV,
Paul

 

[Y]

Can anyone confirm that this board will work with 400MHz FSB *with* the
onboard video enabled? I thought that NForce chipset with GPU only
support 333MHz FSB when the video is enabled. If so, this would be ideal
as I can simply get a mobile-barton and have some overclocking fun.

It says so on the ASUS product page. I haven't bothered trying. It's
possible the video section can't deal with faster memory.