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Message: [QUOTE="Paul, post: 10897401"] Isn't the SPDIF connector for SPDIF_out ? The history on Asus and SPDIF_in isn't all that good. The BIOS on P4R800-VM leaves a lot to be desired. Hardly any tweaks and settings in the BIOS, which means if there is trouble, there is no way to fix it. If you read the downloadable manual, you'll also find it has a rather lightweight memory controller in the Northbridge. Something about using single sided memory sticks, in order to run at PC3200. That could be due to mixing integrated video and memory controller in the same chip - virtually all who have tried it, have some kind of limitation. I see reports as well, that it doesn't really like to run stable in dual channel. One guy in the vip.asus.com forum built multiple of them up, and noticed that as a problem. As computers go, the P4P800-VM would be a much better computer, even if the integrated graphics weren't as powerful as something ATI or Nvidia would cook up. And there are also more modern motherboards more suited to standalone multimedia. No need to dig that far down into the rejects barrel :-) When low end processors are less than $100, there is no need to be tied to some old S478 processor. Another reason I don't appreciate the ATI chipsets, is the deceptive labelling schemes they use. I wonder if anyone ever made a table of all the Northbridge/Southbridge combinations they made, because I cannot keep track of them. Sometimes they relabel stuff, just to take another crack at selling it. In the same way that an X1300 becomes an X1550. [URL]http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36198[/URL] Paul [/QUOTE]

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