Let's get to the bottom line first - buy this without hesitation if you want a decent motherboard at a top price. I upgraded not so long ago and bought this board, and although it wasn't my first option, I havn't regretted it since.
It supports DDR 400 up to a maximum of 1.5gb and a CPU ... Read review
Advantages: Super reliable, cheap Disadvantages: boot issues
Let's get to the bottom line first - buy this without hesitation if you want a decent motherboard at a top price. I upgraded not so long ago and bought this board, and although it wasn't my first option, I havn't regretted it since.
It supports DDR 400 up to a maximum of 1.5gb and a CPU speed of up up to 2.4Ghz. With plenty of features, a great price and reliability, it's almost faultless. ALMOST. All because of one niggling fault. ...i've had with this board is its refusal to boot up my mouse and keyboard. Amazingly, the instuction booklet did help. It directed me straight to Asus' website where i downloaded a new bios for it. After flashing it with the new bios I haven't had any more problems.
What it comes down to is, how big of a problem this is to you. Personally, I recommend this card just because of what it can handle and equally as importantly - the price. ... more
Let's get to the bottom line first - buy this without hesitation if you want a decent motherboard at a top price. I upgraded not so long ago and bought this board, and although it wasn't my first option, I havn't regretted it since.
It supports DDR 400 up to a maximum of 1.5gb and a CPU speed of up up to 2.4Ghz. With plenty of features, a great price and reliability, it's almost faultless. ALMOST. All because of one niggling fault.
The main problem, and the only problem, i've had with this board is its refusal to boot up my mouse and keyboard. Amazingly, the instuction booklet did help. It directed me straight to Asus' website where i downloaded a new bios for it. After flashing it with the new bios I haven't had any more problems.
What it comes down to is, how big of a problem this is to you. Personally, I recommend this card just because of what it can handle and equally as importantly - the price. Cheap, packed with features and CHEAP. A great budget range motherboard thats worth buying.
hi i have had the mother board for one year now and i am writing this for the ppl who wants there maximum needs and spend very less for there love of games .I have the same board with AMD XP3000 and 1GB of ram with MSI 128 graphics card works like hell can play any game with my machine never dies in extra graphic enviroment i have seen P4 boards on there knees while playin Splinter cell with thermal vision and my machine never did that ultimate board ... ...of the processor is easy and so much space is given near the bracket not like the other motherboradds having capacitors and insulators araound the bracket of the processor see for yourself man in the pictures very specious no hassel of kicking capacitors and resistors on a side while installing diffrent componenets . Reason to be the mama of all mother boards that means its the GRANDMOTHERBOARD dosent mean its old though :) have it and have fun great ...
saaya88 22.10.2004
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Audio
Audio Output
Sound card, Sound card - PCI
Signal Processor
VIA VT8235
Sound Output Mode
5.1 channel surround
Compliant Standards
AC '97
Audio Codec
Realtek ALC650
Telecom / networking
Networking
Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet - integrated, Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet - integrated, Network adapter - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
Features
BIOS Features
DMI 2.0 support, WfM 2.0 support, Multilingual BIOS, JumperFree, ASUS MyLogo2, ASUS EZ Flash
Manual Settings
CPU frequency, processor core voltage, CPU frequency, CPU frequency, processor core voltage, AGP slot voltage, memory bus frequency
Hardware Monitoring
CPU core temperature, CPU fan tachometer, chassis fan tachometer, CPU overheating protection, power supply fan tachometer, CPU overheating protection
Sleep / Wake Up
Keyboard wake up, RTC (real-time clock) wake up, wake on LAN (WOL), wake on ring (WOR), Wake on LAN (WOL), wake on ring (WOR), Wake on LAN (WOL)
Hardware Features
ASUS POST Reporter, ASUS Q-Fan, Chassis intrusion detection, ASUS POST Reporter, ASUS Q-Fan, ASUS Q-Fan
Manufacturer's product description
The ASUS A7V8X motherboard is loaded with the most advanced technologies to deliver maximum performance for Socket A processors. Based on the advanced VIA KT400 chipset with DDR 400 support, the ASUS A7V8X also features AGP 8X, serial ATA, USB 2.0 as well as optional 6-channel audio, LAN and 1394. Unique ASUS features such as ASUS C.O.P., Q-Fan, MyLogo2 and more are also included to ensure the best user experience and value in a motherboard.
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