Computers, building, teaching IT.has been prominent in my life. Photography and Radio communications...
Computers, building, teaching IT.has been prominent in my life. Photography and Radio communications too. I am a radio amateur of 30 years standing, having a radio station. I also write reviews for DooYoo. Love animals and children.DIY & music.
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Hi, The model here, the ASUS M2N-E has proved itself over the last year. I built several systems using this motherboard and so far it has been well up to ASUS' usual standard and for me it is the natural successor to my previous one (A8N-E). My comments are that on getting my first motherboard box with its numerous bits and pieces, was that you simply had your moneys worth. Ample leads and more. A sinch to assemble and it worked immediately I switched on, and like giving birth (I imagine), it was a relief when it did fire up and the labour was over LOL!
There is a great deal of satisfaction from building a PC yourself. The moment you press that button the first time holding your breath or in some peoples cases - looking the other way!! Then the ghasp when the boot-up occurs and everything is "swingin". Yes I have been there more times than I can count! This motherboard is very reiliable and is also very fast. slightly better than my previous builds but it uses a dual core architecture (AM2).
The CPU in mine is an AMD Athlon 64 and is a 4.8Gb. I am fitted up with all 4 RAM slots containing 1 GB in each. Now I do believe that I would get the same performance using just 3GB as it would seem that just 2GB is normally adaquet (1GB in each channel) However 4GB covers you very well and since there are 4 sockets which are for DIMM ECC/non ECC and are 240 pin type which at the moment are so cheap it is unbelievable, it allows some more extravegance on spending. The sysyem will in fact take up to 8GB (4 x 2) Max! Not bad eh. This is a moderately priced motherboard and one that is well worth consideration when build-it time comes again.
This M2N-E can be overclocked very successfully, I run mine at +5% and use A1 as well as NOS from time to time. Never a falter. On this system I am using the non-popular Vista. YES! it is slower than XP but there are so many graphiics and processes in that O/S to slow it down. Mmmm I wonder how many have noticed that Vista is slow compared with the well tested and tried up to dateWindows XP home or Pro versions? I tested, as many did, the new O/S Vista for almost 2 years before it was allowed on the shelves. Microsoft were not slow on getting it tested and wanting suggestions and test reports that they forgot in the earlier days that there was none or very little software available that was compatible. One long headache I can tell you, but eventually all came reasonable ok and the software makers had to go with the trend and make more available for the new O/S. This is where the newer ASUS M2N-E came in. I needed a PC that had the Umph! to deal with all the >DWindows XP.
This motherboard, the M2N-E and all its M2 sisters seemed to be the choice when needing more, more, more all the time. Vista is GREEDY and I needed to stoke up the performance for it. I chose this motherboard. ASUS M2N-E, simply because it copes so well with Vista (vista is already doomed apparently. There is a Windows O/S 7 being worked on for a quick public release in the quite near future. They don't seem to have much faith in Vista do they? Mmmm!).
Anyone thinking about buying this motherboard would be advised to read all the great specifications and then go and buy. You would not be sorry! This is another great product from ASUS.
Regards from Hi-Spec-Tek.
Summary: SUPER CHOICE IF YOU NEED QUALITY, RELIABILITY AND PERFORMANCE AND A BARGAIN.
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