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Originally posted by KRL
Putting together a new PC with the ASUS A7N8X DLX Mobo which supports the new HD Serial ATA drives and wondering if anyone has one of these yet and if you saw a noticeable speed difference vs the Ultra ATA drives and any compatibility issues at all?
Thnx
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I would be careful of the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo. I put together two systems using this board because the specs on the board looked fantastic. I used AMD Athlon XP 2700+ processors on both systems (333mhz bus speed), and BOTH Systems has major problems. Both systems also had Kingston PC2700 memory.
Silly shit would happen, like when I would launch MS Word.. after about 20 seconds in a document, BAM.... system crash. This wasn't on one, but both machines. And aside from that, just general system crashes as well.
I researched this high and low, and it seemed to come down to a memory problem with Kingston memory and this particular ASUS board. So.... I replaced the Kingston with Crucial PC2700 memory, and SAME damn problems still kept occuring. I even went so far as to blow away the drive with the new memory installed and start from scratch -- no better success.
After agonizing, for the hell of it I decided to drop my memory frequency down in the bios from 333 to 266. Wouldn't you know, the damn system now ran stable -- no more crashes. But you feel kind of like you have a ferrari with a rev limiter on it now
Just my
on that particular board. Some guys I've read have great success with these boards. But in my case two of the same system setups, different memory configs, etc... And nothing but problems when trying to run at max performance.