Okay, going to buy the a7n8x - anything I need to know ?

rabid · Nov 3, 2003

After casually researching this board I plan to pick it up in the next
week or two. I will use my old 1.3 athlon and some ram from my tyan
dual system. It will be my standby comp and then next year I can
get a 3200 barton, 3200 or 2700 ram, a sata 2 drive and a new video
card to receive a massive upgrade - this is what attracted me to the
board, i can get in for so cheap with all the built in stuff and
really boost it in another year for little money...

..however, the sound seems to be an issue. That's all I read about is
how the sound storm cracks and pops. I have an audigy 2 in my main
comp now and its pretty good, if worse comes to worse I can throw my
old regular audigy in the a7n8x I suppose

I guess I just want final assurances that the consensus is that
everything rocks on this board except that some, a minority, have
problems with the sound and if so, that can be easily rectified with a
sound card install ??? I'm really tired this time of year and just
don't want to deal with any more bullshit

many thanks
ps. I'm electronically challenged and seem to have the worst luck

dgk · Nov 3, 2003

....

.however, the sound seems to be an issue. That's all I read about is
how the sound storm cracks and pops. I have an audigy 2 in my main
comp now and its pretty good, if worse comes to worse I can throw my
old regular audigy in the a7n8x I suppose

....

I'll watch this thread since I think I'm going to buy one also. I
realize that mostly people post to these groups because they're having
problems so maybe some problems get overstated. Hey, if I went by the
newsgroups I couldn't buy any board!

But I read about the noise problem in a review also so it isn't just a
few folks. I think I'll buy it from a vendor I know fairly well and
see what they say.

Ed · Nov 3, 2003

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I'll watch this thread since I think I'm going to buy one also. I
realize that mostly people post to these groups because they're having
problems so maybe some problems get overstated. Hey, if I went by the
newsgroups I couldn't buy any board!

But I read about the noise problem in a review also so it isn't just a
few folks. I think I'll buy it from a vendor I know fairly well and
see what they say.

If the Deluxe is anywhere near as good & stable as my non-dlx v2.00 you
wont be sorry. I had no use for onboard SATA or Firewire when I bought
my board in mid May so I went with the non-dlx and put in an Audigy 2
recently. I like having parts I can swap from system to system too, all
that onboard stuff on the Dlx sort of turns me off.

Ed

dgk · Nov 4, 2003

If the Deluxe is anywhere near as good & stable as my non-dlx v2.00 you
wont be sorry. I had no use for onboard SATA or Firewire when I bought
my board in mid May so I went with the non-dlx and put in an Audigy 2
recently. I like having parts I can swap from system to system too, all
that onboard stuff on the Dlx sort of turns me off.

Ed

But I want good sound and if the incorporated sound is good then I
like it. Also, I want SATA. I'm considering an new system because I
deal with large wav files and tons of i/o. The faster the better.

peter · Nov 4, 2003

have had my A7N8X deluxe ver 2 for about 6 weeks now.
I love it....no sound problems...easy to overclock
2 network connections come in handy to hook one to my 2nd system and the
other to a cable modem.
running one 160gb SATA drive without problems and fast.
great board.
peter

Kyle Brant · Nov 4, 2003

Haven't played with my 2.0 dlx board that much, but so far nary a
glitch in the sound and the quality is every bit as good as my SBLive
5.1 that I retired upon installing my A7N8X. Don't play that many
games, but UT, UT2k3 and BF1942 all work nicely w/o sound
difficulties.

--
Best regards,
Kyle
tired of spam, no email address
|
| >On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 22:17:56 GMT, dgk
| >
| >>On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:39:46 -0500, rabid
<[email protected]>
| >>wrote:
| >>...
| >>>.however, the sound seems to be an issue. That's all I read about
is
| >>>how the sound storm cracks and pops. I have an audigy 2 in my
main
| >>>comp now and its pretty good, if worse comes to worse I can throw
my
| >>>old regular audigy in the a7n8x I suppose
| >>>
| >>...
| >>
| >>I'll watch this thread since I think I'm going to buy one also. I
| >>realize that mostly people post to these groups because they're
having
| >>problems so maybe some problems get overstated. Hey, if I went by
the
| >>newsgroups I couldn't buy any board!
| >>
| >>But I read about the noise problem in a review also so it isn't
just a
| >>few folks. I think I'll buy it from a vendor I know fairly well
and
| >>see what they say.
| >
| >
| >If the Deluxe is anywhere near as good & stable as my non-dlx v2.00
you
| >wont be sorry. I had no use for onboard SATA or Firewire when I
bought
| >my board in mid May so I went with the non-dlx and put in an Audigy
2
| >recently. I like having parts I can swap from system to system too,
all
| >that onboard stuff on the Dlx sort of turns me off.
| >
| >Ed
|
| But I want good sound and if the incorporated sound is good then I
| like it. Also, I want SATA. I'm considering an new system because I
| deal with large wav files and tons of i/o. The faster the better.

anteserum · Nov 4, 2003

I'm much the same as you Kyle. I use my 2.0 Dlx board for some lightweight
graphics and a few games.
I'm into car racing games and like the sound of myself roaring around the
track, lol.
No sound probs for me (and I crank it up when no-one is home).

Kyle Brant · Nov 4, 2003

paleale · Nov 4, 2003

After casually researching this board I plan to pick it up in the next

One surprise for me was it only took AGP 8X cards.
Using a VGA PCI card at the moment, my 8X just arrived yesterday.

alan

Ed · Nov 5, 2003

One surprise for me was it only took AGP 8X cards.
Using a VGA PCI card at the moment, my 8X just arrived yesterday.

alan

You must of tried an 3.3V AGP card then ?

/Quote from the A7N8X User Manual/
Red AGP warning LED.
Serving as a smart burn-out protection this red LED lights up if you
plug in any 3.3V AGP card into the AGP slot. When this LED is lit, there
is no way you can turn on the system power.
/End quote/

Cheers,
Ed

Malcom B · Nov 5, 2003

I've had the A7N8X for some time now and I am happy except there are some
problems with the USB ports on this board. When I try and use an external HD
(USB) my drive disappears when I try to copy multiple files and will
reappear only if I disconnect the drive and connect again. I know this is a
problem with this board. I have no problems with the same drive on other PCs
using the same OS.

Ed · Nov 5, 2003

I've had the A7N8X for some time now and I am happy except there are some
problems with the USB ports on this board. When I try and use an external HD
(USB) my drive disappears when I try to copy multiple files and will
reappear only if I disconnect the drive and connect again. I know this is a
problem with this board. I have no problems with the same drive on other PCs
using the same OS.

I've had the non-dlx v2.00 for almost 6 months now, only problem I had
was getting USB-2 speeds from my Antec front USB ports, ANTEC sent me a
new part that enables USB-2 transfer speeds to fix it.

I've plugged in a lot of different USB devices without any problems, 3
Achos 20GB MP3 players, a Dazzel 150 USB2 capture box, 3 Pen drives,
Speedzter 5 USB2/Firewire external CD/DVD box for a 2.4x DVD burner, 7-1
Flash card reader, HP printer with built in flash card reader and a
mouse without a single glitch.... so far anyway! ;p

Cheers,
Ed

rhartman · Nov 8, 2003

BigR:

A7N8x ...? ...... HAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ... Write a will, so
if ya cut-your-wrists the board goes ta yer eX.

ray hartman
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Okay, going to buy the a7n8x - anything I need to know ?

rabid

dgk

Ed

dgk

peter

Kyle Brant

anteserum

Kyle Brant

paleale

Ed

Malcom B

Ed

rhartman