an7 last second mod?

[Evil_Spork]

uh, my friend got his yesterday, look what he found, a hand soldered resistor comming off the leg of an IC

[TheDogFather]

Mmm the plot thickens....

TDF.

[Drisler]

P80 debug LED like epox boards..
That's nice to see.

To thoose who have the AN7, does the led work?

[TheWeaseL]

When I had mine, the LED worked just fine from what I could tell...I never saw that hand soldered resistor though...

[twiggy]

Just checked mine and its the same!

[Poki]

Man Abit sure rushed those out! I wonder what the heck the hurry was???

[eclypse]

Yeah mine has that as well.. noticed it but didnt think twice about it.

I still have to return it since i'm like the only dumb ass that connected that damn cut trace and had the blown 3rd DIMM slot.

[beatnic]

and at the back..

[Evil_Spork]

another hand solder.. sigh.

[Evil_Spork]

thats by the ziff socket and mosfets the last one.



this is the LED hand solder:

[XtremepH]

that sux i didn't even notice that on mines. good thing i got a refund from newegg.

[Evil_Spork]

im gunna hang on to mine

later when a new rev is out, ill RMA mine

[Evil_Spork]

the back of mine

[Evil_Spork]

the cut trace

[Karnivore]

Sure glad I hung onto my $$$ on this one

[Karnivore]

Originally posted by beatnic
and at the back..

Beatnic, is that how your board came? thats NASTY!

[EQuito]

You know what? it is hard to imagine Abit making so many mistakes on a well proven design so I'd dare to speculate that uGuru is responsible for all these late fixes, what do you think?

[saaya]

woa WHAT THE HELL is up with abit???

honestly, who would care if the boards would run 240fsb but they oc like crap and are full of fixes :\

not good.... not good at all!

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by saaya
not good.... not good at all!

That's Abit in a nutshell...Epox baby

[ZhaoYun]

Gotta love that last minute high quality effort.

[Evil_Spork]

lol ya, go epox, but wtf is with the 8rda+ being cancled, it was one of the best?!!! especially the rev 2.1's!!!!! those were probably the best NF2 boards.

[saaya]

if you want a high quality board get the a7n8x, hq capacitors and hq mosfets that barely get warm

the worst oc on an a7n8x deluxe 2.0 i heard of was 220dc, the best ~260 im still at 250 but i havent played with it for months. still default nb heatsink and i think my memory was keeping me back.

[eclypse]

Originally posted by saaya
if you want a high quality board get the a7n8x, hq capacitors and hq mosfets that barely get warm

the worst oc on an a7n8x deluxe 2.0 i heard of was 220dc, the best ~260 im still at 250 but i havent played with it for months. still default nb heatsink and i think my memory was keeping me back.

This one right?

Asus Motherboard for AMD Athlon XP/Duron Processors, Model# A7N8X Deluxe Retail
Socket A AMD Athlon XP/Duron (support AMD XP 3200+ "Barton")
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra SPP, nForce2 MCP-T
FSB: 400/333/266MHz
IDE: 2 x ATA133
RAM: Dual Channel DDR 400 3x 184-pin DIMM Sockets (PC3200/PC2700/PC2100 non-ECC DDR)
Slots: 1x AGP (Pro/8X), 5x PCI
Ports: 6x USB2.0
SATA: Silicon Image Sil 3112A Controller w/ 2 ports
NVIDIA SoundStorm Audio Processor Unit with Dolby
MCP integrated 3Com MAC + Broadcom AC101L PHY LAN
Firewire 1394: 2 Ports MCP-T integrated IEEE 1394a + Realtek PHY 8801B

Does this one need to be modded? And are they easy to do compaired to the NF7-S v2.0?

[taco]

wtf is this? any word from an offical from abit? i mean i wouldnt care if the board performed really nice, but it just seems really ghetto in my opinion.

[Evil_Spork]

i tried to get ahold of abit, but they have over a 20 minute wait to get ahold of a person, so i didnt wait.

hmm.