Asus A7N8X Deluxe or Epox EP-8RGA+ MB?

Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the
alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up... I
also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the specs
are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the A7N8X -
and only 1 has on-board video and sound. The Soyo's look really nice, but
i've been hearing about quality control issues. I need on-board video and
sound, LAN would be nice - which would you'all recommend? I use my computer
for surfing, e-mail, programming, and CAD work. And i'm using a AMD XP
2500+ CPU (that I want to o'clock to over 2ghz). Thanks.

Trey

E. Rust III wrote:
Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the
alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up... I
also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the specs
are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the A7N8X
- and only 1 has on-board video and sound. The Soyo's look really nice,
but i've been hearing about quality control issues. I need on-board
video and sound, LAN would be nice - which would you'all recommend? I
use my computer for surfing, e-mail, programming, and CAD work. And i'm
using a AMD XP 2500+ CPU (that I want to o'clock to over 2ghz). Thanks.

The Asus nForce2 boards are nice (I have the Deluxe). Looks like the -VM
uses the IGP and yet another different Audio controller.

Abit NF7 range is supposed ot be good too, not sure if they have an IGP
version.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

"Ben Pope" wrote in message
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E. Rust III wrote:
Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the
alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up...
I
also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the
specs
are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the
A7N8X
- and only 1 has on-board video and sound. The Soyo's look really nice,
but i've been hearing about quality control issues. I need on-board
video and sound, LAN would be nice - which would you'all recommend? I
use my computer for surfing, e-mail, programming, and CAD work. And i'm
using a AMD XP 2500+ CPU (that I want to o'clock to over 2ghz). Thanks.

The Asus nForce2 boards are nice (I have the Deluxe). Looks like the -VM
uses the IGP and yet another different Audio controller.

Abit NF7 range is supposed ot be good too, not sure if they have an IGP
version.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...



NF7-M. Very good board. Good overclocker and decent onboard graphics.

E

Im using the A7n8x and its a wonderful board. I blew one up about 3 days
after we got it but i just reset cmos, took it back and said it didnt work
and got a new one that was me being silly with settings tho not the board.
My only reliablility problem is occasionally after restart it freezes at the
SATA controller post screen but u can just turn it off and on again and it
works perfectly (not the freeze only happens after a restart never when
starting up from scratch so i think its me power supply) i dont know the
Epox but i'd recomend the a7n8x dlx its a very nice board


"E. Rust III" wrote in message
...
Okay, I was all sent to buy a Epox MB, carefully researching the
alternatives - and low and behold, this darned Asus keeps popping up... I
also saw the Soyo Dragon series. I went up on the Asus site and the specs
are confusing to say the least! It seams there's 4 versions of the
A7N8X -
and only 1 has on-board video and sound. The Soyo's look really nice, but
i've been hearing about quality control issues. I need on-board video and
sound, LAN would be nice - which would you'all recommend? I use my
computer
for surfing, e-mail, programming, and CAD work. And i'm using a AMD XP
2500+ CPU (that I want to o'clock to over 2ghz). Thanks.

Trey