Abit NF7-S Rev 2 / 400 mhz Barton?

[woodbutcher]

There was an article here about Rev 2 of this board.
Spent 20 minutes doing a search to find the article, no luck.
Anyhow, I read the article once and I thought that I had read that this new version would run the new 400mhz Barton. It did not have the Nforce ultra northbridge but a newer southbridge.
I wanted to pick-up one of these new boards but would like to make sure that it will run the 400's.
Also any comments on this board, good or bad, would be great.

Thanks
WB

[Omardeth]

i read here in a forum that it would but it came from someone that posted it . not an article . i know the asus a7n8x will with revision 2.0

looks like they will http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/...ries=1&model=6 straight from the abit web site .

[woodbutcher]

Omardeth
Thats the article that I still have not found that Rob posted in the news area.
Did you by any chance bookmark that article?

Thanks
WB

[woodbutcher]

Thanks, I was at Abits site at that page and completely missed the "ultra 400" in green (banging head on wall).
Now off to find some reveiws.
BTW, Newegg is still listing this as the nforce 2, I wonder if there shipping rev 2 with the ultra 400 chipset. The review I looked at on Tom's Hardware did not favor the new Nforce chipsets. Kind of wondering about that.

Here's the link if you have not read the article;

http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherb...523/index.html

WB

WB

[Omardeth]

all those boards are soooooooooo close in those benchmarks , i really don't think you can go wrong with anyof them i mean man % wise they are right ontop of one another .

[Nighthawk]

I'm running it right now; it's got the Ultra 400.

I picked it over the Asus board because I'd read something about where Asus integrated a different audio controller into the southbridge so you had to do something funky to install the nVidia drivers.

It ran my Barton 2500+ on a 400Mhz FSB just fine before I installed everything else in the system.