abit nf7-s vs. asus a7n8x-x which do you prefer and why??????

[sao95]

came up in another thread, so what's the general consenus here?

[newnovice]

ASUS rocks baby, in all feats

[Emc2]

well, i haven't bought an abit in quite a long time, but the Asus board is DEFINITELY worth the money. Stable, overclockable, noticably faster than the VIA chipsets, and kickin sound capabilities. (install the Asus soundstorm software).

[Starfury_2260]

dont get the -x get the deluxe if you're going asus
everthing i've seen though shows the nf7-s as being the better overclocker

[Nighthawk]

I bought the NF7-S because I thought I'd read somewhere that Asus used a non-standard audio chip so you had to install special drivers instead of the base nVidia chipset drivers.

I haven't had any problems at all with this board, so I'm happy.

You don't need any special drivers for the audio chip as far as I can tell, having just set up a -Deluxe.

No experience with the Abit, but I've never been disappointed by an Abit in the past.

Which one has the features you like for a price you can pay? That's how I decide.

[daniel brooks]

i would buy the abit nf7-s v 2.0 i bought it and it is really nice not a problem yet and have had it for a month and something

[Vaitte]

i bought the board since March.

although its only version 1.0 however it runs VERY well.

i dont know about the ASUS though but my experience in NF7-S is extremely positive.

hope this helps, good luck.

[SiliconJon]

Too many mobos, too little money...

I just went and bought the A7V8X after shopping for hours for which nforce2 board I was going to buy. I wanted the Soundstorm audio, but wound up trading that in for a much cheaper board with other goodies. And I feel the KT400 is right next to the nForce2 boards in performance, though I have never compared any encoding projects between the two. A lot of the benchmarks I have seen put them extremely close...and this board was only $80. Smeggin' eh! I didn't want to buy two dimms anyway, cuz I was going to get two 512MB, but now I can just get one and buy another later when I feel like spending the dough.

[stroyal]

I always bought Asus Boards and think they are exelent.
This time I decided to try Abit and got a NF7-S 2.0.
So far I love this Abit board