nForce2 good or bad?

[Jeordiewhite]

I've got two a7n8x deluxe motherboards, both are great. One is an ultra 400 and the other is the ultra 333.
However one of the main problems i've seen is memory incompatability, it seems the motherboard is finicky when you don't have compatible ram and it so happens that there is a lot of incompatible ram.

I've got two sets of ram, the kingston hyper X PC3200, running just fine and another set. I forget the brand name, but they would only work stable at 266mhz rather than 400mhz, however since it's 1gb running on dual channel, it makes up for the bandwidth.
However that board has an athlon xp 1800+ in the other machine, the 4200 bandwidth does pretty good.

Have a friend with the epox nforce 2 chipset, works great for her. So far nothing but good coming from them. They are stable and run great with the latest nforce 2 drivers.

[Imperion1]

Epox 8rda3+ Ultra 400 using (2) 512mb Kingston Value Rams. No problems.

[Xtreeme]

"I've got two a7n8x deluxe motherboards, both are great. One is an ultra 400 and the other is the ultra 333."

What board revision is the 333? Mine is a older one. Think the 3rd made. Have to look to see which again LOL. But it supports 200fsb fully with new bios. Im running Barton 2500+ at 11*200 rock solid with Samsung DDR400. No volt boosts on anything. Asus had the faster Chipsets right along but kept quiet. Remember the older Epox's had to change chipsets before 200fsb support. I laughed cause when everyone claimed them king of oclocks my Asus was still running cool at 180fsb when there's would choke up without hardware mods. hehe. I knew it could do 200fsb then came the new bios and I was right.

[The Real Bingo]

I have the same board as Imperion1 and works just fine with 2 sticks of Geil 512mb pc3200.