Gigabyte 7N400 PRO - nForce2 Ultra400 Review

[prometheus]

This is the most impressive board I have worked with in quite a while - and DEFINITELY the best nForce2 board I've tested. Noah had some nice things to say about his top-line 7NNXP and this board is the same except no 2nd LAN or DSS. I agree with Noah on this one!!

I will be posting a full review in the next couple of days, and if Noah would like to add a section on his tests of the 7NNXP it would be welcomed.

This is too much FUN!!

And yes, I have tested the Epox 8RDA+, the Asus A7N8X Dlx, The Soltek with Ultra400 & RAID, and most of the other nForce2 boards.

[Mikki]

Check out Prom's review here (http://www.bleedinedge.com/reviews/gigabyte_7n400pro/gigabyte_7n400pro_pg1.html) :)

[Duvie]

Alright some AMD reviews....

[Tony]

I have been working on the Epox 8RDA+ for a few days...I have a chipset VDD mod on the board also and will post a review very soon.
Here we have another awesome review by Prom and I must say I would love his Barto as its much better tha mine ;) I do however have an 1700B that does 2.5gig air cooled and I will use this and the barton for my review.

Nice to see my bios being posted here also, Prom did say it helped with the overclocking so if you grab the board the bios is pretested and should help you a little.

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by bigtoe
Here we have another awesome review by Prom and I must say I would love his Barto as its much better tha mine ;) I do however have an 1700B that does 2.5gig air cooled and I will use this and the barton for my review.

You should check my hardware profile. :p I finally have all the pieces working together. [b]One of the Bartons I have is an oem-AQXDA0322TPAW and the other one is a retail and I can't find the numbers I wrote down but that proc easily went to XP3200. Sadly, I'm not oc'ing them-have no need to, these procs are fast the way they are.

[Mikki]

Since when do you require a need to overclock????? :?: :look: :scratch: :na:

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by Mikki
Since when do you require a need to overclock????? :?: :look: :scratch: :na:

:lol: With all the hardware I've got-I guess I don't have a need for more power anymore. :p Oh, but this GA-7N400 Pro would do so nice for a fifth computer. [Gollum state starts here]No, pr-you have enough computers. But more is better, buy it! Buy it! Evil ring of computers! I hate you! I don't need you! But I do need you, yes need more. Ring of four not enough. No! Evil, evil![Gollum state ends here] :) Er, yes-I'm going on vacation very soon. Very, very soon. :rolleyes:

[Mikki]

Hehe...alright Pointreyes, you still didn't answer my question....:p

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by Mikki
Hehe...alright Pointreyes, you still didn't answer my question....:p

:confused: I thought the first sentence answered that. :confused:

I'm not a gamer so the performance I need is more for business based applications. With one computer, oc'ing would make more sense since the load on the processor is more demanding but I have the computers working by the effect of sharing the wealth of power. I might even start trying to cluster servers and Oracle Parallel processing. I don't know if increasing the temperature of my house (the other end product ;) ) for the extra Ghz makes sense anymore since four computers already raise the temperature a little bit. Did that explain it better or am I still off-track with understanding the question. :(

[Mikki]

Just messing with ya buddy....you never need to overclock.....;)

[pointreyes]

*whew* Now I understand. I have been rather :wack: lately. :D

[Mikki]

Originally posted by pointreyes
*whew* Now I understand. I have been rather :wack: lately. :D
hehe...must be the heat....:p;)

Time to overclock the air-conditioning!!!!! :eyepop: :look:

[RotorHead]

My Uncle has a really good evaporative water cooling system that might work for you....hehe :)

http://www.btinternet.com/~rotorhead53/bigfan.JPG


:na:
RH

[RotorHead]

prometheus, as usual, another great review there bud.

This setup would be excellent for someone wanting to upgrade on a budget.

:beer:
RH

[pointreyes]

Originally posted by RotorHead
My Uncle has a really good evaporative water cooling system that might work for you....hehe :)

http://www.btinternet.com/~rotorhead53/bigfan.JPG


:na:
RH

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: One thing is for sure, anchoring and noise filters will be verrrry important. :eyepop: :D