on the ebay subject i liek to use the great saying....
"you get what you pay for......most of the time"
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on the ebay subject i liek to use the great saying....
"you get what you pay for......most of the time"
He never said it was an S~ 75 shipped would be a normal price for just a normal NF7 especially off ebay.
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it also must have the option for 2-2-2-6-t1 timings
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he hasn't been doing his homework. i run mine @11, as per numerous postages, just no hassle there.
and that ram, fingers crossed.....................especially dual channel.
i foresee problems already.
but, got to give Tbird credit, he did finally fold and purchase the board, this is a devout KT400 fanboy, it had to hurt to make this decision and then tell us about it.
lets wait and see what he can get.
baldy
:D
Does this mean I get to call him a hypocrite?:D
Nowhere in the description does it refer to the board as an "S" version. That shouldn't affect overclockability though.Quote:
He never said it was an S~ 75 shipped would be a normal price for just a normal NF7 especially off ebay.
"Wonder why it went so cheap????"
he bought em wholesale for even less and has too many, hence his "buy it now" for $65. He might have a few left too. also the kt400s and new a64 mobos have brought the prices of the nf2's down as well.
"i am muttering to myself what may happen if it is a dog, "i told you the NF7 series sucked", as i close this post."
Ok then I will just calmly take it out and either buy another nf7 or put my kt400 back in. Ill sell the slower nf7. anyway since its a revision 2.0, I recon theres a pretty good shot at 200fsb and if I get lucky, 225fsb!
"hopefully, it will give you the ride i and many others have been on for quite some time already."
Will it eat a kt400 at same fsb? This is something I am dieing to know and I shall find out. everyone says the nf2 is faster than the kt400. do they mean at same fsb or only if you get the nf2 at a much higher fsb? I get 14.6k on 190fsb with kt400. Thatll be exciting if I break 15k at 190fsb, then imagine 225fsb. I might try for 16k :eek:
"personally, retail with warranty would have been my choice for about $40 more."
The one he sold me is new so it should have warrenty anyway
"but Ebay? from a much larger UNKNOWN black hole."
his 100% positive feedback is good assurance plus if that mobo overclocks like a dog I can resell it on ebay and get my money back easy and put my kt400 back in. I lose some time but at least I gain experience of having tried the nf2. so whats my odds of 225fsb assuming the ram does not bottleneck. also is it true the nf7-s can increase the northbridge voltage in the bios to 1.7?
"Yes, I also fear what garbage may be spread about the NF7 if he does in fact get a bad one."
I will not bash the nf2 even if I can not hit 200fsb. as long as it eats the kt400 at equal fsb, ill consider the nf2 faster. This will be interesting.
"Oh, and T-Bird, you have Corsair Value, how can you expect 225FSB at teh timings you love?"
look whos talking with his pc2100 kingston at 215fsb.......ill be darned if my ram was a dog and didnt do at least 225fsb :mad:
"he hasn't been doing his homework. i run mine @11, as per numerous postages, just no hassle there."
I will run 11 if I have to, but I want good timings to greatly improve performance. heck my kt400 mobo the worst timings the bios gives you is 3-3-3-7-t2 and this costs me 600 marks over 2-2-2-6-t1 which is the best timings. 3-4-4-11-t2 would cost me like 1200 marks or something :eek: I want no worse than 2-2-2-6-t1 timings
"and that ram, fingers crossed.....................especially dual channel."
I have one stick and it will run single channel, dual does next to nothing but hurt fsb overclock.
"Nowhere in the description does it refer to the board as an "S" version. That shouldn't affect overclockability though."
it has onboard sound, so I think its an nf7-s :D
T-Bird the NF7 has onboard sound also, I think it would be hard to buy a MB now days that comes without onboard sound of some kind, but who knows, I hope it is a NF7-S. Edit to add: if it has the Nvidia Soundstorm sound, then it is a NF7-S.
'I hope it is a NF7-S.'
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nope, i checked Ebay, they are all plain NF7's, rev 2.0.
it should clock the same, though.
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The one he sold me is new so it should have warrenty (sic) anyway
that depends, if the vendor is not an authorized reseller...............
maybe then it would go by manu date, s/n, something like that.
"I want no worse than 2-2-2-6-t1 timings"
you will learn soon enough, grasshopper.
check the bios ID string when you get the unit, the factory revison that is on the board will go a long way towards determining the age of the board in the first place. then a trip to this spot (look for sticky about 10 sticky posts down):
http://forum.abit-usa.com/forumdispl...?s=&forumid=26
for the most recent bios update files. make sure you update with the CORRECT bios, this means don't force the 'S' version onto a non 'S' version, and vise versa.
hope this works out for you.
baldy
:D
flashing the bios is very risky, its best not to mess with it unless you need support for tomorrows hardware, such as bartons or higher speed cpus or a certain feature or something
yer cracked in da head.
the newest NF7 (s) bios' are reported to allow many to clock higher FSB stable.
don't be a stick in the mud, i have flashed my Abit board with the newest bios's six or seven times, either in dos, the old way, or with the Abit updater within windows. the first couple were a result of my screwups (bios savior, SYA, save yer a$$), the rest the natural course of updates when they became available.
all these bios updates were done with the cpu still clocked to the max on the prommie.
updating the bios is a snap, get over it. if the bios update borks, i can almost guarantee the board was giving signs of flakey behavior before the update.
baldy:D
lmao, you don't know what you are talking about n00b.Quote:
Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
flashing the bios is very risky, its best not to mess with it unless you need support for tomorrows hardware, such as bartons or higher speed cpus or a certain feature or something
rofl PWNED!!!! :D :DQuote:
Originally posted by Ignitionator
lmao, you don't know what you are talking about n00b.