ABIT NF7-S2G Motherboard

Athlon XP, Socket A, nForce 2 Ultra 400, ATX, 3 GB DDR, 400MHz FSB - MPN: NF7S2G

Description: The NF7-S2G, based on the nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset with MCP-RAID and supports AMD Athlon XP K7 processor with 400 FSB, and dual DDR 400 with deliver up to a 50% increase in bandwidth. With the nForce2 MCP-S support SATA RAID, onboard Gigabit LAN and 6 Channels sound, this b... read more

The NF7-S2G, based on the nForce2 Ultra 400 chipset with MCP-RAID and supports AMD Athlon XP K7 processor with 400 FSB, and dual DDR 400 with deliver up to a 50% increase in bandwidth. With the nForce2 MCP-S support SATA RAID, onboard Gigabit LAN and 6 Channels sound, this board can easily be your foundation for a superb system. minimize

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eckhart from TX

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Not suited for AMD Mobile Chips

Strengths:

Solid, stable board.

Weaknesses:

Cannot change the clock multiplier as you could in earlier Abit Nf7-S.

Posted Sep 20, 2005 - I bought this board thinking it was an update to the NF7-s which I have had for quite a while and which works great and overclocks easily with my XP2500-M mobile chip. I was able to use 11x easily with the older board. Unfortunately, this board is unable to change the multiplier which leaves you stuck with a 6x multiplier on the moble chip (or the default multiplier on a non-mobile chip). You can vary the FSB but not the multiplier. I called Abit to verify that this will not be fixed in a bios update and they confirmed that multiplier changes are not supported at all with this board.It is very solid if you plan to run your chip at stock speeds and is very well priced for the features you get. I should have done more research to determine that this board was not suited for my specific need.

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surfgurujeff

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Abit NF7-S2G Motherboard

Strengths:

Giga-lan (1gb LAN), Fairly Stable, Good Chipset, many good features.

Weaknesses:

Limited Overclocking abilities: you have no control over the multiplier!!! This would unlock you CPU big time.

Posted Jan 29, 2006 - As it is, my Athlon XP 3000+ runs at 2.2ghz with a FSB BIOS setting of 210mhz, it is supposed to run at 166mhz with a multiplier of 13 to get about that same number... I tried going to 2.3ghz, but programs don't work right and Games shut down in the middle of play... weird. I thought this board would have great potential in Overclocking, but that was a disappointment... other than that Abit makes fantastic boards at good prices, so this is a winner for the non-overclocking enthusiast... great board.

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hugocarmicha... from WA

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Good Abit Mobo

Strengths:

Excellent features

Weaknesses:

Pricey

Posted Oct 17, 2006 - I really like this Abit motherboard. Great overclocking features, lots of options, up to 3GB of DDR SDRAM, good nforce2 chipset. And even the good old ATX form factor. Would buy again!

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