Abit NF-7 versions

[Toonage]

Currently I'm running an almost new NF7-S v2.0 board. It seems satisfactory so far as I've gotten my 2600-M to 2.5 ghz with room to move. I wanted to ask of the experienced members here about the earlier version boards. Have you found the non-S ones to take OC's/modded bios's better, or not. Mine has the blue ram slots. I've been reading the earlier black slotted boards with the D10 bios's seem to rock. I just wanted some feedback on this plz. TIA.

NF7-S v2.0 stock bios/2600-M 218x11.5
2x512 pc3200 lvl-2 Mushkin bh-5@7-3-3-2
Exos water on cpu/northbridge
Asus 5900U w/5950bios/36gb Raptor

 

[kenpomasta]

NF7-s rev 2 was the 1st rev that used the Nfroce 2 400 ultra chipset (beleive thats the name of it) that is certified to run on the 200 fsb. its the best out of the revs of the nf7-s. Not sure on teh regular nf7.. but I woudl spend the extra couple bucks to get the rev 2 of the nf7-s over the nf7. I know there were good boards out of the earlier revs.. but Ive seen way too many bad boards of the earlier revs of it. So i would tink the rev 2 woudl be the best possible O/Cer out of the revs.. since its certified to run on the 200 bus and it has the newer nf2 chipset in it.

 

[Toonage]

Thanks for your reply, and that makes sense about the chipset as far as the NF7-S boards are concerned (mines a 400-ultra). Although I'm using the onboard sata, I'm simply trying to eliminate variables that might hamper an otherwise clean OC.