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Band : Asus
Model : M3N78 VM
Product Features :
- Sold Individually
>> Easy to get started difficult to get perfect
I bought this Asus board to replace a MSI board that had gone bad I installed it hooked it up turned it on and it booted up the very first time It had no problem with my old memory which is slower than 1066 800 I think I had to re do my network settings which is par for the course with a new mobo
Now for the fancy stuff Despite the fact that this board has THREE video hookups VGA HDMI DVI only ONE of them will work at a time because of the limitation of the Nvidia 8200 So for dual monitors you need to add a graphics card Luckily I had one ready
Then I tried the digital audio The manual said coaxial SPDIF but it was actually optical TOSLINK on the board I could not get it to work even with the latest development version of Ubuntu 10 04 From what I could find on the support forums you need to use the built in HDMI and perhaps only that for video in order for digital audio to work and nobody outside the Windows universe has ever done it successfully
Analog audio worked with no fuss when I tried it
>> Corporate Stable Solid Mobo
After months of trying to find a stable mobo for my build a previous Gigabyte mobo was defective I found this one at Frys It is 100 compatible with all my hardware and I have had no real issues with its performance
PROS
Stable
Compatibility with AM2/AM2 processors
Fast boot up POST
4 slots for DDR2 in a DDR3 world
DVI/VGA/HDMI support
Blu Ray support
CONS
Raid issues I did not configure mine for raid
No firewire
Poor placement for power switch connections
A Cert former CC firedog
>> Excellent motherboard with lots of features
Another excellent quality product from Asus Bought it as a replacement for a HP board that went bad dropped it in and it worked beautifully No problems lots of features decent quality video for an integrated chip the option of using it in an SLI setup is a neat feature as well I m very happy with my purchase
