I sold my soul - finally giving Abit another chance...

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited December 2003 in Hardware
The Newegg $89 NF7-S special was just too good to pass up - I ordered one of the suckers to see if Abit can make up for the mobo that died on me a few years ago. I'm trying to unload the DFI board to replace it with the lower-priced Abit (trimming back my PCs to account for losing job)...

/me crosses fingers and hopes the Abit is as good as everyone keeps saying it is...

Comments

  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    In the last 8 years, I've owned not quite 20 mobo's. Most of those (ya, I had a few duds) have been high quality, enthusiast level boards. My NF7-S would have to rank #1 in that bunch.

    Rob, you are going to love it.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Proud owner of it here as well. On my 3:rd NF7-s. I have killed 2 myself.
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited November 2003
    I love my NF7S, and I know you will to. Just don't let Geeky get near it, hehe
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Well, don't tell him THAT Mack!!@! =P At least tell him how they died LOL
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I own three of the suckers.

    I caved and bought the third one today while it was on sale.
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I was hunged after 3 days of drinking and thought i was the best solder in the world. Don't try to do vmods if you are hunged. Especially not on this board. 2 small regulators became 1 meltdown of hell.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited November 2003
    Love my NF7-S 2.0 too. Great board.:D
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    My next board WILL Be AN NF7-S.

    ---
    Side note for business folk as well as reason for not hopping to an NF7-S NOW.
    ---
    Can't afford it right now, need a better accounting package than Simply Accounting Pro and the local Accountant says PEachtree Complete or Quickbooks Premier. So, ordered Peachtree Complete as can get a $60.00 Atomic Park rebate AND a Peachtree $30.00 competitive software switch rebate through December 31, 2003.

    AtomicPark has it for $244.00 before rebate which is less than the QB PRemier minus a $160.00 US rebate because one of my Dad's lagacies to me was an old QB for Widnows 95 for which service packs are no longer available and it does not like 98 SE at all and 98 SE likes it gawdawfully without a service pack Intuit has ZERO of around on floppy to ship. QB is easier for someone not educated in accounting, Peachtree has more flexibilty builtin.

    John.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited November 2003
    I've always used Asus motherboards, but this ABIT IC7-MAX3 provides the fastest i875P platform for P4C's today. You simply cannot get better performance out of the i875P platform than what this ABIT beauty delivers.

    6 SATA, OTES, Active N/B cooling, IDE RAID, 3.2V VDIMM. You can't go wrong.

    ABIT does kick ass :D
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I love my Abit nf7-s 2.0 and I have built 4 systems for people with the same board. Only other brand I will touch besides abit is asus
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown Indiana
    edited November 2003
    Ah man, listening to keto about the nf7-s being the best of 22 boards is making me depressed. This is my first motherboard, so I'm guessing I've got a bunch of bad boards ahead of me :-/ But for this nf7-s it is incredible. I wouldn't sell my board for anything, not even an an7 until I find out how good it is.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Aww hell no Al. I was much less informed in many of my earlier decisions than you are now or will ever likely be. I even bought a Compaq PII450 - ohhhhhh the shame :werr::-/ But for it's time, it was a reasonable machine, once I added a Monster2 and some more memory to it. Many many many hours of Quake and Quake2 fragging. The hard drive from that machine lives on to this day. But it very quickly became outdated, as there were too many proprietary components and, of course, no overclocking options.
  • LIQuidLIQuid Raleigh, NC
    edited November 2003
    my NF7-S 2.0 kicks serious ass :)
  • Al_CapownAl_Capown
    turns around to P3 450 Compaq Presario
     Indiana
    edited November 2003
    turns around to P3 450 Compaq Presario
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    LOL
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited November 2003
    I suppose I'll jump in on the "I love my NF7-s" bandwagon too...

    /me jumps in.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited November 2003
    Omega65 joins the N7-S Lovefest!

    Just built my 3rd NF7-s - It's a Great Board. Definately Abit Best motherboard ever! (to date that is... :) )
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited November 2003
    Never say it's the best Abit board made yet, Omega, until it has run overclocked for 4 years like the old BH6 mobo I used to have. It's still running a slot 1 P3 1000/100MHz server proc at 1120 MHz. It started off running a Celery 433 in early 1999 and is still going strong today.:D In about 4 months that board will be 5 years old.:eek2:

    I agree that the NF7-S 2.0 is one of Abit's best boards ever.:D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited November 2003
    I like my A7N8X-Deluxe :D

    However, I can't complain about my NF7-S either, since it overclocks higher and has been no more trouble than the ASUS...
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited November 2003
    Ordered one of these on Saterday :D
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited November 2003
    I noteced they sell the ABIT NF7 boards at my local Best Buy. That must mean something.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited December 2003
    I've had random freezes on both of the NF7-S v2.0 systems I've built. One runs W2K and one runs WXP. I think I've finally figured out the problem on the system that is actually mine--CPU disconnect needs to be disabled. If the other system hangs again--averages hanging about every 2 weeks--I'll disable CPU disconnect. I also might have to back the O/C down to 2.2GHz until I get off my lazy butt and purchase a couple higher CFM fans from svc.com to help keep the CPUs cool.

    Other than that, I absolutely love the NF7-s v2.0. And, like I said, I'm pretty sure the instabilities are due to too high of an O/C w/ not enough CFM to keep it cool in extreme circumstances and/or CPU disconnect.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Update: It came in the mail today and I must admit I'm impressed with the build quality. The NB fan is definitely going to go, in favor of the mongo passive cooler I've talked about in my Cooling Saga thread...

    I'm also debating on whether to use that SATA convertor thingy... opinions?
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited December 2003
    You might not be able to use it. Of the two NF7-S mobos I have, only 1 of the SATA converters works. :thumbsdow for the ABIT SATA converter.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    I like it for the fact you dont have to link you hd with anything else its on it own cable and its free to fly!
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited December 2003
    I really like that too. I just wish both converters worked. Oh well, at least one of them worked, eh? 1 is better than 0. :D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2003
    FWIW, both of mine work just fine. They can be flaky as hell sometimes, but I can't blame ABIT for that, since the 4 Promise RH100s I have are the same way.
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