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excaliber has the nf7 rev. 2.0 without soundstorm for $97 vs the -s for 118. is this board the same performance wise minus sound or is the -s the most popular for a reason?
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HA beware of the flames that will follow. just messing,emericanchaos said:excaliber has the nf7 rev. 2.0 without soundstorm for $97 vs the -s for 118. is this board the same performance wise minus sound or is the -s the most popular for a reason?
james.miller said:arrrgh, abit's site is a confusing mess lol
ok
the nf7 doesnt have sata,firewire or soundstorm.
the nf7-m is identical to the nf7 but also has on-board video.
the nf7-s has firewire,sata and soundstorm, no video.
i think i got it right this time.
james.miller said:is there no possible way to order the board?
SinsFeelNatural said:damn another issue, MSI's board says
Audio Processing Unit(APU) encodes audio in Dolby® Digital 5.1 format for full surround sound effects
and the board comes with a S Braket for the other surround channels
But no mention is soundstorm..
jeez. I wonder if it is the same
emericanchaos said:well i'm asking because of the apparent price differences. i got hammered in taxes on my check so i'm a little lighter than i had hoped. i may just go with the -s though.
BTW to be sound storm it has to have SPDIF. that's what most boards are lacking in order for it to be called soundstorm. as long as it doesn't say like c-media blah blah codec like the reg nf7 does not -s than it should be the same as sound storm just without SPDIF.
Audioaficionado said:I don't think the M even comes in rev2.0
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/comparison.php
Note the FSBs.
Just get a cheap GF4 M440 for ~$40 and upgrade it later.
You'll get a better overclock with either the NF7 or NF7-S.
SinsFeelNatural said:
Yep, I seen it with my own eyes. I ended up getting the MSI delta g-l
More features and even though I seen it for myself the v. 2.0 sticker i didnt need the video and read the spec sheet and some of the speeds are slower