ABIT - ABIT AN7 NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 Motherboard Review

Digital Daily reviews the ABIT AN7 (NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400) motherboard and includes direct comparisons with ABIT’s previous, and still very popular, nForce2 Ultra 400 offering, the NF7-S:

The most essential conclusion: Abit AN7 is at least no worse than the Abit NF-S rev 2.0 motherboard. To be more specific, it is more attractive in terms of functionality: it offers better quality of integrated audio (in my humble opinion), wide potentials for adjusting the rotation of fans, support for BIOS setting profiles. But this was achieved due to a trade-off: the price of AN7 is somewhere in between 115-120$, while that for NF7-S is about ~110$ (including the Serillel adapter). The difference is not that great, but keep in mind that Abit motherboards are relatively more expensive as compared to other boards offering the MCP-T (for comparison - Epox 8RDA+ rev 2.x costs 83-85$). Actually, Abit produce has never been cheap…

As regards the mGuru chip and accompanying utilities, the real benefit comes only from the FanEQ and BIOS setting profiles.

Resume: those who already have NF7-S do not need to replace it with AN7. But the buyer of a new computer can absolutely safely choose between AN7 and NF7-S: the difference between them is only in the mGuru chip.

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