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Biostar M7NCD
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100% of reviewers $74.33 7.8



Description: Powered by NVIDIA NF2 400 chipsets, M7NCD runs perfectly on Athlon XP Barton FSB400 CPUs. In addition, M7NCD supports 2DIMMs for DDR333/400 SDRAM, 5PCIs, CNR, ATA133, USB2.0, 6-Channel AC'97 Audio, Optical Audio S/PDIF output and integrated 10/100 LAN. Overall, this affordable yet powerful nFORCE2 mobo would be a vintage choice for people who long for a NVIDIA mainboard.
Keywords: nforce2 amd
Chipset: nforce2


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Old 12-22-2003, 03:46 PM   #1
ronware
 
Registered: Dec 2003
Distribution: Frugalware
Posts: 39
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $127.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.23
Distribution: Slackware 9.1



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Only two issues:

First, the built-in LAN is not seen by any of the built-in drivers in the kernel; you need to download the drivers from NVIDIA in order to use the built-in LAN.

Second, the board cannot control fan speed (this is according to Biostar).
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Old 07-18-2004, 02:36 PM   #2
pardasaniman
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Posts: 3
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 4

Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.22-gentoo-r5
Distribution: Gentoo


I give this a 4 on compatibility becuase the audio smells fishyFudge.. it has no hardware mixing 4 linux. Again NVIDIA provides proprietary drivers, but these ones don't have hardware mixing either.

Hardware mixing lets you play mutiple sounds at once without the need for a sound server, it's very annoying not to have.
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Old 08-12-2004, 06:02 AM   #3
Niels@debian
 
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Debian Sarge 2.6.9
Posts: 25
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.7-nvidia
Distribution: Debian Sarge


Nvidia network controller is now in 2.6 kernels under reverse nforce engineering (forcedeth module).

Do not need any drivers.
Need to use a sound server.
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Old 12-04-2004, 03:38 PM   #4
Sam Boyd
 
Registered: Oct 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 1
Posts: 2
Thanked: 0
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $50.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): sam_b
Distribution: FC3


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Old 01-23-2005, 09:38 PM   #5
lasindi
 
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu
Posts: 101
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $46.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10
Distribution: Slackware 10.0


Works great. The only problem I had was when I tried to use hardware mixing with the onboard sound; I couldn't get it to play several sounds at the same time (I didn't try very hard; I have a PCI sound card that I put in and works fine).
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