Yoshi19
May 04, 2003, 12:46 PM
Is the revision number something that can be upgraded once you purchase the board? So
anotherwords, is it flash ROM like the BIOS which can be upgraded? Or is it something
physical on the motherboard? When did the Asus A7N8X motherboard get released that has
revision 2.0 on it? Is there a way I can tell on the retailer's website what revision this
board has? How important is it that you have the latest 2.0 revision? Are older revisions
very buggy or have a lot of performance and stability problems?
MasterMind
May 04, 2003, 02:24 PM
Older revisions are need not to be buggy by default. Its a continous upgrade process which gives you a better & better product. If you upgrade your BIOS, the revision number will be automatically change to the newer number of BIOS flash file version. Its just like Win95 then 98 then 2000 and so on.
The Motherboard revision is usually printed on the board itself next to the model name. Look here at ASUS (http://www.asus.com.tw/inside/product_revno.htm).
DIABLO
May 04, 2003, 02:30 PM
Sure you can upgrade the bios but you can't upgrade the motherboard revision because the board is physically different from revision to revision. The revision's before 2.0 are perfectly stable i own 1.4v and it works fine the only big difference between 2.0 and the earlier revisions is that 2.0 supports the upcoming 200MHz FSB Athlons.
MasterMind
May 04, 2003, 02:33 PM
Oops sorry.... :) BIOS revision will change and not the Mainboard revision. Thanks DIABLO.
The upper para of my above post is for BIOS revision and second one for mobo revision.
Yoshi19
May 04, 2003, 07:48 PM
Someone also told me that the motherboard revision 2.0 fixes an overheating problem on either the northbridge or southbridge. Is this at all true?
Arc Ryeback
May 04, 2003, 08:47 PM
I think the mobo rev. fixes how the temp is reported. Of course Asus is notorius (sp) for their misreading temps.
Badidoh
May 05, 2003, 12:45 AM
Okay, with the A7N8X, 2.0 is fully supporting 400FSB, 1.03, 1.04. 1.06 supported 333FSB
also, 2.0 is using the new nforce crush chipset
DIABLO
May 05, 2003, 01:06 PM
Originally posted by Yoshi19
Someone also told me that the motherboard revision 2.0 fixes an overheating problem on either the northbridge or southbridge. Is this at all true?
The new south bridge revision is suppsed to run cooler my 1.4v boards south bridge doe's run hot and you can't keep your finger on it but the system is still perfectly stable. The new chipset revsion is also supposed to support software cpu cooling.
