Asus A7N8X vs. Abit NF7-S Motherboard

[Kerry Panchoo]

i've tested the micro-atx version of the ASUS board- i've opted for the 
shuttle MN31N-- dual VGA on board. You'll have to fiddle around to get 
it to work.. but play back is pretty good


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:39:06PM -0400, Kareem Shehata wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone have experience or comments with these motherboards?  I'd like
>>to finally set up my media centre PC, and I'm thinking of using one of
>>these since they offer built-in S/PDIF.  They both use the nForce2
>>chipset, and I think they both have the RealTek ALC650 audio chipset.  Has
>>anyone managed to get audio working on one of these?  All comments are
>>appreciated.
>>Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Make sure you check out before hand, if they can encode the stuff your
> PC plays as AC3 on the spdif, or if they send seperate channels (which
> is accepted by digital computer speakers but often not home theater
> receivers).  Passing the dvd sound directly is not a problem, just the
> sound created by the machine (just in case you were hoping for soround
> sound from quake/doom/unreal).  I believe the nvidia sound system can,
> although I have no idea why there is even a need for other chips when
> using the nvidia sound.  I personally much prefer Asus over Abit, having
> never had a problem with Asus myself, but have had a few problems with
> some Abit boards.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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