MasterBillyQuizBoy

There's plenty of talk on these boards, however, I'm a little confused.

From what I've gathered, the 2.0 is the better board. Does it always have active cooling on the Northbridge. There's some ebay sellers that claim to be selling the 2.0, but the pictures show no active cooling. so...I'm left wondering maybe they are selling the S2?

here is a link.

one with active cooling http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

and one without http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

I don't get it, aren't these auctions for the same board? Why do they look different?

nacat78

Yes, they appear to be the same board. I believe when they first came out that they had passive cooling, then later added the fan later due to heat issues and overclockers. This is the same as the board I am using now, but replaced the chipset HSF and added the same on to the SB also... Great motherboard, I would go with the first one you listed

The Duke

The new NF7-S Ver2 I bought few months ago off Ebay has the fan!
Had I seen the below link I would of jumped on it in a second when they reciently had "NEW" not reconditioned!!!
Both the above and the AN7 are excelent Socket A OCing MBs
http://www.pcprogress.com/product.asp?m1=pw&pid=ABAN7

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Stillhouse

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

Weird. The sticker on the board says v2.0;

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/5637/pic55q8ns.jpg

But the manual says It's for a NF7-S2G;

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/5161/pic56q8ut.jpg

Seems kinda fishy.

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MasterBillyQuizBoy

I already asked him if it was the version 2.0, but I hadn't noticed the discepancies you pointed out. I'll wait til the reply and then say something. However, if the auction doesn't go much higher, it's still a really good deal! Only 5 more days left....hehe...

thanks.

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think I swaped it, th eheatsink to make it less noisy, I had big zalman 120mm fan that was blowing on heatsink as well

Version 2.0, supports 400MHz and above

meh...I dunno. This is why I hate ebay. I'm going to ask why the manual says its for a NF7-S2G...

Stillhouse

It could be that the NB fan crapped out(V2.0's are known to have had dodgy fans) and was replaced with a passive heatsink.

If it were me I'd go for the one with the fan. But all-in-all, the NF7-S v2.0 is one of the best Socket A overclocking boards out there. Pair it up with a 2500+ Barton XP-M and it'll fly!

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MasterBillyQuizBoy

I'm hoping that a Barton 3000+ XP that I found will test ok. For me, this will be the cheapest and best upgrade ever. I'm thinking of just getting the board anyway, and if my found CPU is bad, just buy one. It'll still be a great, cheap, easy upgrade.

Urufu_Shinjiro

The Abit manuals are multi version manulas, it will be for the Nf7-S2, S 2.0, and S2G.

Stillhouse

Here's the problem: The manual, installation guide, etc. that came with my NF7-S v2 makes no mention of the NF7-S2G. The one shown in the auction is specific only to the S2G. Another thing that bothers me is that the v2 is supposed to come with Abit's Serillel IDE to SATA adapter, which I see is mentioned in the specs of the supposed v2, but isn't shown in the included accessories.

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Urufu_Shinjiro

Ok, I actually went and looked at the links (shoulda done that right away ), both boards are the NF7-S v2.0. The NF7-S2 has a different layout of the southbridge and the IDE connectors, I had the S2 and it' very different. And if the white sheet with the jumper settings is what you refer to as the S2G manual, there's two sides to that sheet, lol.