![]() There are both connections via digital S/PDIF and mini jacks giving you the flexbility to connect a few speaker setups to it. For the NF-M2, the motherboard supports 7.1 surround sound. With that, the two PCI slots should be good for most people who aren't building monster machines such as a Hydra like HTPC.īesides video, sound is very important when setting up a good HTPC system. This is a mATX board so real estate is a premium. With those two in the system, you're pretty much left with nothing left until more products come out using the PCI-E X1 slot. In my setup, I have one Hauppauge dual tuner card as well as ATI's HDTV Wonder for OTA HD TV. With the included sound and GiG-E network card, you can fill up the PCI slots with TV tuner cards. I hope more motherboards use this new design as it's a lot simpler and easier on the hands than the normal retention clip. This makes accessing the clip a lot easier and I was able to easily pop cards in and out of the motherboard without using a pair of tweezers to flip the clip. The push button clip is located on the outer edge of the PCI-E slot and does not sit underneath the video card like in most motherboards. The PCI-E slot utilizes my favorite current design in a retention clip. There's one PCI-E X16 slot for you to upgrade to another video card as well as one PCI-E X1 and two PCI slots. Color wise, it features a nice mix of blue and black. So many other boards I've encountered had this connection more in the middle but the NF-M2 nView's CPU power connector sits in an easy to reach area. The CPU power connect is nicely placed on near the top outer edge for easy access. Area around the CPU isn't bad so you should be able to put on some nice silent coolers. They are also color coded so you can easily tell which slots to put your memory in for dual channel access. That should give you plenty of memory expansion room. Something that I really like is that the board has four DIMM slots for memory. You should choose either board depending on your needs.The layout of the board is pretty good and contains a lot of features. Another drawback of ASUS board is that max DDR2 voltage is only 1.9V, while many DDR2-800 modules require more than 1.9V (if you plan going for DDR2-800). ![]() As you can see from the specs, ASUS board comes with analogue TV out but lacks S/PDIF out, while ABIT board lacks analogue TV out but comes with optical S/PDIF out. Overclocking is certainly attractive but not important for HTPC because there won't be extreme CPU intensive tasks in such a system. Accessories: 1 x HDTV/AV/S output module (component, composite, S video).Many report no booting at FSB 215MHz to 220MHz. The specifications are basically the same as ASUS A8N-VM CSM. ASUS M2NPV-VM (Global site) or ASUS M2NPV-VM (USA site).Accessories: 1 x USB 2.0 (two ports) and IEEE 1394 (one port) bracket.Several users reported stable FSB over 300MHz. HD audio connectors and optical S/PDIF in and out. Memory: DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and non-ECC, un-buffered memory, max 8GB.I guess ABIT attached this word to the model name to emphasize dual display capability via onboard VGA and DVI (although this is standard among all the GeForce 6150 boards except Foxconn). "nView" is just NVIDIA's multi-display technology. ABIT NF-M2 nView (Global site) or ABIT NF-M2 nView (USA site).The following is cited from The *Official* MSI K8NGM2-FID GeForce 6150 Motherboard Thread.
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