| Asus K8N: Based on NVIDIA nForce3 250 |
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Page 3 of 8 Basic Features and BIOS: CPU | Socket-754 | Chipset | nVidia nForce3-250Gb | Bus Speeds | 200MHz to 300MHz (in 1MHz increments) | AGP/PCI Speeds | Auto, 66MHz to 75MHz (in 1MHz increments) | HyperTransport | 1x-4x (200MHz to 800MHz) in 1x | CPU Ratio | 4 to Default in 0.5X increments | Core Voltage Support | 0.85V-1.75V in .025V increments | AGP Voltage Support | 1.5v & 1.7v in 0.1v increments | DRAM Voltage Support | Auto, 2.5v to 2.85v in 0.1v increments | Memory Slots | 3 x 184-pin DDR DIMM Slots
Support to 3GB DDR 400/333/266 | Expansion Slots | 1 AGP 8X Slot
5 PCI Slots | Onboard RAID/SATA | 2-drive SATA by nVidia nF3-250
RAID 0, 1, JBOD | Onboard USB 2.0 | 8 USB 2.0 ports supported by nF3-250
2 FireWire ports by VIA VT6307 | Onboard LAN | Gigabit Ethernet by 88E1111 PHY | Onboard Audio | Realtek ALC850 8-Channel
With Coaxial and Optical SPDIF Out |
As always with Asus, the BIOS is loaded with enthusiast friendly options. Like the rest of the boards, you can increase the system bus in 1MHz increments from 200MHz to 300MHz. CPU ratio can be altered from four to default in 0.5x increments and most importantly, NVIDIA’s 250 chipsets have AGP/PCI lock, like VIA’s K8T800 Pro. Unfortunately, Asus could’ve refined the HyperTransport multipliers by allowing the user to alter them in 0.5x increments instead of 1x. Other than that, everything else looks fairly standard. Since our board was flashed with an earlier version of the BIOS, we did notice problems with our SATA drive. Like it’s the case with many socket 754 chipsets, the board did not recognize the SATA drive during the installation. Thankfully, once we flashed the BIOS to the latest version, Asus had fixed the issue.
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