Asus A8N-VM CSM: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Finally Arrives

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• formulav8 - Sunday, December 4, 2005 - link

  Speak for yourself.

• jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  What are the chances that this is not Asus' HTPC motherboard?
  
  Could they be developing another model for a home theater PC? -- If so, will it use the nVidia chipset?
  
  As much as I want to use this board for my HTPC, I have to examine why Asus would not have - at the very minimum, included a spidif cable and TV out cable.
  
  Something just doesn't fit in this picture.
  
  -John

• Calin - Friday, December 2, 2005 - link

  I would like to have game performance compared to a single channel board using one of the current integrated graphic chipsets - there is a Biostar board for Socket 754 and a Asrock one. Or at least to have performance checked with a single DIMM (or two DIMMs in single channel mode)
  Thanks

• jamawass - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  Poor implementation of a good idea by Asus.This chipset screams htpc, why have HD audio without out of the box spdif? Might as well have realtek audio. The S video out should also be standard with an optional component out dongle for those who need it. Add-on brackets take up pci openings on the case, quite a few htpc cases are microatx where these slots are a premium.

• ShadowVlican - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  aw man.... if only this board can OC...

• jfreiman - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  According to the picture of the motherboad the board you tested was 1.01.
  
  However, I just read that there is a 2.0 rev board. Are you aware of this? Do you know if this is accurate?
  
  I can't find anything about this on the Asus site and would like to know about this before I get the final piece (motherboard/video) for my HTPC upgrade.
  
  Thanks for the quick review, and I too would like to know more about it's CPU utilization during DVD and HDTV playback.
  
  Again, thank you.
  
  -John
  PS. and if I missed it, what was the BIOS revision you used for your tests.

• Gary Key - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

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  PS. and if I missed it, what was the BIOS revision you used for your tests.

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  AMI 0506

• plonk420 - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  may we see HL2 and MPEG2/WMV9 decoding benchmarks, please, Anand? also, how does one go about purchasing the addon card, and is it S-Video only, or is there hope for component out?

• BigLan - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  Does the nvidia firewall actually work on this board, or does it corrupt zip archives as have been reported with the nforce4?

• Leper Messiah - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link

  Performance is mediocore, features missing, can't OC. Guess I'll be sticking with a biostar 6100-T for my next F@H box.