Biostar M7NCD Pro Motherboard

Pros: Excellent value, overclockability, stability, features, software, 6 USB 2.0 ports, LAN
Cons: Small manual, comes with no backplate, onboard sound quality only fair

I bought the B iostar M7NCD-Pro motherboard after the refurbished A sustek A7N8X-VM refused to work. And I am glad the A sus ...

Pros: Good features for the price. Overclocking utilities that don't require reboots.
Cons: You wanted documentation with that? We don't have real documentation for THAT piece.

I'm a pro. I've been building my own computers for over 10 years and have built dozens, if not over a hundred systems for other people and businesses. I've agonized over 486 systems with cranky sound cards and gloried over the ease of putting together ...

Pros: Onboard sound has to much PCI interference due to bad shielding issues
Cons: No SATA, but the newer Biostar M7NCD Ultra has that.

I have used 27 of these in my shop as well as 35 Shuttle AN35N Ultras. Both are great Nforce2 boards. The reviewer below that has all of that experience seems to need a lot more experience. An XP2400, 2600, 2600 Mobile will run fine. What happened was ...

Pros: Cheap, stable, overclockable, dependable
Cons: Poor documentation

One of the other reviews here lists all kinds of problems. The real problem is that his is not an M7NCD PRO. The plain M7NCD is not overclockable.

I have 2 of these boards. One has a Barton 2500+ in it that is happily running at 202 x 11 (3.4 GHz over stock). The other has an XP 2100+ running at 166 x 13 (4.3 GHz over stock).

The only problem with this board is the manual which is horrible. You had better know what you are doing already because you aren't going to find much help there.