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List Price: $129.00
Our Price: $120.10
Your Save: $ 8.90 ( 7% )
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Manufacturer: Asus
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Binding: Electronics
Brand: Asus
EAN: 0610839141074
Feature: Support Socket AM2 for AMD® Athlon¿ 64 X2/ Athlon¿ 64 FX/ Athlon¿ 64/ Sempron¿
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Label: Asus
Manufacturer: Asus
Model: M2R32-MVP
Modem Description: None
Processor Count: 0
Publisher: Asus
Special Features: nv:Form Factor^ATX|Processor Interface^Socket AM2|Processors Supported^AMD Athlon 64|Processors Supported^AMD Athlon 64 FX|Processors Supported^AMD Sempron|Processors Supported^AMD Athlon 64 X2|Additional Technologies^HyperTransport Technology|Front Side Bus^800MHz|Front Side Bus^1000MHz|Northbridge^ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200|Southbridge^ATI SB600|Number of Slots^4|Number of Pins^240-Pin|Maximum Memory Supported^4GB - 32bit|Memory Supported^533MHz DDR2|Memory Supported^667MHz DDR2
Studio: Asus
System Bus Speed: 1000
System Memory Size: 0
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Features
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Support Socket AM2 for AMD® Athlon¿ 64 X2/ Athlon¿ 64 FX/ Athlon¿ 64/ Sempron¿
AMD 580X CrossFire Chipset/SB600
2000/1600 MT/s
DDR2-800/667/533, Max 8GB
ASUS AI NET2 remotely detects cable connection the second and any faulty connections
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Editorial Reviews:
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The M2R32-MVP supports dual PCI Express x16 slots running at full speed to liberate graphics cards through ATI's CrossFire Xpress 3200. ASUS Special features such as Stack Cool2 and Q-Fan2 that provides quiet and peaceful computing. It also offers better system performance for graphics-intensive applications, and delivers cutting-edge audio features that dramatically enhance the quality of voice signal. Thoughtful design further allows quick and easy system setup like Q-Connector and EZ Flash2. With exclusive innovative designs that bring out the real potential of the ATI CrossFire Xpress 3200 chipset, gamers can experience faster graphics performance and higher video quality today.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great basic gaming board
Comment: Put an AMD Athlon 64X2 6000, 4-gig G-Skill suped-up memory, and a Radeon 3870OC card and this machine is playing every game thrown at it in a smooth and silky fashion. It is a bit cramped inside, and not too much thought was placed on where some connections were placed, but it is working beautifully. Well worth the $70+ dollars spent on it.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Do not buy this motherboard
Comment: This board has cost me a huge amount of time and lost productivity. Some of the problems, *after* sending it back to ASUS and having it returned to me:
- Whenever you modify the BIOS, you have to power down and restart the machine because the keyboard controller stops working (this sometimes happens when you're stil l in the bios!)
- It does not assign addresses correctly, so my $300 Areca RAID card is useless with it.
- The only fix for the address conflict issue is to run with ACPI off. However, the only way to do this on Windows is to use Standard PC mode (i.e. don't use 3 of the 4 cores on my cpu). Trying to boot this board as an MPS multi-processor board under Windows simply blue-screens with a page fault in non paged area.
It's taken two months and much work with support for all of the other hardware I have in this machine to conclusively determine that the board is the source of all of these problems. In the meantime I have lost huge amounts of work to diagnosing it, reinstalling windows 3+ times in various drive configurations to rule out bad disks, etc.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worked Perfect for Me
Comment: I put a amd X2 processor in it and a 3870 video card. 2 Gigs of ram. Needed to update the bios. Plenty of overclocking features if your into that sort of thing. Have the cpu clock set @ 250 running my processor @ 3.125ghz. It will support 1066+ memory. I just ordered some 1150 for it to see if I can get it faster. Will be crossfiring it in the future. Nice that both PCIE slots are 16x
Watch the automatic cpu voltage selector in the bios. Sometimes it way over voltages the cpu. I had to leave it turned off.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Asus customer support is HORRIBLE
Comment: I was a big Asus fan simply because they've made great products but this isn't one of them. After 2 months it died and failed to post. Narrowed it down to the motherboard. No problem, I thought. Just visit Asus website and make an RMA - WRONG. The only way to get an RMA is by calling Asus, on my dime, and listening to Asus ads for half an hour. Then get treated like dirt and transferred around to support, then RMA, then support, then level 2, then rma again. Never again will I buy an Asus item. Never. Search google for "Asus RMA support" and you'll see what I mean. It's enough to make your head explode.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not a good crossfire board
Comment: The layout of this board is horrible.
The largest issue with this board is SATA placement. All four internal SATA connectors are right under the second PCIex16 slot. If you're running crossfire with a full-sized card and sata drives, be prepared for a nightmare. It's impossible to attach 4 sata drives without issues. I've yet to get a "problem free" layout.
Add in the fact that the floppy connector requires you to WRAP the fdd cable around the second video card causes more problems.
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