A8N-VM CSM/NBP Advice

pcknight

pcknight

pcknight

Permabanned
Joined
23 Apr 2006
Posts
1,045
Location
Earth
My mate has:

A8N-VM CSM/NBP Motherboard

It has on board Graphics. Is it easy to turn off the onboard graphics and then use a PCI-e Graphics card? Thanks
 
Yes, you can turn it off in the BIOS. You should notice when using dedicated video card with videoram that system memory will be 1GB wheras when you use onboard it'll show total minus whatever is shared to the GFX card ie 968MB.

I have the CSM (non NBP version) and using offboard gfx, but I used onboard for a month or so.
 
What would he be looking for in the Bios to do that?

squiffy What do you think of that Board? Any issues with it? My mate has not installed it yet but he had it cheap and he wasn't after anything special. He will be using Geil value ram too. I think he has SI-120 Heatsink too. Will that fit ok without any hassle? Cheers

What is the NBP version then?
 
Good board, rock stable. It's a rubbish overclocker, and it has S3 resume problems (at least mine does) but apart from that it's fine. The southbridge runs warmish, fitted the small blue Zalman heatsink (one at £4) Dunno about that heatsink, I'm using the heatpipe from my 4400 x2 with the 3700 (gaming rig has Ninja) No problems with onboard video, except it lacks S-Video on the backplate, need a PCI backplate. Don't know the NBP version but noticed it comes with component/svideo/composite backplate? Could do with one of those, if it works with my board.
 
When it comes out of standby it's really slow, like XT speed or something. Not that it bothers me, as I don't use standby. It's not like it's a laptop. Someone else with this board doesn't have this issue, think he uses different memory. I'm using Corsair DDR value select CAS 2.5
 
good stable board but make sure you put heatsink on southbridge,
shows high vcore on my athlon 3.2 only snag with me.

i got mine running in sugo evo (matx case).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom