First ASUS motherboard with MCP7A sells for 89EUR

Posted on Monday, October 13 2008 @ 20:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla spotted German webshops are taking preorders for the ASUS P5N7A-VM, this is one of the first motherboards with the new NVIDIA MCP7A chipset for the Intel platform. The lowest price is currently 89EUR and it should be available within a week or so.
Dubbed ASUS P5N7A-VM, this m-ATX board features nVIDIA's GeForce 9300/nForce 730i chipset, four DDR2 slots, 1 PCIe 2.0 x16 slot, one PCIe x1 and two PCI slots. It's unclear which connectors you can expect on the video side of things. The listings only mention VGA, but we're expecting the board to feature DVI and HDMI as well.

It has a total of 12 USBs, 6 internal and 6 external, 6 SATA II connectors and supports FSB speeds of up to 1333MHz. The lowest list price currently stands at €89 and it sounds like a fair deal.
The MCP7A is also the chipset that's expected to end up in the new MacBook tomorrow.


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