Chaintech 7njl6 nVidia Socket A ATX Motherboard / AGP 4x/8x / SATA / RAID

Friday, October 28th, 2005 | Motherboards, Reviews

This board seemed to be popular choice for a budget motherboard, but unfortunately, it is too good to be true.

Reports are mixed on this board. Some have installed it without problems, but too many have had issues or one sort or another.

The board includes

SATA
USB 2.0
Socket A
Built in LAN and audio

At first appearances this board gives a good lot of features for the money.

I will state now that I don’t recommend this board, too many people have had issues with it. It’s drivers are not up to date, and are hard to find, support from Chaintech is not that great, instability like random shutting down and crashing.

In short a board with lots of features, but if you don’t get one that works straight away, you are in for a hard time. And overclocking is not recommended.

2 Comments to Chaintech 7njl6 nVidia Socket A ATX Motherboard / AGP 4x/8x / SATA / RAID

Bob
August 6, 2007

Bought this board from tigerdirect to build a machine for my wife. Got a bad cpu, which tiger replaced. Went with dual channel ram and nvidia graphics card fx5600. Except for once in a while seeing problems at post with gibberish appearing, which requires power off and reboot, this computer is very fast-will run circles around my P4 2.4, even with graphics intensive apps. We have had none of the many issues I have read about in various blogs, guess I got one of the good boards.

Peter
August 8, 2007

I’m glad to hear that you managed to get a good one. This post was created almost two years ago and there are often revisions made to motherboards over their lifetime before they stop producing them. If it suits your budget and your needs and works when it should, what else could you want?

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