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dmathog at sbcglobal

Jan 1, 2008, 11:04 AM

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ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production?

The ASUS M2NPV-VM was a very popular htpc motherboard
and it is still listed on the ASUS site, but it is
becoming hard to find. For instance, neither newegg
nor mwave currently have it listed, except in the
former case as an "open box" special. It looks like
this mobo is being phased out. Has ASUS released a
specific replacement, or do they expect people to use
their 690G board instead?
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Jan 1, 2008, 12:19 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

he ASUS M2NPV-VM was a very popular htpc motherboard
and it is still listed on the ASUS site, but it is
becoming hard to find. For instance, neither newegg
nor mwave currently have it listed, except in the
former case as an "open box" special. It looks like
this mobo is being phased out. Has ASUS released a
specific replacement, or do they expect people to use
their 690G board instead?

M2N-VM SE
M2N-VM DH

Those are really close. DH has some kind of remote control included,
both have wlan integrated. But price is almost same than M2NPV

Then there is:

M2NBP-VM CSM

It is almost same board, but with quatro chip. Not bad price imo.

-Kane
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dmathog at sbcglobal

Jan 1, 2008, 2:40 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

Ismo Tanskanen wrote:

M2N-VM SE
M2N-VM DH

I can't find those on the ASUS site, and since they
only use a 6100 graphics set, they may be an even
older board. Newegg has the SE and it doesn't show an
adapter for component or S-video out.

M2NBP-VM CSM

It is almost same board, but with quatro chip. Not
bad price imo.

Again, no adapter for component or S-video out.

It doesn't look like any of these 3 is targeted at the
htpc market.
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mitchell.gore at gmail

Jan 1, 2008, 4:17 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

On Jan 1, 2008 4:40 PM, Mathog David <dmathog [at] sbcglobal> wrote:

> Ismo Tanskanen wrote:
>
> M2N-VM SE
> M2N-VM DH
>
> I can't find those on the ASUS site, and since they
> only use a 6100 graphics set, they may be an even
> older board. Newegg has the SE and it doesn't show an
> adapter for component or S-video out.
>
>
> M2NBP-VM CSM
>
> It is almost same board, but with quatro chip. Not
> bad price imo.
>
> Again, no adapter for component or S-video out.
>
> It doesn't look like any of these 3 is targeted at the
> htpc market.
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I just bought a new M2NPV-VM last week....

Hrmm.. i must have just caught it in time..

Mitchell

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Jan 2, 2008, 8:48 AM

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ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

Still available on Amazon for only a few dollars more than it was on
newegg.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FVPSBA

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Jan 2, 2008, 10:47 AM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

Erik Mellquist wrote:

Still available on Amazon for only a few dollars more
than it was on newegg.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FVPSBA

"Still" likely being a very short time - that link
says:

Only 5 left in stock--order soon.

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Jan 2, 2008, 1:46 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

smo Tanskanen wrote:

M2N-VM SE
M2N-VM DH

I can't find those on the ASUS site, and since they
only use a 6100 graphics set, they may be an even
older board. Newegg has the SE and it doesn't show an
adapter for component or S-video out.

M2NBP-VM CSM

It is almost same board, but with quatro chip. Not
bad price imo.

Again, no adapter for component or S-video out.

It doesn't look like any of these 3 is targeted at the
htpc market.
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They are not old models, my wholesaler just got those two boards on
stock. Imo they are great to multimedia/htpc
- GF6100
- spdif
- dvi
- serial port
- firewire
- matx

http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=345&l4=0&model=1343&modelmenu=1

Svideo and component are indeed disappearing from htpc mobos.
Why are you building htpc with svideo? All modern displays can use vga,
dvi or hdmi

Like this:
http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=567&l4=0&model=1944&modelmenu=1

-Kane
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dmathog at sbcglobal

Jan 2, 2008, 2:54 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

Ismo Tanskanen wrote:

Svideo and component are indeed disappearing from htpc
mobos. Why are you building htpc with svideo? All
modern displays can use vga, dvi or hdmi

Our current TV is not "modern" in that way - it only
has composite, component, and antenna (coax) inputs.
We won't be replacing it any time soon, so any htpc I
build has to work with it.

I'm not trying to build an htpc without vga/dvi/hdmi
capabilities, no question we will need (one of) those
sooner or later, just not yet.
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derliebegott at gmail

Jan 2, 2008, 3:51 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

2008/1/2, Mathog David <dmathog [at] sbcglobal>:
> Ismo Tanskanen wrote:
>
> Svideo and component are indeed disappearing from htpc
> mobos. Why are you building htpc with svideo? All
> modern displays can use vga, dvi or hdmi
>
>
> Our current TV is not "modern" in that way - it only
> has composite, component, and antenna (coax) inputs.
> We won't be replacing it any time soon, so any htpc I
> build has to work with it.
>
> I'm not trying to build an htpc without vga/dvi/hdmi
> capabilities, no question we will need (one of) those
> sooner or later, just not yet.

when I was looking for a mythtv mb, I also saw 2-3 from Biostar. Here is one:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138057

good: S-Video, DVI, HDMI, VGA, 8ch sound .... partly bad: ATI/AMD graphics

and here is the one with nVidia graphics and hdmi port ... but no dvi,
but hdmi->dvi adapters can solve this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138061

$75 is a pretty good price for this.
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Jan 2, 2008, 4:17 PM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

On Jan 2, 2008 6:51 PM, Ma Begaj <derliebegott [at] gmail> wrote:
> 2008/1/2, Mathog David <dmathog [at] sbcglobal>:
> > Ismo Tanskanen wrote:
> >
> > Svideo and component are indeed disappearing from htpc
> > mobos. Why are you building htpc with svideo? All
> > modern displays can use vga, dvi or hdmi
> >
> >
> > Our current TV is not "modern" in that way - it only
> > has composite, component, and antenna (coax) inputs.
> > We won't be replacing it any time soon, so any htpc I
> > build has to work with it.
> >
> > I'm not trying to build an htpc without vga/dvi/hdmi
> > capabilities, no question we will need (one of) those
> > sooner or later, just not yet.
>
> when I was looking for a mythtv mb, I also saw 2-3 from Biostar. Here is one:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138057
>
> good: S-Video, DVI, HDMI, VGA, 8ch sound .... partly bad: ATI/AMD graphics
>
> and here is the one with nVidia graphics and hdmi port ... but no dvi,
> but hdmi->dvi adapters can solve this:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138061
>
> $75 is a pretty good price for this.
>

That second one even includes a HDMI->DVI adapter.
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msherman at projectile

Jan 3, 2008, 6:37 AM

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Re: ASUS M2NPV-VM end of production? [In reply to]

Phil Bridges wrote:
>> when I was looking for a mythtv mb, I also saw 2-3 from Biostar. Here is one:
>>
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138057
>>
>> good: S-Video, DVI, HDMI, VGA, 8ch sound .... partly bad: ATI/AMD graphics
>>
>> and here is the one with nVidia graphics and hdmi port ... but no dvi,
>> but hdmi->dvi adapters can solve this:
>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138061
>>
>> $75 is a pretty good price for this.
>>
>
> That second one even includes a HDMI->DVI adapter.

What motherboards are people recommending these days for intel cpus?

- Marc
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