Asus M2NPV-VM

The M2NPV-VM is an AM2 MATX motherboard released early in the sockets lifetime and phased out towards 2008. One of the only MATX boards at the time that featured both a DSUB and DVI port, the onboard Nvidia 6150 allowed for acceptable performance and dual monitor support on a system that uses very little power. The M2NPV-VM featured very little overclocking support, and very stringent memory requirements, only being able to provide 1.9V to the DIMMs. Signaling a cheapening of the Asus brand, the M2NPV-VM saw many issues - many dead on arrival, flakey, or unstable.

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Asus M2NPV-VM
MSRP $88.00
Release date October, 2006
Brand Asus
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good power consumption
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can play high definition content with onboard video
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very finicky with RAM
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unstable compared to older or more expensive Asus boards
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hot north and south bridges (southbridge doesn't even have a heatsink)
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Details

Features

  • supported processors & RAM: AM2 (many later models require the BIOS be updated), 4 x DDR2 800MHz @ 1.8V, see website for list of supported RAM
  • Graphics: onboard Nvidia 6150 (DSUB and DVI connections, HDTV output with bundled module), PCIE 16x support
  • Audio: onboard SoundMAX
  • Storage: 6 x SATA II, 2 x IDE, 1 x Floppy
  • Network connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet
  • External/Internal expansion ports: 2 x Firewire (1 on back pannel), 8 x USB 2.0 (4 on back pannel), 1 x parallel, 2 x serial, 1 x PCIE 16x, 1 x PCIE 1x, 2 x PCI

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1.  avatar yale said:

If you can even get this now you should probably avoid it unless it's $30 and you're only using it for a media/living room PC. I made the mistake of trusting Asus without reading reviews - my previous A7V8X was completely rock solid for many years before I upgraded to this.
Sep 24, 2008 3:30pm
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*yale @ 9/24/2008 3:30:26 PM

  • commented: "If you can even get this now you should probably avoid it unless it's $30 and you're only using it for a media/living room PC. I made the mistake of trusting Asus without reading reviews - my previous A7V8X was completely rock solid for many years before I upgraded to this. "

*yale @ 9/24/2008 3:28:37 PM

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M, 2, NPV, VM, M2, 2NPV, NPVVM, M2NPV, 2NPVVM, M2NPVVM