Motherboard compatibility test
ASUS M2NPV-VM




ASUS M2NPV-VM

Motherboard specifications

CPU

Single-socket AM2
AMD Athlon 64 X2
AMD Athlon 64 FX
AMD Athlon 64
AMD Sempron

Chipset

NVIDIA GeForce 6150

Expansion slots

2 x PCI Express
2 x PCI

Storage

2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33
4 x serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s

I/O

SoundMAX ADI AD1986A 5.1-channel High Definition audio codec
NVIDIA nForce 430 built-in Gigabit Ethernet network controller
IEEE-1394
USB

Front side bus

1000/800 MHz



Test results

Tested configuration

CPU 

Single AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (dual-core)

Front Side Bus

800 MHz

BIOS

Phoenix Award version 0504 Date: Oct/17/2006

Memory

2 GB DDR2 RAM

Storage 

System drive and A/V drive on the main serial ATA controller.

Software

Matrox X.tools build 6157 and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0


Installed expansion cards Read about expansion slot numbering at Matrox
PCI slot # Slot type Card installed

1

PCI Express (x1)

2

PCI Express (x16)

Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe 128

3

PCI (32-bit)

Matrox RT.X100

4

PCI (32-bit)


Additional required software
We installed patches and drivers in the following order:
1

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

2

NVIDIA GeForce 6150 + nForce 430 Chipset WHQL Driver, version 8.24 Date: Jul/11/2006
(downloaded from the ASUS website)

3

SoundMAX AD1986A Audio WHQL Driver, version 5.10.0.1.4151 Date: Jun/13/2006
(downloaded from the ASUS website)

4

Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe 128, version 1.12.00.110 HF WDM Date: Aug/25/2006

5

ACPI driver for ATK0110 virtual device, version N/A Date: May/05/2006
(downloaded from the ASUS website)


Comments

Note: Unless otherwise specified, validation testing is performed using the system/motherboard default settings.

For improved performance, we recommend that the AMD Live! option is Disabled in the system BIOS.

Tested display cards
Card   Driver   16*   32*

Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe
(128 MB)

Version: 1.12.00.110 HF WBM
Date: Aug/25/2006

Yes Yes

MSI NVIDIA PCX5750
(128 MB)

Version: 84.21 Forceware
Date: Mar/17/2006

Yes Yes

ATI Radeon X1950 PRO
(256 MB)

Version: Catalyst 6.11
Date: Nov/15/2006

Yes Yes

ASUS NVIDIA EN 7950 GT
(512 MB)

Version: 93.71 Forceware
Date: Nov/02/2006

YesYes

Tested sound cards
Card   Driver   PCI
SoundMAX ADI AD1986A

Version: 610.01.4151
Date: Jun/13/2006

Onboard


*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits



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