We are going to look ABIT's newest revision of the NF7-S today, Version 2.0. This is the fourth revision of arguably the fastest AMD platform motherboard to date, and the revisions have come fast and furious. You may think that 4 revisions since the NF7 was unleashed in November 2002 may be a bit much, each revision has brought excellent features and significant features to the table. When version 1.0 (v1.0) was released, enthusiasts rejoiced over the wealth of features included, and at the time, the 237 FSB. Unfortunately there were some features missing that hard core enthusiast wanted. Most notably were the four mounting holes around the CPU socket to use beefier heatsinks, and watercooling, as well as audio and data corruption issues. To many enthusiasts surprise, v1.1 started showing up around January 2003 with the four mounting holes, and soon after that, v1.2 with better components, the audio issue resolved, and more voltage options. Then nVidia ceased making the original Crush18 chipset and unveiled the Crush18D will full support of 400MHz FSB for the new Barton's. In a nutshell, that's where we are at today. I'm sure there were other issues that the revisions fixed, but for the most part each revision was substantially better.
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