Differences between NF7-S and AN7?

Looking at these two boards, I'm confused their differences. Can anybody
explain in simple terms?

The prices (at Newegg) are within pennies, so I'm confused about which to
buy.

TIA

 

The AN7 uses the latest 400mhz approved chipset. Only the version 2.0 of the
NF7 has that, and many unscrupulous suppliers seem to offload the pre 2.0
boards on those who don't know this.

It also has Abit's new hardware monitoring and control system.

So the board are similer, but you should remember that most other
manufacturers relaunched their Nforce boards when the 400mhz approved
chipset arrived, something Abit failed to do. This is Abit's attempt at
having something "new" to compete against those "new" boards.

 

If I had to go for one or the other and make the choice *now* then it would
be the revision 2 NF7-s. I have read too many horror stories and issues with
the AN7 to give me confidence in buying one of those without enough 'good'
posts about them to balance them out.

You can have a look at the reviews of both boards and you will see the
differences between them. Also Abit have announced that this would be the
last board that they will make for Socket A, the AN7 that is.

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Also Abit have announced that this would be the

I do like it when suppliers think they can dictate what the market will buy.
The only way to force peole onto the Athlon64 platform (as I presume this is
what ABit will build in the future) is for AMD to stop making the AthlonXP.
They can't do that until they have a family of athlon64 CPU's at the current
Athlonxp prices. I'm sure AMD want to milk the "must have athlon64 at any
price" market before they push the athlon64 down market.

 

It has 3 firewire instead of two that the NF7-S has as well. Also, it
is not yet soundstorm certified I believe although hopefully it will
be in the future, but then again who knows...