I bought this Asus board to replace a MSI board that had gone bad. I installed it, hooked it up, turned it on, and it booted up the very first time. It had no problem with my old memory which is slower than 1066 (800 I think). I had to re-do my network settings which is par for the course with a new mobo.
Now for the fancy stuff. Despite the fact that this board has THREE video hookups (VGA, HDMI, DVI), only ONE of them will work at a time because of the limitation of the Nvidia 8200. So for dual monitors you need to add a graphics card. Luckily I had one ready.
Then I tried the digital audio. The manual said coaxial SPDIF but it was actually optical TOSLINK on the board. I could not get it to work, even with the latest development version of Ubuntu 10.04. From what I could find on the support forums, you need to use the built-in HDMI (and perhaps *only* that) for video in order for digital audio to work, and nobody outside the Windows universe has ever done it successfully.
Analog audio worked with no fuss when I tried it.Get more detail about ASUS M3N78-VM AM2+ Nvidia 8200 DDR2-1066 Nvidia Geforce 8200 IGP mATX Motherboard.
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