ASUS P5NSLI AI Lifestyle Series - motherboard - ATX - nForce 570 SLI Intel

Advantages: Optical out, 2 LAN out
Disadvantages: SLI only x 8 mode, for me thats no worry.

...I am really impressed with this board. Installation was easy & overclocking capabilities is outstanding and higly configurable . Comes with Vista drivers. This board clocks easily up to 1225mhz, 1200mhz proved very stable. Asus Probe II that comes with the package is a great tool for protecting components from high tempratures. The motherboard minimum temp warning can be set from 70° upwards (hom much confidence Asus?), although I never had it above 50° Asus Q-Fan2 allows for up to 4 chassis & CPU fan to run quiet, no more need for front bezel fan controllers. 3 different setting can be aplied to chassis fans & CPU independently. Only con is PCI Express slots running in x 8 mode when used in SLI cofuguration, but you only have to worry about this when using big gun cards like the 8800GTX. NOTE: Use DDR2-1200 to make way for a blast!!!... Read review

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Advantages: Quality and fast overclocking, great for games
Disadvantages: In the shadow of the Core 2 duo motherboards

...the top the heat dissipater. The ASUS M2N32-SLI motherboard comes into its own when overclocking it. The manual supplied comes with lots of information about the ins and outs of the BIOS features and on the the support disc offers an array of programs which helped me to name the two most important ones are:- 1.AI Gear allowed me to quickly change the CPU frequencies with a few clicks in the operating system and overclock it to my current computer working load 2.ASUS probe 2 allows me to check the motherboard and CPU temperatures and fan speeds to make sure that things are working properly. A customizable threshold can be set to set an alarm off to detect any problems. I found this is essential when booting up for the first time or when overclocking. The motherboard also comes with a built in sound card, a wireless router and a microphone... Read review

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Advantages: Array of Features, Overclocking and many more.
Disadvantages: Price

.... INTRODUCTION: Yet again ASUS has produced a brilliant motherboard. ASUS Striker Extreme lives up to the quality standards set by ASUS. This motherboard has a host of features to talk about. The layout of the motherboard is very good. It is based on the highest end Nvidia nForce 680i SLI chipset. It is a full ATX Form Factor(24x30cm) motherboard. It features LGA 775 Socket for Intel processors to be installed. FEATURES: * It support old Intel processor like Pentium 4 and Pentium D. * It also support all Core 2 Duo family processors. * It support 1333 FSB, which mean we can use the upcoming Intel processors having 1333 FSB with a BIOS update. * It support a maximum of 8 GB of DDR2 RAM in Dual Channel. * This motherboard has three PCI Express x16 slots, two of which you can use for SLI mode. * It also has two gigabit Ethernet... Read review

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