Advantages: Quiet ,fast, ease of install, value for money Disadvantages: IDE connectors too close to power connector. Power hungry
...decided to invest in the Asus A8N-SLI Platinum, on the basis of the board being both affordable, and good value for money (or at least I expected this to be the case :)), and so i spent £95 on the board (yes, there are possibly cheaper places, but this was bought over the counter, (you know, that thing with a person behind, where you can see who is selling you your goods)......:-)
The layout on the box was impeccable. Together with the board, we ... ...The driver CD from Asus has pretty much all you need to get your mainboard purring smoothly. Although i would advise a quick visit to http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_win2k_6.86.html
to check for up dated drivers if possible. (Please make sure that you choose the correct platform driver. Choosing a wrong one can damage your board and Windows installation).
Oh by the way, did I mention that my AMD 4600x2 loves this board? Yup, love at first ...
jose.madeira 13.09.2006
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Advantages: quieter running,Onboard network firewall,good onboard sound chip,excellent manual Disadvantages: fiddly connectors for external I/O on sound
This mother board is for those who demand the most from their PC.Its main features are:-
939 capable for the latest generation of CPU from AMD.
64 Bit capability.
onboard graphics chip
onboard built in NVidia Fire wall and NVactive armour for inbuilt ethernet, this feature helps take some of the network tasks from the CPU thus helping to increase performance.
AMD cool "N" Quiet .Dynamically alters CPU speed voltage and amount of power depending ... ...speed low latency piont to point link. Can help intergrated circuits run up to 48 times faster this includes the network and modem side of the mother board.
SATA II. this can transmit at 3Gb/s offering up to twice the bandwidth of current serial ATA. This offeres lower voltage requirements.
Dual raid controllers offering many configuration of SATA arrays.
NVIDIA nFORCE4 SLI allows the following
RAID 0,RAID 1,RAID 0+1 AND JBOD configuration for ...
slavinvorlon 17.06.2006
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Advantages: Heatpipe over fan means quieter+Feature packed Disadvantages: Expensive to buy
Asus are top motherboard brand, and the price of their flagship board, the a8n premium, shows this. The board has lots of features such as 8 sata connectors and dual gigabit lan which is useful if you are an office user, or if simply want to play games over LAN. It supports AMD's latest and most popular processor, the Athlon 64, which is available from the value 3000+ model at around £99 to the mega-fast, mega-expensive FX series processors, such ... ...and is still highly spec'd. Asus also have a reputation for reliability and as a mainstream manufacturer warranties are reassuringly long - (most problems occur/are found upon installation)
RAM provision is also good, supporting DDR400, the fastest non-intel supporting RAM currently available and again, a range of budget through to high performance RAM is supported to satisfy the needs of both the dedicated PC builder or the casual user.
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Uberloinvongenchler 16.02.2006
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Advantages: Overclocks well, lots of features Disadvantages: Expensive
I've had this motherboard for a year now and i'm really impressed - i had my doubts as to whether the passively cooled chipset was a good idea, but even when masively overclocked it still doesn't break 36°.
This motherboard is a VERY god overclocking board, i am running an AMD 3700 KAB1E, a stepping renowned for it's overclocking prowess, and this motherboard has taken it from 2.2 GHz to 3.07 GHz, which is the CPU's limit and a 40% overclock. The ... ...which just shows you how much more this motherboard can give - add to the fact that even with such strain on the motherboard it not only never misses a beat but also had more to give as my CPU is holding it all back!
The on-board RAID controller is good enough for a RAID0 setup, and the SLi works, however it only has 2x 8x lanes when in SLi mode rather than 2x 16x lanes as some motherboards offer, however this doesn't make much difference in speed.
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Jakg 26.07.2007
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