ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard (AMD Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64, Socket 939, nForce4 SLI, ATX, 4GB DDR, 2000MHz FSB)

Reviewed by: AxionStudios

Duration of ownership: 2 Years

Strengths: Rock Solid, Very stable with the correct ram. Overclocks very well! Handles studio Photo and video intence projects on a scale of 9.7 out of 10.0

Weaknesses: None that we have found in the 4 boards we are running at Axion Studios. But than again we don't drive with our foot to the floorboard... BY MASS O/C'ing.

Overall: The reviews posted are quite a bit older and the new bios has been out for a long time, so who knows why they blasted the board... Asus is still #1 in all the 2007 board shoot-outs... Of all the Asus boards we have used, the A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard is the best we have found. We are running an AMD 64 3500 and have a cooler master Gemin II with duel fans mounted over the board. Video is also ASUS 256mb Nvidia pci express. This board had been around now for 2 years now and blows MSI,EPOX and the others off the road... In most cases you can find one now for under $100 bucks... ASUS is the only MOBO we trust!

Reviewed by: tnpthehammer

Strengths: When the southbridge fan is working it runs fine.

Weaknesses: Southbridge fan suxors!

Overall: The first southbridge fan quit and they sent me a new "improved" fan. I had to take my mobo out, not fun after getting everything setup in my case the way I wanted it. I thought, great problem solved. A few months later the same thing happened. I guess I will have to get another mobo. I will never buy an Asus again.

Reviewed by: sgtdisturbed47

Strengths: Overclocking is a breeze, layout is perfect for my mid-tower, installation went without a hitch

Weaknesses: none. If the chipset fan bugs you, enable Cool N Quiet.

Overall: Overclocked my AMD X2 3800+ to 2.4 GHz on 1.36 VCore. stable and remains cool and quiet (or relatively so). Great for the beginner overclocker, NOT recommended for us advanced folks who want some more BIOS options and more bells & whistles. Handles my ATI X1800XT (Overclocked through Catalyst to 690/1600), and remains stable. Did I get lucky? Or is this just a good board with a bad chipset fan. Either way, it's a great budget board.

Reviewed by: cruzzin

Strengths: Dual PCI - Loaded with extras - raid, usb, sata ports

Weaknesses: Chipset fan!

Overall: Nice features...plenty of bells and whistles. But still not sure if ASUS put out the best board this time. I feel they should have kept it in testing a little longer. I'm not totally comfortable in completing the switch. I also have the ASUS A7N8x Deluxe as my primary pc till I iron out the few bugs in this one. Although it does smoke my other pc away! Stability??? We shall see.

Reviewed by: Babbler

Strengths: Great features. Great accessories/cables included.

Weaknesses: CHIPSET FAN SUCKS!!!!

Overall: At first I was really impressed with this motherboard - the performance was astounding. Then things started to go wrong within a month...The chipset fan died. Doing some research I discovered these motherboards are renound for this! Have now upgraded to the premium version which has no fan and so far (touch wood) Ive had no problems. Worth the extra $40!

Reviewed by: almmain

Strengths: lots of ilusion goes down

Weaknesses: every thing in this mb fail

Overall: nothing works fine...!!!!!!!!expensive mb, graph cards, expensive psubad bios, bad nvidia chipserthe most expensive mb I've ever hadthe worst oneif tthey don't arrange bios problems...asus---->never more...!!!!!!!!!!