ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard (Athlon X2/ Athlon FX/ Athlon 64/ Sempron, nForce4 SLI X16, Socket 939, ATX, 4GB DDR, 1000MHz Bus)

Reviewed by: DennisDSorensen

Duration of ownership: 1 Year

Strengths: Well designed package, with easy setup. This is the king of motherboards hands down.

Weaknesses: NONe

Overall: Please note the comment above about the ISA slot in this review must not know much. There are no ISA's on this board Hello!!! This board rocks and gives you plenty of choices for you processor. I would say if you feel this one is pricey. remember how long will it be before you need a new one. suggestion if money is an issue buy the lowwer end processor and upgrade that later.

Reviewed by: timbullard

Duration of ownership: 1 Month

Strengths: It's sweet, hard to beat. I aimed at the best and got it, using this TOP 100 as my guide, which Asus advertises. It's worth the money.

Weaknesses: NONE

Overall: The best deserves the best. I'm a journalist with a weekly newspaper tech column in South Carolina which runs in two papers. I won't have to upgrade for a long time. http://www.timbullard.com

Reviewed by: olmose

Strengths: This ASUS board works great when it works! I have had two after a year one quit working, would not even post. The secon

Weaknesses: I have had two, after a year one quit working, would not even post. The the second has a bad connection in the rear sound port.The front works fine.

Overall: I have filled out the ASUS problem form for a return warranty # but after three weeks nothing from ASUS.I don't think ASUS is going to stand behind the three year warranty on this board.I tried returing it to Fry's Austin Tx. but they have no return policy with ASUS.

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Strengths: SLI, Heat pipe, great features

Weaknesses: Audio, Audio, Audio

Overall: Got this board mid Feb...installed with AMD 4000+ 2.4 chip, 2gb Kingston HyperX DDR400, ATI x1950Pro XTR 512mb graphics card and Creative X-Fi Gamer sound card,right away the onboard audio went fritzy...There was static/interference through the speakers...sent back to Mwave, got brand new one and right off the bat the same issue. As I mentioned I already have a sound card, lets face it who uses onboard audio, but it's still a big minus that there was such a big issue with TWO brand new boards

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Strengths: Quick, easy setup. Lots of cables and dongles provided. Jumperless design and no fans.

Weaknesses: Could not get PVR board to work in ISA slots. Windows kept erroring on boot. Replaced with another brand board and had no problem. Probably jumperless design caused unresolvable IRQ conflict.

Overall: Liked having external SATA plug, but it is SATA 1. Install straight forward and board layout means that everything reaches. Good documentation and software. Double LAN connections is nice, but unresolvable IRQ conflict is vexing.

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Strengths: The best mainboard i ever tested

Overall: The innovative AMD solution brings you enjoyable gaming experience. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe supports dual PCI Express x16 slots running at full speed to liberate graphics cards from the narrow bandwidth platform of x8 speed only. It not only inherited AI Life series features, such as Stack Cool 2 and SATA on the Go, but also some new innovations, including 8-Phase Power Design and Fanless Design. With ASUS' innovative designs to bring out the real potential of NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 chipsets, gamers can easily enjoy faster graphics performance and higher video quality today, and be ready for the even more demanding tasks of tomorrow!

Reviewed by: looki

Strengths: Its works a rocks fast, works cool and quiet[excellent work of asus in it], the SLI works fine in 16x,one of the things that left me intrigued is the AI Life Game....

Weaknesses: Dont have high definition audio codec,dont suport the new type of sata[sata II],the bus suport only 1Ghz while a8nsli premium suports 2Ghz, it is very limited in qntity of Fan Connectors[only 1!!!!]

Overall: I would like to see this motherboard supporting the opterons processors,....... because the limited qntity of Fan Connectors, I cant make a powerful cooling system...... I think ASUS need to make a hard work to make these motherboard better....