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ASUS Asus P5N-E SLI

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Very Good

  • Pros
  • Rear panel eSATA port
  • Cons
  • Rear-panel breakout required for 7.1 analog audio

User Reviews for ASUS Asus P5N-E SLI

  • Reviewed by: dp4900

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: Not sure

    Weaknesses: Does not allow overclocking, frequent freezing and restarts for no obvious reasons. SLI .... and so what???

    Overall Evaluation: I got this motherboard for the reason of having 2 IDE's. But unfortunately it is very poor. I thought my problems were from some other components and for 3 months, I have been doing nothing but changing swapping etc... I took the PC back to the vendor and he discovered the freezing is coming from the MB after he put his own HW. He replaced it and I still see the freezing happening from time to time and now that I saw many other forums it sounds like a "feature" in this motherboard. HAve to live with it. 2 IDE's is a big disaster. I tried few weeks setting 2 HDD on the primary IDE finally gave up. Very disappointed with it my old ASrock was even better. I thought behind the name Asus was something reliable and quality but I fully disagree do not buy this board.

  • Reviewed by: allenp

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: No install problems.

    Weaknesses: Support. Unexplained e-sata problems

    Overall Evaluation: Have problems attaching e-sata drive. Hangs system. Must reboot with drive attached. Also get garbled desktop when backing up to e-sata drive. Could be Vista problems.Their website seems to be running on a Commodore 64 and manned by 1 person. Good luck downloading drivers!

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