Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe

this looks awsome, what is that strange fan unit you see in the images for though?

 

It's for keeping the PWM area cool if you're using water cooling, mosfets and caps tend to get very hot, and that leads to instability, its ok in a well ventilated case, but many watercooled cases have bad ventilation.

 

oh i see, ill be testing a watercooled PC soon, ill have to check for that problem.

 

Resetting CMOS

Instead of fiddling so much with the ill-placed jumper, would it not be easier just to disconect the rig from mains and then pop the battery out for a few seconds?

 

Close but no cigar

The guys and gals at ASUS has done a impressive job on this board, atleast from a technical point of view, but i'm a little bit disapointed of all the things that could have been designed just a little bit better to make it perfect. Ofcource 'perfect' is a highly subjective opinion, but as the review points out, there is room for improvement. For example, is it really neccessary to have three (!) seperate power cables down from the PSU to feed it? Atleast group them together so one could zip-tie the cables together for a cleaner look.

While I'm no motherboard designer by any means, I'm puzzled over why they don't allow space around the CPU socket for an enthusiast cooler, on an enthusiast board?

Nowadays, when 'everybody' got a windowed case, I think the vendor that comes up with a decent board in one or atleast a few colors (like black/gold), would sell alot. And i'm not just talking about the PCB. I mean, enthusiasts knows what a SATA port looks like, or manage to identify USB headers with a little help from the manual. It does not need to be flashy red or whatever. All the white printing identifying every single component (both on the chips themselves and the PCB) is also uneccesary and messy in my opinion. Just call the board 'stealth' and it would probably sell itself.

Am I the only one with a can of spray paint in my hands, voiding my warranty?

PS: Will never double reply again *promise*

 

That's what I ended up doing because I got fed up with fiddling with the CMOS reset jumper. It's no excuse for a poorly placed CMOS jumper though - it could have been in an number of places other than right under the bottom PCI-Express x16 slot.

If anything, it's a sign of a good board when you're picking on little things like the placement of a CMOS jumper.

 

While I agree with some of your points StreaM, the little white writing on all the motherboards I've ever had has been extremely usefull to me, especially in times when I don't have a motherboard available.

 

Is the DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR a dual X16 SLi motherboard too?

 

DFI only uses the Nforce 4, Nforce 4 Ultra, and Nforce 4 SLI chipsets in their boards; as things stand, there is not a dual X16 DFI board.

 

Blasphemy...

 

WARNING A8N32-SLI DELUXE

Please heed my warning....
i have been incontact with asus reps for last couple weeks without a valid solution being presented... now asus refuses to reply to my email because they cannot figure out their problems.
I have two machines side by side
both amd 4k's one using a8nsli premium board other is using a8n32-sli deluxe
the a8n-sli premium board runs perfectly, beautiful design... cootos'

the a8n32-sli deluxe ..... this motherboard DOES NOT support memory divider or a ratio option.... the option this board does come with is a simple fsb limiter.... this DOES NOT set the mhz on the ram itself, its designed to cut the ENTIRE fsb down to the selected speeds (will drop ur fsb from 800 to the selected speed *200 or 216 or 233 w/e u were attempting to set the ram speeds to* I have proven this to asus level 2 tech support in which i am now being ignored and i have tried all the latest bios releases....
furious with asus i doubt i will be purchasing another asus board for quite some time even tho i am a fan of the a8n sli premium board soley because of their attitude and ignorance regarding their problems. If ss's are needed to back up my statements please feel free to msg/reply/email w/e ill put them up when needed, both boards side by side, with and without limiter being set.
AVOID THIS BOARD
do yourself a favor and boycott this board

 

It's an intresting post(Welcome to bit-tech btw), but to be honest, this isn't the case for most people. I've seen plenty of screens of people who've used dividers etc, for msot people, this board works fine. It seems to have some issues with X2's, but thats it for the most part.

Sorry if you think me cynical, but I've read alot about this board, I've talked to quite a few people who've personally used it, and none have had the above problems. Hope you get it sorted out though

 

need advice

im building a computer for the first time and so far my system is consisting of a couple of parts

asus a8n32 - deluxe/wifi
2X bfg nvidia 7800 gtx 512 oc
amd athlon64 fx-60
antec true power 2.0 TP-II 550 "550 watt power supply"
creative labs soundblaster X-fi fatality
2X western digital raptor 150gb

and its been killing me trying to find ram I simply need to know what is the fastest ram I can put in this system "no over clocking" i don't got the skizzles, but simply what is the fastest compatable ram, ocz, corsair, kingston? also any suggestions on cases would be appreiciated, im also looking for a pci card that'll let me record tv so that to

 

I just got one of those boards....you'll see what i did to it in my project log...once i'm done....hehe

 

To be honest, I wouldn't bother with onboard wifi, if you can fit wifi in between all your other cards, chances are it'll be higher quality.

 

I'd look at FX-60 if you're thinking about getting FX-57.

 

oooo thats a nice proccesor i 'll swich my list skr#$ the f-57 but it'll be compatable right?

 

ok would a linksys wifi card work with a x-fi and a tv tuner card would it all fit

 

Good point. I think Bigz would be more qualified to answer that question then me. While I have the board, I'm unsure of how it would be to use all three PCI slots, thoughts bigz? For sure it'd be impossible to do so if you had two graphics cards in there, or one with a dual slot cooler, but so long as your cooler was single slot I reckon it'd be possible.

If space is an issue, its possible you would in fact be better off going for the deluxe wifi version

 

you could have SLI running with two cards if they're single slotters - so long as you've got a fan blowing air over the components, it should all fit in fine.