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    MSI K8N SLI or GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI

    Since last week Giga price dropped drastically, I imagine because MSI SLI is now in shops.
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    MSI K8N SLI or GIGABYTE K8NXP-SLI

    Two excellent boards and stable. You won't be gambling with an unfinished BIOS. The main difference is Giga has only two PCI slots: one for the WiFi, one for decent sound and you have none left. Actually with SLI one PCI could be too close to the GC fan. One PCI really accessible that's not...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: many defective boards identified

    And as I already said, few want to take this ASUS board as the reference for what SLI needs or not and from that blame the PSU. MSI SLI board specification is 18A minimum for 12v rail. Not 24. When one of those suspected PSU will prove to fail too on Gigabyte, MSI and DFI, it will be time to...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: many defective boards identified

    You don't get my point. I'm not questioning the fact this PSU doesn't fit with ASUS SLI and it is dual rail related, I am wondering which part isn't where it should be. One says those dual rail PSU are not fit for SLI and shouldn't advertise "SLI ready", I answer wait until you get the same...
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    A8N-SLI Deluxe: many defective boards identified

    There may be issues between some of these PSU and THIS motherboard. But before only blaming two rails PSU in general as inapropriate for SLI I'd wait how other SLI motherboards behave.
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    MSI K8N Diamond prices and availability

    One of them. http://www.rue-montgallet.com/...12/sites/26/liste/101/
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    Asus Vs. Gigabyte SLi Boards

    In this case, apart from the bugged and noisy ASUS SLI, the MSI Ultra should give you the slots you need. I imagine you'll find soon TVtuner cards for PCIE_1x
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    Asus Vs. Gigabyte SLi Boards

    It's in shops in Europe here and there for few days now, so I guess it's a matter of less than a week before you find it anywhere. I'm used to the biased vision forums give when those complaining or having problems post first. However for the ASUS it goes way beyond the borderline of what...
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    Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI SATA problem

    In the meantime I read about fixing a similar problem with this mb in an other forum and went back here convinced you hadn't disable totally the RAID. Glad to see you fixed it . As for the the hard reboot needed hmmm...have you tried to maintain pushed the reset button a couple of seconds...
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    MSI K8N Diamond prices and availability

    Diamond SLI available in few shops in Paris. I hope the Ultra is coming soon.
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    Why does anyone care about NCQ support?

    Good question. I read about the same opinion. I imagine people want something they are sold to work, no matter it's useful or not... it's a matter to see how manufacturers are reliable or not.
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    Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI SATA problem

    While I'ma at it, how is the chipset fan noise?
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    Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI SATA problem

    may be you need to create a RAID array with one HD?
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    Best PCI Express Socket 939 Motherboard?

    Considering the number of very serious issues reported repeatedly about the ASUS-A8N-SLI (I know there are some happy users too, but I don't want to gamble) it's eliminated from my list. I think ASUS was too eager to be the first and released an unfinished product. They may pay for it in...
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    Gigabyte SLI

    Bizarre. Just looked there, no one is reporting any OC problems.
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    a8n-sli chipset heatsink fan

    Gigabyte's fan is a bit bigger when you see both mb by side, first reports from users I read say it is not noisy, but we have to wait for more reports.
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    * ASUS A8N-SLI experiences/results/issues

    Hmmm...haven't make my mind yet on which NF4 board to get (more coming to get a real choice) but that noisy chipset fan, reported by many, is probably what will prevent me from getting this mb. I like rather silent computers and I don't see the point to spend some extra bucks for silent fans...
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    Best PCI Express Socket 939 Motherboard?

    So far, and despite a low end NF4 version it seems to go better for OC than ASUS SLI which prolly means ASUS has still a long way to go. If it's only a BIOS problem btw...... Wondering if ASUS' good reputation for high quality stuff isn't crumbling a bit on this one from being too eager to...
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    Chaintech VNF4/Ultra available!

    Noticed that too. I guess the low price comparing to other announced NF4 Ultra mb has to do with less this and that. 4 SATA instead of 8 is fine with me, but no firewire at all is rather frustrating. I like the passive chipset cooling = less noise. I have decided to wait a bit for some...
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    Here's a list I'm keeping with the Socket 939 K8T890 , nForce4, SiS 756, & ATI Xpress 200 Next Gen Motherboard Roundup

    "ASUS A8N-E Premium ANNOUNCED ONLY, ?Jan. 2004? " I imagine you meant 2005? Nice review
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    Am I the only one who's seen this? Monarch has Gigabyte NForce4 boards in stock!

    looks like pretty cheap for a NF4 Ultra. The code for the Gigabyte NF4 Ultra is K8NXP-9.
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    ASUS vs Gigabyte (nofrce4)

    The question is about which kind of NF4 board we are talking about. If it is the non-SLI (NF4 Ultra) the situation is somewhat reversed. One is close to exist, the other seems for much later. Gigabyte should be released in the follwoing days, at least their pre-series samples have been...