Abit AN8 Sli vs. Abit KN8 Sli

[SlowSpyder]

Hello,

I'm looking at getting one of these boards, I have a 3000+ Venice I will use. I am looking at Newegg, and other then a bigger looking heatsink and different audio I don't see much difference between the two boards. Does anyone know what the differences are? I will be overclocking. The AN8 is about $30 more, does it have something that makes it worth the extra money?

AN8

KN8

 

[BlingBlingArsch]

good question...bump

 

[pctwo]

I know the AN8 has a passive cooling heatpipe. Don't know what else if different.

FYI, I think outpost.com has $135-$25 rebate on the AN8 SLI (shipping and tax extra) until 1/17

 

[SlowSpyder]

As far as I can tell they both use a heatpipe and passive cooling. I plan to overclock so I don't know if either is better for overclocking, or one has a better feature set... as far as I can tell they're both pretty similar.

 

[renethx]

Besides heatsink and audio, the major difference is that AN8 SLI comes with:

[*]uGuru (an overclocking utility within Windows, much better than nVIDIA nTune or other freewares)
[*]POST Code Display (an LED device to display the POST Code, located in the right bottom of the motherboard)
[*]Five fan headers in addtion to CPU fan header (vs. three in KN8 SLI, one of which is actually unusable because of its bad location near a PCI slot). All of them are controllable in either BIOS or Windows (vs. none of them is controllable)
[*]Fancy red bright LEDs
[*]Much better construction of the retail box (KN8 is near brown box)

For overclocking, both are on par (I guess). Someone prefer uGuru to BIOS manipulation. I recommend AN8 SLI over KN8 SLI because of its extras (they are certainly useful) if you can still find it. AN8 SLI will disappear shortly from any store.

 

[harobikes333]

thanks for the info I wish abit wasn't in such bad state financially.

 

[renethx]

You are looking for AN8 Ultra, aren't you? AN8 SLI is a good (or better) alternative.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Thanks for the information! Looks like I'll get the A8N.

 

[renethx]

ASUS? A8N = ASUS, AN8 = ABIT.

 

[harobikes333]

I think he meant the abit... but I'm not sure....

So even if a person doesn't need SLI you still think a person should get the sli board?

 

[renethx]

No, if you don't need SLI and can get a non-SLI version, get it.

 

[harobikes333]

thanks for the info I'll go reconsider