Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe $174

[kamranziadar]

Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nforce4 SLI, Athlon FX/64 Socket 939, PCI Express, Audio, Gigabit Lan, Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 1394 Motherboard has hit a new low of $174, $5.88 shipping.

CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 Retail Box $189 shipped free

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[pclstyle]

how's this board compare to dfi ut sli-dr?

 

[drewski]

Originally posted by: pclstyle
how's this board compare to dfi ut sli-dr?

if you go SLI, the other pci-e slots are blocked with this board. iirc, on the DFI, the x4 slot is outside of the two x16 slots. a consequence of this is that there is less space between the x16 slots on the dfi so cards with big cooling units may be pretty packed together.

the Karajan audio module on the DFI is suposed to produce better quality sound w/ less CPU utilization.

the DFI also allows vDIMM up to 4v, though it has been shown that the nF4 does not need the memory running in Sync w/ the CPU so, ironically, being able to go to high memory frequencies is less valuable on the one board that natively allows you to do this easier.

the slots and stuff on the DFI are UV reactive??

i'm sure there are other diffs that i'm missing.

 

[hyeclass]

and if you go with dfi, u should check out some of the threads in the hardware forum, seems lot of people having problems

 

[mrrman]

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe nforce4 SLI, Athlon FX/64 Socket 939, PCI Express, Audio, Gigabit Lan, Serial ATA 3Gb/s, 1394 Motherboard has hit a new low of $174, $5.88 shipping.

CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 939 Retail Box $189 shipped free

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I think I saw the CPU deal at Monarch for $179...I am getting that right now..

 

[mrrman]

sorry about that ...hit the wrong button

 

[pclstyle]

Originally posted by: drewski

Originally posted by: pclstyle
how's this board compare to dfi ut sli-dr?

if you go SLI, the other pci-e slots are blocked with this board. iirc, on the DFI, the x4 slot is outside of the two x16 slots. a consequence of this is that there is less space between the x16 slots on the dfi so cards with big cooling units may be pretty packed together.

the Karajan audio module on the DFI is suposed to produce better quality sound w/ less CPU utilization.

the DFI also allows vDIMM up to 4v, though it has been shown that the nF4 does not need the memory running in Sync w/ the CPU so, ironically, being able to go to high memory frequencies is less valuable on the one board that natively allows you to do this easier.

the slots and stuff on the DFI are UV reactive??

i'm sure there are other diffs that i'm missing.

thanks for the info. what's the x4 slot used for generally anyway?