ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe or Premium?

[Wex]

Right now I'm set on buying a Deluxe, but have heard that it has issues with RAM? If someone could recommend one of these boards and some ram along with it, I would highly appreciate it.

PS: Would those ZALMAN CNPS style heat sinks fit on these mobos? Preferably 92mm.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Search is your friend:
A8N-SLI Deluxe vs. A8N-SLI Premium

 

[The Pentium Guy]

The Premium is your best bet if you want to avoid hassles. The deluxe has that loudass fan which dies in 2 weeks.
But I'd say your best bet is the DFI LanParty SLI-D (or DR if you want some UV cables/accessories).

 

[Wex]

The only reason im not going with the DFI is because of the colors on the mobo... So i guess the Premium it is. Both mobos can run an AGP/PCI express gfx card right?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Colors? All of these boards only use PCI-e, no agp.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Rofl. The color of the board turns you away? 😵.
And yeah, there's no board that runs PCIe AND AGP except some random Biostar pos thing.

 

[Siddy]

Originally posted by: Wex
The only reason im not going with the DFI is because of the colors on the mobo... So i guess the Premium it is. Both mobos can run an AGP/PCI express gfx card right?

i jsut wrote a long responce to this, then i accidentaly close it instead of sending... o..

in short, get the deluxe (i have one) but get a revision one, ie, 1.2, 1.3.

btw, they dont work with agp

 

[Wex]

Ok, im kind of on a tight budget here, its either going to be the deluxe rev 1 or the regular A8N SLI. I just want a Fast, stable, reliable mobo.

Im having trouble finding some cheap compatible 1 gb of ram for this board...

 

[QuadMaster]

A DFI Nf4 Sli-DR is a gr8 Mobo , Forget the color but the Ocing Potential is unbeatable by any other Mobo.