Originally posted by: housecat
Asus and DFI :thumbsup:
all others :thumbsdown:
A8n-dlx
This was my first ground up build and I would recomend if you are a gamer who wants expansion go with the a8n-sli. That said don't reuse parts for this one I would say go new on everything paying close attention to PSU, memory and video cards(some are not SLI certified even though they say they are). a8n is not a outstanding overclocker but consdiering my last 3 computers could not OC at all I am happy. I am a gamer and like alot FPS and RTS games and the a8n has handled everything I have thrown at it with out so much as a burp other then a few setup issuses mostly related to the space between the keyboard and the chair. I don't run OC normally and get great preformance with plenty to spare, and thats with a 3500 90nm.
The a8n does have a decent OC setup but it only goes so high, with a decent setup I run 2.5 ish some have done much better with nice setups. So as far as ease of use for OC is concerned its good although I have not seen nor tried the DFI or MSI sli setups yet.
The only compalint I have is that the NVchipset fan is noisey and runs warm but that seems to be the case with all of the boards.