How much will the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard cost?

[TopAce]

Does anyone know when the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard suporting dual pci-e graphics cards will be available to purchase, and how much they will cost?

Thanks,
Ace

 

[sexualrug]

I cant tell you for sure, but likely will be december before it is available. It should be around 200 dollars.

 

[Mrvile]

Are you sure you need SLI? SLI motherboards will cost around 200+ bucks, while plain NF4 motherboards will cost 150 - 170ish.

 

[Thermalrock]

ya will definitely be a bunch more than the 143 bucks you got to 1500. add 100 to your budget and youre set.

 

[imported_IKnowNothing]

I believe MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte will have SLI by mid December or sooner. Cost anywhere around 200 dollars.

I don't mind dishing out the bucks for the SLI motherboards. I think for the extra 50 bucks its worth having a great upgrade option. The option for SATA II and the firewall protection alone are woth it for me.

I think video cards are going to have to go through a major overhaul like cpu's are starting to do. eg. two cards on one. So as far as performance increases go I don't think we will see anything stellar anytime soon unless some radical design is implemented. That said, I think buying a SLI board is woth waitng for. Buy a decent PCIe card now or when they come out. Upgrade when you can and buy another and increase your performance up to 80 %?. I really don't think the next gen video cards will double the Ultras (if they ever come out) in performance and you can bet the Ultra will be a lot cheaper to buy and give you the same performance if not better than one next gen card.

To me SLI is looking like a very decent upgrade path. SATA II will be very nice if you have a hard drive that is compatible!

 

[TopAce]

That's what i plan to do. I also don't plan on spending $50-$100 more than planned to have a better upgrade path. I hate it when you buy something, but then weeks later, something better comes out.

Ace

 

[Thermalrock]

Originally posted by: IKnowNothing
I believe MSI, ASUS and Gigabyte will have SLI by mid December or sooner. Cost anywhere around 200 dollars.

I don't mind dishing out the bucks for the SLI motherboards. I think for the extra 50 bucks its worth having a great upgrade option. The option for SATA II and the firewall protection alone are woth it for me.

I think video cards are going to have to go through a major overhaul like cpu's are starting to do. eg. two cards on one. So as far as performance increases go I don't think we will see anything stellar anytime soon unless some radical design is implemented. That said, I think buying a SLI board is woth waitng for. Buy a decent PCIe card now or when they come out. Upgrade when you can and buy another and increase your performance up to 80 %?. I really don't think the next gen video cards will double the Ultras (if they ever come out) in performance and you can bet the Ultra will be a lot cheaper to buy and give you the same performance if not better than one next gen card.

To me SLI is looking like a very decent upgrade path. SATA II will be very nice if you have a hard drive that is compatible!

you do know you dont need the sli for the firewall yea? the ultra has the same one.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: TopAce
Does anyone know when the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard suporting dual pci-e graphics cards will be available to purchase, and how much they will cost?

Thanks,
Ace

Asus A8N-E Premium: November 2004, $190-260
Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe: December 2004, $260-325
Asus A8N-E Standard? (unannounced): 2005, $130-190

Show us your specs and we'll help you fit the SLI board in if possible. Since it will cost most likely $300, it's out of your budget range for now. It may be bundled with two GeForce 6600 GT's in the future (maybe, but that's not included in the $300).

tomshardware.com

As our nForce4 Ultra sample did not exactly work as smoothly as expected, we asked the three big motherboard guys -- Asus, Gigabyte and MSI -- for their opinions on nForce4 availability.

Asus
Availability of nForce4 Ultra motherboards A8N-E (Premium/SLI):

second week of November
Asus is considering bundling two GeForce 6600GT graphics cards with the A8N-E SLI.

Gigabyte
nForce4 Ultra motherboards will be ready at the beginning of November. nForce4 SLI and VIA K8T890 will not be available before the beginning of December.
Product Name: Gigabyte 8 Sigma Series, e.g. GA-K8NXP-9 (NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra)

MSI
The K8N Diamond (featuring nForce4 SLI) is already slated to hit the shelves in late November. The product name might be changed to K8N Neo2 Extreme Edition in the US.
The K8N Neo4 Platinum will be the Ultra version, available two weeks earlier than the Diamond edition. It is supposed to be on the shelves by the middle of November.

 

[TopAce]

Ok, my specs are as follow...

Antec Tower Case $66
Fortron 530W Power Supply-$75
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester-$309
Corsair Value Select 2 x 512Mb DDR PC-3200-$105
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM SATA Drive-$89
Lite-On 52X CD-ROM-$19
Lite-On 16x Dual DVD drive-$69.99
Microsoft HOME-$91
6800 GT PCI_EXPRESS- $499

total with Motherboard around $1600

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: TopAce
Ok, my specs are as follow...

Antec Tower Case $66
Fortron 530W Power Supply-$75
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester-$309
Corsair Value Select 2 x 512Mb DDR PC-3200-$105
Western Digital 120GB 7200RPM SATA Drive-$89
Lite-On 52X CD-ROM-$19
Lite-On 16x Dual DVD drive-$69.99
Microsoft HOME-$91
6800 GT PCI_EXPRESS- $499

total with Motherboard around $1600

I think you should be able to get that 6800 GT for less when it comes out and that will help you afford the motherboard. Otherwise, you've chosen very well unlike most people and there's not much you can reduce on. That totals to $1322.99 right now if I added right. The ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard I'm guessing will cost $300 so that would be $1622.99.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Damn..I wish I had that kind of cash to shell out on a comp...::jealous::

Sorry..I know that comment isn't on topic..but I am jealous :|

 

[gobucks]

Personally, if the 6800GT doesn't go down in price soon, I'd just keep it cheaper and get a 6600GT for $180. There is no way I'd pay $125 extra just to get the PCIe version vs. the AGP version. In fact, I think ASUS is bundling its SLI boards with 2 6600GTs, not sure what the price would be, but I'm sure it'd be way cheaper than getting a $500 6800GT and SLI mobo, and would have about equal performance.

 

[kogase]

The performance of two 6600 GTs seemed nowhere near one 6800 GT.

 

Off topic-sorry . is it me or just no one sees that he can get 2x512 MB = 1GB at an insanely cheap price considering it's a corsair value-only $105. TopAce can you plz show me the place where you buy that thing. Thx a lot.
Now, about eh 6600gt and 6800gt, I have to agree with kogase. 2x6600gt is no where close to 1 6800gt. Considering VIA will have dual PCIe and ATI will have multi rendering soon, I think you should shell out for one 6800GT, single PCIe mobo, wait and see. Besides, the initial version always have lots of bugs. And 300 for a mobo isn't crazy. And as long as VIA and ATI come out with their SLI ready mobo, the price will drop significantly. Just a thought.

 

[schnoid]

Hi all! Sorry to dig up this old thread, but I was just wondering if you had something to back up the claim that 2 6600GTs aren't as good as one 6800GT. Just curious. Thanks!

 

[TheNiceGuy]

ahh, try the Anandtech article on "November Gaming System Buyer's Guide". But actualy, they are about the same, except that 2 6600s are chaper than 1 6800GT.