Is the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe still the motherboard to get?

[Salvador]

I've been watching this for a while and wanted to know if anything has come out that is better than the Asus board. Primary use is as a power user, with gaming as a second consideration.

TIA,

Sal

 

[rommelrommel]

That or the Abit NF7-S, with an emphasis on Abit if you want to overclock.

 

[Tetsuo]

Originally posted by: rommelrommel
That or the Abit NF7-S, with an emphasis on Abit if you want to overclock.

I agree with you there

 

[Gerbil333]

I have both the Asus A7N8X Deluxe 2.0 and the Abit NF7-S 2.0 (in my second gaming rig). Both are excellent motherboards! I really don't know which one I like best.

 

[MDE]

My A7N8X Deluxe is still ticking. Only feature I haven't used yet is FireWire, emphasis on yet (iPod in my future?).

 

[Yossarian451]

My a7n8x had weird sound issues, which I heard a lot of people have similar experiences, and I went through 2 of them. Then I got an abit NF7-s and have had no problems.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Yossarian451
My a7n8x had weird sound issues, which I heard a lot of people have similar experiences, and I went through 2 of them. Then I got an abit NF7-s and have had no problems.

Were you using Rev 2.0 boards? I have great luck with my newAsus A7n8X mobo.

Ausm

 

[DerwenArtos12]

a quote form the anadtech review of the DFI NFII
"However, we found there was much more to the NFII than attention-grabbing eye-candy. The NFII is also the best-performing AMD Athlon board that we have tested. It overclocks further than any other Athlon board we have seen, and it performs better at all speeds in gaming benchmarks. The board was clearly designed and tweaked for gaming performance. "