Product Details
Description:
The A8N32-SLI Deluxe Desktop Board supports dual PCI Express x16 slots running at full speed to liberate graphics cards from the narrow bandwidth platform of x8 speed only. It not only inherited Ai Life series features, such as Stack Cool 2 and SATA on the Go, but also some new innovations, including 8-Phase Power Design and Fanless Design. With ASUS innovative designs to bring out the real potential of NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI X16 chipsets, gamers can easily enjoy faster graphics performance and higher video quality today, and be ready for the even more demanding tasks of tomorrow.
Quick Glance
Supported Processor: Opteron, Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 X2, Sempron
Interface Connection: Parallel Port Yes, Audio Line In Yes, Audio Line Out Yes, Microphone Port Yes, S/PDIF Yes, Network (RJ-45) Yes
System Board Style: ATX
# of Memory Slots: 4
Processor Socket: Socket PGA-939
System Chipset: nVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16
Memory Technology: DDR SDRAM
Multi GPU Support: nVIDIA SLI
# of PCI-e x16 Slots: 2
Summary
Product Title: Asus AI Lifestyle A8N32-SLI Deluxe Desktop Motherboard - nVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 Chipset - Socket PGA-939
Manufacturer: Asus
Power Score: 4.2 | 30 Reviews
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Product Reviews (14)
a8n32-sli
Strengths: everything
Weakness: price you get what you pay for
Very stable board. Pair with the corsair 3500-LL and they run so smooth haven't had one problem since loading.Make sure to get a good 600 watt or better power supply with sli plugs also.This is the smoothest system I have ever put together since win 3.1
By anonymous; - Dec 7, 2005
Powerful. You must become familiar with the board... its "unique"
Strengths: Powerful. passive cooling is nice. great overclocking features
Weakness: lots of "unique" things about the board the bios is quirky
The board overvolts your cpu off the bat. keep that in mind.
The board auto overclocks your graphics card.
If your using ddr500, watchout when you change your FSB. The memory divider is set to 250/200 by default.
Many things about its settings out of the box cause people headaches. Once you get passed them, this board is fantastic.
By DarqAngels - Feb 11, 2006
Very nice, but......
Strengths: Its works a rocks fast, works cool and quiet[excellent work of asus in it], the SLI works fine in 16x,one of the things that left me intrigued is the AI Life Game....
Weakness: Dont have high definition audio codec,dont suport the new type of sata[sata II],the bus suport only 1Ghz while a8nsli premium suports 2Ghz, it is very limited in qntity of Fan Connectors[only 1!!!!]
I would like to see this motherboard supporting the opterons processors,....
... because the limited qntity of Fan Connectors, I cant make a powerful cooling system...... I think ASUS need to make a hard work to make these motherboard better....
By looki - Apr 16, 2006
Best Board for AMD Processors
Strengths: Very Quiet, Bios is very simple to Tweak for enthusiasts Lots of ports for future upgrade
Weakness: Pricey and every seller have it on back order If you setup SLI with Cards, you will be waisting one PCI port because the those cards have big Fans.
I love this Mobo, I always have been using Asus for it quality and reliabilty. The MB is very stable at higher Clock Frequency. Make sure you get a very good memory like Corsair or OCZ for Low Latency. Looks like the Socket 939 is going to be absolete after a while but this MB by far the best bang for you buck(even better then EFI LAN PARTY) I have not tried Asus support yet but I heard that you...
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By dradwan05 - Jan 24, 2006
Feature rich, but oddly designed
Strengths: Feature rich. Abundant connectors. Passively cooled means low noise. A modest array of overclocking features.
Weakness: Totally unusable PCIe x4 slot. Incompatibilities.
The copper heat pipe rising up across the plane of the PCIe x4 slot obstructs the insertion of any expansion card into this slot. An unconscienable design oversight for such an expensive motherboard. The RAID 5 feature is worthless: way too slow. Don't let that feature sell you on this. This mobo is good for gamers, as advertised. But look elsewhere for a powerful Media Center or general high-end...
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By kschap; - Jan 25, 2006