Asus A7N8X & A7N8X Deluxe ?

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Hello there,

What is the difference between the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and A7N8X ? Is it just Serial ATA Technology ?

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Sata and the extra onboard lan, plus I think the deluxe has better audio, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

 

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The Deluxe has better sound too.

 

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K, I know about the firewire and audio being better. Could U olease explain sata ? Thanks

 

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SATA is serial ATA - the upcoming interface standard for non-scsi hard drives which will ultimately replace IDE. Currently there are no sata hard drives - or at least they're not easy to find. You can buy adapters that will let you connect a regular IDE drive to the sata ports on the mobo, but I'd just hold out for the real sata drives. Unfortunately the only raid setup on this board uses the sata ports, so if you just gotta have raid then you'll need to wait for the sata drives or buy the adapters.

 

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In other words, U mean I can't use RAID on the regular IDE drives on this mobo ?

 

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I'm not 100% sure what you mean by your wording. There is no IDE raid on this board, but you can buy adapters to use regular IDE drives with the sata raid on this board. Does that make sense? Here's a place that sells adapters:
http://www.siig.com/products/ide/features/SATAtoUATAAdapter.html

 

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I think that you need to get the Deluxe model to benefit from the nVidia Soundstorm technology - can anyone explain to me what soundstorm is...

Yes, you have to get Serial ATA convertors for your IDE-drives unless you find any SERIAL ATA-drives (think there is a SATA Seagate Barracuda V out as we speak but in limited quantities!?)

Hotswap should be possible with SATA-drives, unless they are in a RAID1-setup - correct?

 

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@ TC, that answered my question perfectly
That was what I meant. Thanks for the link, but I think I will hold out till the real thing comes out

 

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