ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra

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I am RMAing my Epox mobo tommorow and have been researching all night long for a repleacement board. I have decided on the ASUS A8N-E Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131530 ) since I will probably go 8800 before I go SLI again. I based my decision mainly on folks posts here and customer reviews at Newegg and through Google searches. I will cross post this in the AMD mobo section also for wider coverage but if a Mod must delete I understand. Please the one in Asus section.

I will be running the following components on it and just wanted to see if anyone has any thoughts/input/warnings before I order this. Probably by lunch tommorow.

Components:

-Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego 2.6GHz 1MB L2 Cache w/ an AC Freezer 64 Pro
-4x PC3200 ram - (my son grabbed the tight OCZ while I'm waiting on parts so when I build it will probably be some Kingston Value ram and I'll upgrade it later)
eVGA 512-P2-N573-AR GeForce 7900GTO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OS drive)
-2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3250824AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (storage)
-AuzenTech XMYSTIQUE7.1 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz sound card

 

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It looks like a winner to me. The A8N series are solid boards. I had the A8N-Sli Deluxe and it was a really good board. Nice features too. The one problem I did'nt like was the lack of vcore. The max in bios was 1.55v. Board overvolted a tad to 1.63v so it wasn't too bad.

Running 4 sticks of ram you'll only be able to run in 2T Command rate, not 1T. With the FX you might need a bios update. Other than that I don't see any problems. You'll enjoy that board.

Keep us posted.

 

[JP.MIGRAINE]

Yeah i have to agree , i like the A8N series i have the A8N-SLI Deluxe with a FX55 and it overclocks easy. you will be happy with it.

 

[Dan0512]

Well, you might experience some trouble with some SATA HD's. With my MOBO, once I had installed the OS on my new SATA HD, it wouldn't boot. Turns out you have to change something in the BIOS, I think it's setting ¨large¨ instead of ¨auto¨.

Well, if you experience that problem, that's the way to solve it

And, my board seems to have a bug as well. When I set the memory divider to 266 I believe (one step under 333), it just refuses to boot after 267htt.

Those are all the issues I've had with my board, my 7900GTO is running like a champ as well

dan

 

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Great info guys. Keep it coming

 

[fabulouscoops]

I built an FX-60 rig for a friend with the ASUS A8N-SLI board. The only comment I have is that Asus northbridge cooler fans have a tendency to fail. Asus replaces them with a passive cooler. If you are overclocking, I would suggest looking at a replacement chipset cooler.

 

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Components:

-Athlon 64 FX-55 San Diego 2.6GHz 1MB L2 Cache w/ an AC Freezer 64 Pro
-4x PC3200 ram - (my son grabbed the tight OCZ while I'm waiting on parts so when I build it will probably be some Kingston Value ram and I'll upgrade it later)
eVGA 512-P2-N573-AR GeForce 7900GTO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
-Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (OS drive)
-2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ST3250824AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (storage)
-AuzenTech XMYSTIQUE7.1 7.1 Channels 24-bit 96KHz sound card

What type of PSU and Mobo are you using for this?

 

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I don't remember psu manufacturer at the moment but I think its an Enermax. Mobo is the thread title.

 

[Nebulous]

I never had any problems with the chipset cooler, but it's always good to be ready just incase. Keep a spare

 

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I don't remember psu manufacturer at the moment but I think its an Enermax. Mobo is the thread title.

lol... didn't even notice the thread title!

The reason I'm asking about the PSU is because I'm in the market, and your setup is similar to one I'm looking at - So I was mostly asking for the specs.

 

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I will be upgrading the PSU soon. I just have not looked into it yet but I do plan on having 4 SATAs in there total after I finish all my file transfers and with that beast of a vid card in there I'm thinking somewhere in the 800watt+ range should be just fine.