Board Revision: 1.02
BIOS Version: 1008
The A8V can be considered another veteran of the Socket 939 market, as it was one of the first boards to reach our test lab about a half a year ago. Like the Abit, the Asus board is based on the K8T800 Pro from VIA.
As we've come to expect from this maker, the concentration is on all things useful and cheap. The board is thus packed with a host of practical overclocking options, as well as an outstanding hardware design. Features include a Gigabit network controller, FireWire, and an additional RAID controller from Promise (2x SATA, 1x UltraATA/133). Asus has been coloring its pin panels for some time now to facilitate cabling.
As usual a parcel of software is included. Inside the box we found Asus Update, a screensaver, PC-Cillin Anti Virus 2002, as well as Personal Firewall from Symantec. The cable set is also more than ample.





- Introduction
- Why Athlon 64?
- Abit AV8-3rd Eye
- Abit µGuruClock
- Albatron K8X890 Pro
- Asus A8V Deluxe
- Asus A8V Deluxe, Continued
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe, Continued
- EPoX EP-9NDA3+
- EPoX EP-9NDA3+, Continued
- Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9 - nForce4 And 1394b
- Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939 - nForce3 And 1394b
- WinFast 755FXK8AA
- MSI K8N Diamond - nForce4 SLI
- MSI K8N Neo2
- Soltek K8TPRO-939
- Soltek K8TPRO-939, Continued
- Test Setup
- OpenGL
- DirectX 8
- Synthetic
- Audio
- Video, Continued
- Video, Continued
- Conclusion
