Board Revision: 1.02
BIOS Version: 1003 Beta
The A8N-SLI Deluxe is the proud and rightful flagship of the Asus line of Athlon 64 boards. It goes without saying that it features NVIDIA's nForce4-SLI chipset; thus, it offers two x16 PCIe slots, spaced far enough apart to accommodate even graphics cards with monstrous cooling solutions.
The chipset features a sound system, a 1 Gbit network controller, four SATA connectors, two UltraATA/100 channels and a whopping ten USB 2.0 ports. Asus has back-panel connectors for four of them, while the rest require adapters. Also included are a Gigabit Ethernet chip, and a SATA RAID controller from Silicon Image (Sil3114). A FireWire chip from Texas Instruments is also present.
The nForce4 chip sports an active cooler, which we are usually quick to criticize due to their generally high noise level. But the component makes sense here, more for mechanical reasons than for overclocking purposes. Fast graphics cards with extravagant cooling solutions could quickly collide with a huge passive cooling element, so the smaller size of an active cooler is a wise choice.






- 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
