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It's 2013. This is still a good workhorse if you need a basic machine, fileserver or NAS, because it was an absolute BEAST when it came out. Remember that it's an old board now- it is not a platform you will be building on to handle the newest games out there, but if you want to put together a file-crunching monster NAS or workhorse machine to use up the old PCI cards or tie in those firewire drives you have lying around, this veteran can handle it. The board has features you would pay good money for on a new MOBO. At this point I am going to start throwing numbers, so take a breath. Dual core CPU, 2 LAN, 10 USB, 2 firewire, 5 PCI, 10 drives. This is respectable material to work with here. The A8N carries up to 4g of ram and a Socket 939 Athlon64/ 64FX Dual-Core CPU. If you go with max memory and fastest CPU options, you won't be out much money and you still end up with acceptable power for anything a basic file or office machine could ever need. The board's dual LAN has several very good on board defenses: a Hardware Firewall and Active Armor protection against hackers. Need USB? Firewire? The board supports (10)USB 2.0 ports and (2)Firewire. Board slots? A8N offers three standard PCI slots including one PCI Express x16 and 2 PCIe 1X slots. The A8N supports (4)SATAI connections and (2) PATA via its native nVraid, offering RAID0, RAID1, RAID 0+1 and a JBOD span across all the drives. Inside Windows you can see and control your hard disc arrays via the nVraid tool, a user friendly GUI for monitoring and controlling the drives. It also has the ability to let you change out the SATA drives on the fly or hot-swap and rebuild in case of drive failure. Nice, eh? Then it throws in a second Silicon Image 3114R RAID controller with 4 more SATA150 connectors supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, and RAID 5 configurations. That's ten (10) drives. I prefer to use a 32g CF adapter on the PATA drives and load windows off of there; it's crazy fast and you can pick up an adapter for $5 on ebay and scrounge a 32g compact flash for cameras at a yard sale for pocket change nowadays. It's a poor man's SSD, but quite effective as a bombproof fast loader. On-board sound is quite good, using a Realtek ALC850 8-channel CODEC. The manual is extremely user friendly and support is acceptable despite the board being out of production for years.Read full review
This motherboard went into a media server to replace the same model motherboard that failed after many years of use. It was a perfect fit and in excellent condition. This model is solid and easy to work with. That is why I went looking for the same model when it finally died from a power spike. This time, the server is on a UPS.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
As the market changes and diversifies, Asus rolls with the punches with a constantly evolving attitude, one that reflects the current state of events in the PC industry in an effort to stay one-step ahead of the game at all times. As the PC world develops into the dual-core and 64-bit arena Asus has market available products that support these new technologies. If a company makes a worthy chipset, you can be sure Asus will be one of the first, if not the first to implement the new technology into a motherboard design. Our review is a bit on the late side on this one, but we have used the A8N-SLI in many of the other reviews we have done without actually reviewing the board itself. That changes now as we take the time to take an in-depth look at what has made the A8N-SLI Deluxe one of the hottest selling motherboards for the AMD Socket 939 platform. NVIDIA has one of its strongest partners with Asus, and with the nForce4 chipset now dominating over 55% of the entire AMD motherboard market NVIDIA is becoming a serious player in their own right in the chipset business.Read full review
this board along with the other one, the a8n32-sli deluxe, is one of the best s939 boards for its time but unfortunately its affected by the capacitor plague. some boards use these failure prone red-brown kzg caps that bloat even when the board sits unused. they can be recognised by their Y vent on top of the cap. i was one of the lucky ones who got a board that didnt have kzg caps on them. so do be mindful to look out for those red-brown sleeve caps with a Y vent especially if they are bloated!
Verified purchase: No
I use the A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard because it's dummy friendly. It's forgiving of me when I err in flashing a Bios update. Installing hardware is never a problem as you have plenty of info around the net to draw from. The popularity of this MB means there is always someone who's willing to help you with a snafu. I don't know what else to say other then it's just a reliable MB. Thank you.
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