A8V-e Deluxe4 or A8N-E choice

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Lori M. Wilson

Updating old machine and must choose between the subject mainboards.
I request comments and advice on selection.
Thank you,
Seamus J. Wilson
 
I'll trade you an A8V-e Deluxe for an A8N-e, that is when I get my RMA
board back from ASUS. This is the first MB I've had to fight nearly
every subsystem to get it to work. So far only the S/PDIF and Raid have
not been a problem. (I have tried neither). The latest was the lack of
working USB 2.0 and thus the RMA. wLan only worked for admin in XP Pro
SP2 until I switched from ASUS driver to Windows driver and gLan worked
not at all until I got a driver directly from Marvel. Mostly it has
just been a hassle, a very time consuming hassle.

Good luck with what ever you get.

John
 
"Lori M. Wilson" said:
Updating old machine and must choose between the subject mainboards.
I request comments and advice on selection.
Thank you,
Seamus J. Wilson
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A8V-E doesn't support dual core processors, if you were planning
on upgrading in the future. If you only plan on using single
core processors, then it is still a candidate.

http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

A8N-E might make sense if you were on a strict budget. You could
shop around, as there are a number of Ultra boards available.
It is listed on Newegg for $120, and the competition is cheaper.

The A8N-SLI Premium is $173, and even if you never use the second
PCI Express video slot, it would make a nice board. It doesn't
have a chipset fan to wear out, and uses a heatpipe that shares
the cooling air blowing off the CPU fan. (That means not every
after market cooling solution will be a good choice. As long as
there is plenty of "prop wash" from the CPU fan, everything
should be fine. A tower cooler, with a sideways blowing fan,
might not move enough air across the MOSFET heatsink, to do
a good job of cooling the output of the heatpipe. Also, the
heatpipe works best if the motherboard is used in a normal
ATX computer case - there are reports that rotating the board
180 degrees, causes the chipset to run hot. The Asus heatpipe
doesn't seem to have a very good wick in its core.)

I didn't find too many comments about A8N-E here, and there seems
to be some confusion in model numbers, as if some of the Asus
motherboards have different model numbers, depending on what
part of the world you live in.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/search.php

I think I had to sign up here, to use the search engine:

http://forums.pcper.com/search.php
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=396740&highlight=a8n-e

The overclockers live here:
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php

Paul
 
Thank you for the replies.
Lori
Paul said:
A8V-E doesn't support dual core processors, if you were planning
on upgrading in the future. If you only plan on using single
core processors, then it is still a candidate.

http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

A8N-E might make sense if you were on a strict budget. You could
shop around, as there are a number of Ultra boards available.
It is listed on Newegg for $120, and the competition is cheaper.

The A8N-SLI Premium is $173, and even if you never use the second
PCI Express video slot, it would make a nice board. It doesn't
have a chipset fan to wear out, and uses a heatpipe that shares
the cooling air blowing off the CPU fan. (That means not every
after market cooling solution will be a good choice. As long as
there is plenty of "prop wash" from the CPU fan, everything
should be fine. A tower cooler, with a sideways blowing fan,
might not move enough air across the MOSFET heatsink, to do
a good job of cooling the output of the heatpipe. Also, the
heatpipe works best if the motherboard is used in a normal
ATX computer case - there are reports that rotating the board
180 degrees, causes the chipset to run hot. The Asus heatpipe
doesn't seem to have a very good wick in its core.)

I didn't find too many comments about A8N-E here, and there seems
to be some confusion in model numbers, as if some of the Asus
motherboards have different model numbers, depending on what
part of the world you live in.

http://www.abxzone.com/forums/search.php

I think I had to sign up here, to use the search engine:

http://forums.pcper.com/search.php
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=396740&highlight=a8n-e

The overclockers live here:
http://xtremesystems.org/forums/search.php

Paul
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