Which mobo

[HungryHippos]

Hi,

I am soon going to be upgrading my Asus A8n-E Ultra to a new mobo because of stability issues and hard drive thrashing I am experiencing, and was just wondering which one to get.

My requirements :

Quiet (passive cooled is best)
Stable - I like to keep my rig nice n rock solid
Overclocks - just a little bit nothing extensive, for example my x2 3800+ at 2.4ghz.

Asus A8n-SLI Premium - looks to be a good mature board, has passive cooling too.
Asus A8R-32 MVP - Quite fancy perhaps going the ATI route this time, dunno what this boards like though
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe - looks like an interesting piece of kit, thoughts?

budget is not an issue between the boards, i'd rather pay more and get a good quality board.

gonna be running an x1800/x1900 GPU and also an audigy 2 ZS so sound quality and onboard gfx don't matter.

At the moment i'm swaying towards the sli premium just because I want something that doesn't need to be messed about with too much besides the occasional bios flash to keep it up to date.

thanks

 

[mj3zero]

Hi,

I am soon going to be upgrading my Asus A8n-E Ultra to a new mobo because of stability issues and hard drive thrashing I am experiencing, and was just wondering which one to get.

My requirements :

Quiet (passive cooled is best)
Stable - I like to keep my rig nice n rock solid
Overclocks - just a little bit nothing extensive, for example my x2 3800+ at 2.4ghz.

Asus A8n-SLI Premium - looks to be a good mature board, has passive cooling too.
Asus A8R-32 MVP - Quite fancy perhaps going the ATI route this time, dunno what this boards like though
Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe - looks like an interesting piece of kit, thoughts?

budget is not an issue between the boards, i'd rather pay more and get a good quality board.

gonna be running an x1800/x1900 GPU and also an audigy 2 ZS so sound quality and onboard gfx don't matter.

At the moment i'm swaying towards the sli premium just because I want something that doesn't need to be messed about with too much besides the occasional bios flash to keep it up to date.

thanks

I went for the A8n32sli-dlx. Got an 1800xt in there and it is a cracking setup. Stable and fast. Only problem I foresee is for those who have a dual backplane vga card and want to use 2 PCI slots. As it is I can only use the bottom one. SLot 2 might be useable but it'd be very tight. The OB sound is pretty weak, but that's a failing of all the NF4 boards. It has all the bells and whistles elsewhere though. Whack your Audigy in slot 3 and you'll be laughing.

For me the best feature is the ooling and lack of noise. 8 phase appears to work and the Coolstack gubbins must do something too.

mj