A8N-SLI Deluxe - "Working OK" official list.

[Cy6nUsX1]

I am so looking forward to building my new system with the A8N-SLI Deluxe but all this reading about major headaches is giving me a headache. Is there any good news for me to look forward too?

I got half the parts today. FedEx said they had delivered. I got home to find zilch, not even footprints in the snow from the delivery guy! I panicked. I emailed everyone at FedEx and finally got someone on the phone. They had actually put the boxes inside my detached garage! Whew I was relieved...until I opened up the case box and found that the case was smashed into bits! I hope it's not a sign of things to come. Say it isn't so.

Post your success stories PLEASE!

-Dave
still missing too many parts to list...about a couple of days more to wait.

 

[JonGalt26]

hahaha is there a reason why there havent been any replies to this thread?

 

[tretneo]

Check out my Profile. Very stable system so far.

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tret

 

[Insomniak]

System:

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
2x512 Mushkin Basic Green DDR400
Leadtek GeForce 6600GT PCIe
Western Digital 120GB 7200 RPM IDE
Samsung 52/32/52/16 CDRW/DVDROM Combo
Enermax 460W Whisper II (20 pin connector)


So far, everything has been fine without a hitch. 3Dmark03, Half-Life 2, Several Program Installs, 4 hour Prime95, 100% coverage Memtest all have run without any errors, warnings, etc.

The Mobo does have some niggles...it's PEG Link speed is really a notch higher on each setting than what the BIOS says it is, and a few other minor things, but these are most likely just BIOS issues from green hardware. Remember this technology is very much in its infancy.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with the board. Never had a better one.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Mine works Great!!!

A64 3200+ 306x8.5=2601mhz
2x512 OCZ EL PC3200 platinum rev.2 (DDR333 3-3-3-10 1T)
1 XFX 6600GT 575/1180 (had 2, RMA'd 1)
Thermaltake CL-P0025 silent tower heatpipe
2x 74GB Raptors Raid0
1x 250GB WD 7200rpm
Pioner DVD rom
NEC 3500a DVD-RW
Antec 550 true control


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[Nate7out]

Mine is working great. winxp, A8N-SLI Deluxe, 3000+ A64, 6600GT, 1024MB BH-5. I have seen only one minor issue. I can alt tab out of americas army, but when I try to return by pushing aao taskbar button I get BSOD. Not sure if that is mobo problem or what.

 

[FastEddie]

Currently:

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester W/Zalman 7000B Alu
4x256 Corsair XMS-PC3500 C2
PNY GeForce 6600GT PCIe
2X80gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 ST380817AS S-ATA II Raid0
16x LiteOn Dual Layer Model SOHW-1633S
16x LiteOn DVD-Rom Model SOHD-167T
A-GPB Dual Ceramic fan 500W AP-P4ATX50F12

Went together flawlessly.

 

[vidguru83]

hey fastEddie, I am going to build mines this week, i see you have the Zalman 7000B, i'm also going with that. Do you have any tips on putting it on? My first build by the way.

 

[Tommunist]

Originally posted by: tretneo
Check out my Profile. Very stable system so far.

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tret

2 6800GTs!!!! daim!!! you should buy me a couple since you have the cash to spare

I know I could figure this out myself if I priced out all your parts but since I'm lazy how much did you have to plop down on the MB, proc, ram, gpus, and other cards?

 

[FastEddie]

Originally posted by: vidguru83
hey fastEddie, I am going to build mines this week, i see you have the Zalman 7000B, i'm also going with that. Do you have any tips on putting it on? My first build by the way.

It's a piece of cake installing via the directions that come with it, but use the Zalman backplate, not the Asus. And watch out for the Audigy. I would do the complete build first, to get everything installed and running well----then tackle the Audigy.

 

[tretneo]

hmmm

CPU 925.00
mobo 230.00
Mem 300.00
6800GT 450.00
6800GT 450.00
Audigy 75.00

Probably another 500 or so for the PSU, DVD+-RW, HD and so on.

tret

 

[bap4201]

best fastest most stable, of couse it's an asus, mobo I've ever owned! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

 

[bkzshabbaz]

My setup worked flawlessly. Got everything up and running in a matter of minutes. The only problems I got was finding a Floppy disk to put my Raid drivers on =X

 

[atom519]

Got mine setup and installed no problems at all. Ran into the usual BSOD during overclocking, updated BIOS and have had no probs so far.


A+ would buy again

 

[govern1]

Love this board. I only wish the newer Forceware drivers (71.xx) would work right for me. As long as I stay with the 67.03's, my system is 100% stable. Hardware wise, I think it's outstanding and would definately buy it again as well.

Shawn

Opps, forgot to mention the Maxtor NCQ-enable drives don't quite work right yet. Disable NCQ and all is well. Not bad for a bleeding-edge piece of technology!

 

[dworley]

My A8N-SLI setup has been rock solid!

My only issue has been that HL2 does not display correctly with Widescreen resolution 1600x1050 in SLI mode on my Dell 2005FPW (tried 66.93, 67.02, 70.90 and 71.24). As a workaround I can run fine @ 1280x1024 or swap monitors and run at 1600x1200 on my older Dell 2000FP.

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Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
AMD64 FX55
Thermaltake Big Water cooling kit
1Gig Corsair XMS PC3200C2
Samsung Spinpoint 160gb SATA
Sony USB CDRW/DVD
520Watt OCZ Modstream
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 NX
Klipsch Promedia 4.1
BFG 6800GT OC 2xSLI
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream case
Dell 2005FPW 20" LCD

 

[mofrack]

Mine is up, and is happy so far. Had it up for a little over 48 hours now. Specs in sig.

 

[BigHurt]

mine is up and running fine, not even a glitch during first post.

yayay, now once i decide on a good 120mm fan, and install my thermalright xp-120, i will begin the overclockage...

 

[Tanclearas]

Antec Sonata (Antec TP380W PS)
Asus A8N-SLI-Deluxe w/ Athlon 64 3200+
2200MHz (220 x 10, 4x HTT)
2 x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Rev.2 Performance Series (2.5-3-3-10-1T)
1 x 120GB Seagate 7200.7 w/NCQ (CQ disabled in WinXP)
1 x Leadtek PX6600GT TDH 128MB (550/1100)

I've been running this way for several weeks now with complete stability. The only problems I've encountered are extremely minor.

If I reboot, the system complains about CPU overclocking. I hit delete, exit the BIOS and restart, and everything starts up just fine. I have benchmarked, gamed, and Prime95'd over the last several weeks without any problems at all.

The only other problem I have is enabling command queueing in Windows. This runs the system stable enough that I can complete some benchmarks that show virtually no improvement, but that's about it. With CQ enabled, the system starts behaving badly (lock ups, blue screens, IE crashes).

Overall, my experience with this setup has been amazing. Everything installed without a hitch. I know there's more headroom in the CPU too, and someday I'm sure I'll get around to seeing just how high it'll go. For now, the system runs fast and stable.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: Tommunist

Originally posted by: tretneo
Check out my Profile. Very stable system so far.

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tret

2 6800GTs!!!! daim!!! you should buy me a couple since you have the cash to spare

I know I could figure this out myself if I priced out all your parts but since I'm lazy how much did you have to plop down on the MB, proc, ram, gpus, and other cards?

What else would you get for an SLi system? Two 6600GTs? hahahaha

 

[DVad3r]

Mine seems to be stable now, although I had enough issues with overclocking before this, but a bios update and a few changed settings, everything seems good now.

3200 @ 245x10x1T and 4 in the dram settings. Ram at startup lists as DDR 400, and in CPU z its 245 mhz frequency. Cpu runs @ 2450. Is this a good overclock btw? Is there anything I can change or modify to make it better?

Thanks.

 

[dansonic]

working perfectly so far...

 

[byMaX]

You should be happy, Cy6nUsX1, unless you try to use Audigy 2 ZS, and if you disable almost all of those extra features, if you don't try to overclock over 230-240 with DRAM:FSB=1:1 @1T, and if... you are lucky enough...

 

[robinsj]

Working great so far...

Just trying to get some help with some overclocking this board... Kind of a noob to overclocking, so don't really know where to start.

 

[imported_2x]

I'm doing great with the profile below. Stock performance no overclock yet. Bios 1002.