ASUS A8n-e Premium NForce 4

[LrngToFly]

fire inside-

I don't remember the details, but I think I remember that the upcoming Venice core Rev E Athlons (on sale starting April 4th) will have upgraded memory controllers that allow for using more dual channel sticks. You might need to get one of those if you're wanting to use more than 2 dual channel sticks.

here are a couple of threads on Venice / Rev E:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=859000&page=13&pp=20

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=1519380

I'm waiting on Venice and the A8N-E to build myself a new PC. Hopefully both will arrive around the same time!

 

[gate1975mlm]

So what is missing from the A8N-E? To me it looks like there is no firewire and no extra Lan. Is that right? And is there anything else?

 

[LrngToFly]

I don't know if the Premium will have an extra wired LAN port- it is supposed to have Firewire, 802.11g wireless and 4 more RAID SATA ports.

 

[gate1975mlm]

Any released date for the Premium non SLI board? Thats what I really want but I can not wait much longer.

 

[Tiorapatea]

Originally posted by: gate1975mlm
So what is missing from the A8N-E? To me it looks like there is no firewire and no extra Lan. Is that right? And is there anything else?

And only four SATA ports. And no SLI (obviously).

 

[LrngToFly]

> Any released date for the Premium non SLI board? Thats what I really want but I can
> not wait much longer.

I think it's earlier in this thread- I believe an ASUS rep told someone who attended CeBIT and posted here that the A8N-E Premium board was to follow the non Premium by about 6 weeks. So that would put it mid to late April.

 

[afireinsideme]

Originally posted by: Tiorapatea
Can anyone with an A8N-E tell me if there is any indication on the motherboard of a board revision number?

This quote from HardOCP's review of the SLI Deluxe may help you find it:
"The board tested was a version 1.02 product, with the board?s serial number located just under the 24-pin ATX power connector"

To reiterate, I am interested in the serial number of an A8N-E because I want to know if these are likely to be newer board revisions than the SLI Deluxes, which were released earlier.

I got mine from ZZF and it is 2.00 Rev, but thats from under the PCI-Express Video Card. You know how Asus silkscreens "A8N-E rev 2.00" near the PCI slots.

Is there really anything you would need to know about the serial #?

 

[Tiorapatea]

afireinside, That's interesting. If you wouldn't mind double-checking this link at HardOCP, which is a picture of the revision code.

If your's says "Rev 2.00" instead of "Rev 1.02" or "Rev 1.03" then I will assume that you do indeed have a newer board revision with the A8N-E than people have with the SLI version.

That interests me because, while I (or the friend I am building for) would like the extra features of the SLI, I am nervous of the QA issues that Asus has been having and I figure that revision 2.00 has got to be better than Revision 1.02. (Hope springs eternal.)

BTW, anyone know if you can operate a single graphics card from the secondary slot of the SLI board? I would like to fit a Zalman NB47J to the chipset and a VF700-Cu to a Leadtek 6800GT and I think that won't work in the primary slot of the SLI board or on the A8N-E without resorting to seating the NB47J at an angle, which I am reluctant to do. Ok, I will do it but the secondary slot looks like it would give no problems other than losing a PCI slot. Mind you, slots are looking scare these days in spite of on-board everything because of the need to fit in so much extra cooling on everything.

 

[stickybytes]

i so wish this board would come out faster! don't need SLI and the a8n-e would be a perfect fit but it doesn't have firewire or wi-fi.

 

[afireinsideme]

Originally posted by: Tiorapatea
afireinside, That's interesting. If you wouldn't mind double-checking this link at HardOCP, which is a picture of the revision code.

If your's says "Rev 2.00" instead of "Rev 1.02" or "Rev 1.03" then I will assume that you do indeed have a newer board revision with the A8N-E than people have with the SLI version.

That interests me because, while I (or the friend I am building for) would like the extra features of the SLI, I am nervous of the QA issues that Asus has been having and I figure that revision 2.00 has got to be better than Revision 1.02. (Hope springs eternal.)

BTW, anyone know if you can operate a single graphics card from the secondary slot of the SLI board? I would like to fit a Zalman NB47J to the chipset and a VF700-Cu to a Leadtek 6800GT and I think that won't work in the primary slot of the SLI board or on the A8N-E without resorting to seating the NB47J at an angle, which I am reluctant to do. Ok, I will do it but the secondary slot looks like it would give no problems other than losing a PCI slot. Mind you, slots are looking scare these days in spite of on-board everything because of the need to fit in so much extra cooling on everything.

I think the SLI board is set up in a different way. We have to ask the guys and gals who have that board. Do you have a revision number/Model number under the PCI-E slots?

I'm looking at the last memory controller by that 24pin power adapter and don't see anything similuar.

I got my Corsair and i'm running at 2.5 Ghz (295 HTT x 8.5) w/ the 1T memory command only 220 fsb for the memory.

This chipset fan is my only worry now, seems rather annoying, I'll have to see what the SLI guys are doing about it.

 

[Tiorapatea]

Thanks afireinside.

Anyway, your initial tests sound encouraging at 8.5 x 295 and 1T.

On the chipset fan, I am going to go for the NB47J and then create enough airflow over it so that I can overclock. Hopefully the Zalman VF700-Cu will do that job for me on its own but I think I will add a 92/120mm front case intake fan. The pins on the NB47J are easy to bend if needs be (so far I have seen no need for this with either a 6600GT or an ATI card that someone st SPCR was using).

I am going with Crucial 512MB single-sided modules (two of them) and planning on just overclocking the CPU with memory at whatever I can get with 1T (balancing latency and bandwidth). I'm wondering what effect a simple CPU overclock would have on the Northbridge chipset, if running mem at stock DDR400 and HTT below 1000. I am hoping that this won't really heat the chipset but I'll have to see how it goes.

 

[geogecko]

For those of you with the A8N-E, there is a new BIOS version out today (actually yesterday).

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: afireinsideme

I got my Corsair and i'm running at 2.5 Ghz (295 x 8.5) WITH the 1T memory command. I'm testing stability, but I'm under the impression that SLI board had problems booting even with that 1T command above 250 HTT.

This chipset fan is my only worry now, seems rather annoying, I'll have to see what the SLI guys are doing about it.

This looks very promising! Are you running ram 1:1 ie.. DDR400 setting in bios? If so this is a major improvement over the SLI board. The SLI board has no problem with high HTT and 1T, the problem is running memory speed higher than 250mhz with 1T.

And my SLI deluxe board is stamped rev 1.02

As far as the chipset fan, there are several viable options for replacing the fan. There is a big thread here covering the topic, search for chipset fan.

 

[afireinsideme]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy

Originally posted by: afireinsideme

I got my Corsair and i'm running at 2.5 Ghz (295 x 8.5) WITH the 1T memory command. I'm testing stability, but I'm under the impression that SLI board had problems booting even with that 1T command above 250 HTT.

This chipset fan is my only worry now, seems rather annoying, I'll have to see what the SLI guys are doing about it.

This looks very promising! Are you running ram 1:1 ie.. DDR400 setting in bios? If so this is a major improvement over the SLI board. The SLI board has no problem with high HTT and 1T, the problem is running memory speed higher than 250mhz with 1T.

And my SLI deluxe board is stamped rev 1.02

As far as the chipset fan, there are several viable options for replacing the fan. There is a big thread here covering the topic, search for chipset fan.

I updated my post, sorry I miss understood the whole SLI 250 fsb issue. I'm running a Divider right now so my memory is only at around 220 fsb, so the issue could still be there.

I had to reduce my clock speeds down. So i'm at 2.43 GHZ 285 HTT * 8.5 but with a memory divider.

 

[Mari0Br0s]

I've recently emailed ASUS France to ask when the A8N-E Premium will be released.

Here's the answer, followed from the original message:

Bonjour,

Merci de l'attention que vous portez à notre marque ASUS.

Cette carte mère ne sortira pas. C'est un mythe.

Quand nous disons "ne sortira pas", c'est bel et bien au jour d'aujourd'hui.
Nous ne pouvons bien sur pas anticipé l'évolution du progrès.

Merci de votre confiance.

Service Commercial.
ASUS FRANCE
Contact Commercial
E-mail : commercial@asus.fr
Tél : 01.64.73.30.47
Site Web : http://www.asus.fr
Site Notebook : http://notebook.asus.fr



-----Message d'origine-----
De : xxxxxx@videotron.ca [xxxxxx@videotron.ca]
Envoyé : vendredi 25 mars 2005 03:37
À : commercial@asus.fr
Objet : ASUS A8N-E Premium, est-ce un mythe ?

Bonjour, je me demandais si la fameuse A8N-E Premium allait voir le jour
prochainement, ou si ce n'était qu'un mythe. Je recherche exactement une
carte mère socket 939 avec nForce4 Ultra et Wifi intégré. Je n'ai aucunement
besoin du SLI, voilà pourquoi cette carte me conviendrait énormément. De
plus, je n'ai qu'eu des cartes mères ASUS dans mes ordinateurs, et je n'ai
jamais eu aucun problème. Il me la faut absolument!!!!

Merci à l'avance,
Phil

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Translation: "This board is a myth, it'll never come out. When I said "it'll never come out", I meant from what I know at this moment because we cannot anticipate the evolution of technology."

 

[AD2019]

Damn, that's definitly not the answer that Asus France gave me 2 or 3 weeks ago. What's their problem ? They can't give true information ?
Anyway, if it's true, I'm very diappointed about Asus...

And, i'm so happy that a bought the DFI nf4 UT Ultra-D. You guys that look for a good NF4 Ultra mobo should closely look towards the DFI one. Despites lack of Wifi, this board rocks ! Moreover the SmartGuardian bios feature (control the CPU, case AND CHIPSET fan) is very efficient. My system is very quiet (chipset fan run at 3000 RPM).

 

[Mari0Br0s]

I'll just get the ASUS A8N-E & a D-Link DWL-G520 separetly.

 

[jenneth]

So, what's the latest word on this mobo?

 

[geogecko]

Originally posted by: jenneth
So, what's the latest word on this mobo?

A couple posts above should tell you that...

 

[mattburk]

Nice pic of the premium:


http://membres.lycos.fr/soa118/TopicAsusA8N-E/AsusA8N-E.jpg

 

[Tiorapatea]

Originally posted by: mattburk
Nice pic of the premium:

Interesting... Different slot layout, with a better position for the chipset (not underneath the VGA). Shame I can't wait for this.

 

[gate1975mlm]

Originally posted by: mattburk
Nice pic of the premium:


http://membres.lycos.fr/soa118/TopicAsusA8N-E/AsusA8N-E.jpg

Bad News guys!

That photo is old. And when and if the premium does come out It may very well not look like that.

 

[stickybytes]

any new developments on this board?

about the email from the french asus site: how can he call the board a "myth" if there are actual pictures of the board in prototype form? unless the board has been scratched or something but still that doesn't qualify the board as a myth as it has been made just not in mass production.

 

[gate1975mlm]

I don't understand why would Asus not bring out the A8n-e Premium?

 

[cornholio2]

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