Opinions on new Asus Mobo??

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I have read a lot of reviews about the NF4 boards on various sites. The review that really stuck in my head was at Anandtech. They stated that the Lanparty was the best board for just about everything, which is pretty much what I have read everywhere else also. The MSI came in second. However, the Asus A8N's were dead last. They said it does not allow you to increase memory voltage over 2.8V, no PCI-e voltage adjustments, no chipset adjustment - only the CPU and Memory up to 2.8

In the benchmarks the Asus boards were the BEST for stock performance, which is great if you don't overclock. However the Asus boards were WORST for overclocking! This really doesn't sound like Asus to me!?

Anyways, Overclocking is very important to me, so this is a must in a pick for a new motherboard. I am not concerned about using SLI at the moment, but it is a possibility in the future. The most important thing is overclocking, running my OCZ Gold VX @ 2-2-2 timings (3.5V), voltage adjustments for chipset, PCI, and CPU, overall performance, and most of all stability!

I was almost 100% set on the DFI Lanparty Ultra-D because of the cost, I was going to mod it for SLI down the road. However I just came across a new Asus board that may be another option - A8N32-SLI. Supposedly it is the only board that supports true 16x / 16x - 32bit SLI and it is also the only board that supports the new CL1 memory! It has voltage adjustments for everything, but I am not sure how high it supports.

Does anyone have any experience with this new board? Its overclocking abilities? Overall performance? Stability? Thanks!

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I just spoke with the columnist over at Anandtech that does all of the reviews of the new motherboards. He said they are doing a review of the board right now. He couldn't tell me all the details, but it seems it is even better than the Intel version they just reviewed!! You have to check that thing out!! The voltage adjustments aren't quite as flexible as the DFI Lanparty, but it uses the new 8-phase power design (Works with the same theory as your air-conditioner) which is able to combine power from different sources making more voltage/less amperage = less heat, more stability, less voltage peaks/dips, better performance! It looks like this board will beat the DFI Lanparty NF4's in overclocking and set new records for the current line of AMD CPU's!

The board also supports True Dual X16 , X16 SLI - Not just a split channel x16/2!! This has shown increases of up to 25% in standard testing! The board also is the first board to support the new CL1 DDR! If you go further into BIOS, the bios has a feature to disable the CPU multiplier lock, allowing further overclocking! It also has an all new "program" in BIOS that self "tweaks" and overclocks your system. It overclocks the system step by step, inch by inch, until it finds the optimal spot!!

So... If you're looking for a new motherboard and want something even better than the Lanparty NF4's, check out this new Asus board! Also check with Anandtech for their new review of this board!