MB.001 - ASUS A8N-SLI-Deluxe Motherboard

Unlike the Gigabyte motherboard on the same chipset, we can see that the inconvenient placement of SATA connectors right opposite to PCI-E x16 slots is not the case with this motherboard, which allows to use a long video card and all SATA ports are accessible. Besides, the chipset cooler is installed between PCI-E x16 slots, so it does not interfere with long video cards.

The 4-phase switching CPU voltage regulator contains about 15 capacitors.

The motherboard has a COM port (the only port at all!). Motherboard dimensions – 305x245 mm ("wide" ATX, nine-screw mount, all motherboard edges are firmly fixed). The ITE IT8712F-A chip is used to monitor: CPU and memory voltage, +3.3 and +12 V; rpm of two fans; CPU temperature (by the built-in CPU sensor) and motherboard temperature (by the on-board sensor).

A8N-SLI-Deluxe motherboard:

It's based on a chipset from NVIDIA – nForce4 SLI.

• CPU
  • Socket939 for AMD Athlon64/ 64 FX

• Chipset
  • NVIDIA nForce4 SLI MCPs (media and communication processors)
  • Super I/O: ITE IT8712 chip

• Integrated peripheral devices
  • Silicon Image sil3114 controller
  • T.I. IEEE1394b controller
  • Marvell 8053 Gigabit Ethernet controller
  • CICADA8201 Gigabit LAN PHY network chip
  • Realtek ALC850 Audio AC'97 codec

• Memory
  • Type: DDR400/ 333/ 266 -184pin
  • Total capacity of up to 4 GB DDR in four DIMM slots

• I/O ports
  • 8 x Serial ATA (4 X Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s)
  • 2 x UDMA ATA 133/100/66 Bus Master IDE
  • 1 x FDD
  • 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 (supports up to 6 ports)
  • 2 x IEEE 1394b (up to 3 ports are supported)
  • 3 fan headers
  • CD/AUX in
  • 1 x Game/Midi port

• Expansion slots
  • 2 x PCI-Express x16 slots supporting two PCI-Express video cards in SLI mode
  • 2 x PCI-Express x1
  • 3 x PCI slots (PCI 2.3 compatible)

• PS/2 mouse / keyboard
• 2 x RJ45 ports
• 4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
• 1 x LPT port
• Audio connectors (digital)
• Audio (Line-In, -Line-Out, Mic-In)

BIOS in a 4 MB flash memory chip offers the following settings:

• CPU, AGP and DIMM settings
• clock, multiplier, and processor core voltage
• frequency and voltage for PCI-Expess x16
• DIMM frequency and voltage