Asus A8N-SLI Premium

This was possibly the pinnacle of socket 939 technology since it combines two SATA controllers, SLi, huge connectivity, awesome reliability and complete silence into one board. There is no problem with this board overheating thanks to it's heatpipe and heatsink technology. Installation is very easy since any SATA devices are detected by the Windows installation as normal so no additional drivers are needed. The CD has drivers for the chipset which includes two Gigabit Ethernet ports, surround sound and anything else you would need. I run this with an AMD 64 3500 but it will accept the dual core versions too. I am running this board with a ...  Read the complete review

I've had this motherboard for a year now and i'm really impressed - i had my doubts as to whether the passively cooled chipset was a good idea, but even when masively overclocked it still doesn't break 36°. This motherboard is a VERY god overclocking board, i am running an AMD 3700 KAB1E, a stepping renowned for it's overclocking prowess, and this motherboard has taken it from 2.2 GHz to 3.07 GHz, which is the CPU's limit and a 40% overclock. The FSB is on a 54% overclock, set to 307 MHz, which just shows you how much more this motherboard can give - add to the fact that even with such strain on the motherboard it not only never misses a beat but also had more ...  Read the complete review