Are the A8N-SLI Premium and A8N32-SLI Deluxe as flawed as some people say?
I am buying a new mainboard in a few days and was set on the A8N32 until i read an article that basically said you can never get your FSB to 1000 and that the bandwidth of the HT on the 32 is deminished from the regular A8N-SLI, they said 16bit to 8bit which means slower communication with the processor which means less processor utilization (ouch??).
article:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/asus-a8n32-sli-deluxe.html
A quick glance through the newegg reviews of the A8N-SLI Premium show'd many reviewers who could not clock their ram higher than 333 (with 400mhz ram of course). This claim was echo'd in technical terms in a review that i have forgot the url of. And the talk of a crappy chipset heatsink and fan?
How can this be? ASUS mainboards handicap both the memory and cpu speeds? That's like death for a mainboard right... yet review sites have asus boards beating everyone else. So what's the deal?
I am buying a new mainboard in a few days and was set on the A8N32 until i read an article that basically said you can never get your FSB to 1000 and that the bandwidth of the HT on the 32 is deminished from the regular A8N-SLI, they said 16bit to 8bit which means slower communication with the processor which means less processor utilization (ouch??).
article:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/asus-a8n32-sli-deluxe.html
A quick glance through the newegg reviews of the A8N-SLI Premium show'd many reviewers who could not clock their ram higher than 333 (with 400mhz ram of course). This claim was echo'd in technical terms in a review that i have forgot the url of. And the talk of a crappy chipset heatsink and fan?
How can this be? ASUS mainboards handicap both the memory and cpu speeds? That's like death for a mainboard right... yet review sites have asus boards beating everyone else. So what's the deal?