Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe: NVIDIA Dual x16 for the Athlon 64

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• Zebo - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  LOL

• Live - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  The Techreport writes about overclocking with AMD Cool'n'Quiet here:
  
  They highlight two important bios options:
  
  

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  You can specify the amount that you want to overvolt the processor as a percentage, and the motherboard will supply that much extra voltage consistently as Cool'n'Quiet slides the CPU voltage up and down through its range of possible values.

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  and with regards to memory overclocking:
  
  

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  …because C'n'Q will ramp the processor up to its highest possible multiplier as soon as the system's under load. On my X2 3800+, that would result in a 2.8GHz clock speed and a very nasty crash. The DFI BIOS, however, allows the user to specify a maximum CPU multiplier value for Cool'n'Quiet, neatly solving that problem.

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  Does this board have these options in bios?
  
  As Techreport writes:
  

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  I think they should become a practical requirement for an enthusiast motherboard's BIOS.

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  I must say I agree.
  
  Link: http://techreport.com/etc/2005q4/damagebox/index.x...">http://techreport.com/etc/2005q4/damagebox/index.x...
  

• DieLate - Saturday, November 5, 2005 - link

  Can we get some official info on these questions?
  They're high on my list of features. I was all set to go with the DFI until I saw this review. These features may win me over if the ASUS has them too.

• Live - Monday, November 7, 2005 - link

  It looks like official reply is not going to happen. does anyone know if the Asus A8N SLI;Delux;Premium has this in later bios? If so I would bet this one has it aswell.

• Capt Caveman - Monday, November 7, 2005 - link

  The latest bios for the Asus A8N-Sli Premium came out yesterday and no, it does not have this feature so I doubt the A8N32-Sli Deluxe will have this feature. Not very many overclocker's use CNQ, so I don't think there's a huge demand for this feature unfortunately.

• WobbleWobble - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  I wonder if it's better than the DFI because of the PEG mode Asus implements on its motherboards, which overclocks the videocard.

• Wesley Fink - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  And I disabled "PEG link" mode for our review. Asus has settings in PEG for Auto, Normal, Fast, Faster, and Disabled. We set "Disabled" because we know this trick. Asus suggests using "Faster" for review tests. On the positive side you have that additional performance waiting to be tapped.
  
  We also turn off the overclocks that are enabled when many boards arrive for review. That's the first thing we check.

• psychobriggsy - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  Really nice to see such diligence!

• Capt Caveman - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  Not by 17%

• lopri - Friday, November 4, 2005 - link

  Also, if you're running SLI with 2 dual-slot video cards, where are you supposed to put a sound card, or any PCI card? It seems like the only slot available will be, if it's possible at all, the one above the 2nd video card. Not sure how anyone's gonna be able to use any PCI card with SLI.