ASUS A8N-SLI Premium

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium is the latest addition to ASUS mainboard series for the Athlon 64-platform. The mainboard uses nVidia’s nForce4 SLI-chipset but the difference compared to its older brother is the cooling of the northbridge. You could call it an ASUS-version of ABIT Silent OTES where it has chosen to use passive cooling that with the help of heatpipes is cooled of with a small radiator and the CPU-fan. ASUS has called its solution AI Cool-Pipe says it will offer better cooling than heatsink with fans and at the same time be completely quiet.

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium has other than that very similar specifications compared to its precedors and among others the software-based “SLI-selector” which means you don’t have to alter anythin physical on the mainboard to enable/disable SLI. Other specifications can be found below;

Specifications:
– Socket 939 for AMD Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64 CPU/Athlon 64 X2
– Nvidia nForce4 SLI chipset
– FSB 2000/1600 MT/s
– Dual-channel DDR400/333/266
– 2*PCIex16/2*PCIex1/3*PCI slots
– 4*SATA 3Gb/s and 2*ATA133 support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and JBOD
– 4*SATA 1.5Gb/s support RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 5
– 2*Gbit LAN
– 2*1394 ports