A8N-SLI Deluxe

Author's Rating:

Pros: Nice board, smooth speed, good hardware extras

Cons: Drivers incomplete, AI NOS buggy, some odd locations for plugins

Author's Review
A top rated board by more than 4 PCgamer style magazine, I bought this board thinking it would be the perfect setup board for my new fangled SLI AMD computer. Installation was easy, but the Fan1 connector is on the farthest bottom right end of the board, making it a far reach. I installed the board and the drivers and found out that the drivers are incomplete, so everytime I load up, windows trys to locate ATK00110 drivers, finds them then tells me i was denied the installation. I have yet to find a cure for this. Next I installed the AIOC program and let it "overclock itself" the thing jumped to 4.6Ghz (its a 2.22 3700+) and locked up and refused to restart and load windows. Had to use the "Boot last know good configuration of windows" to get the computer to run windows again. Had to plug in RJ45 cable into each slot until the computer decided which one it wanted to use. Since the drivers for the Usb wont install correctly the board thinks it has 10 USB 1.0 slots ... and boy are they slow