mercredi 23 novembre 2005, 10:37:10 CET, Lennart Sorensen a écrit : > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:46:34PM +0100, Alexander Nagel wrote: > > Be careful with newer ASUS boards. I have a K8V SE Deluxe and it > > sucks. I don't know for your board. But if ASUS build it with the same > > effort, good night. > > (Problems with BIOS, disk, NIC, etc) Read the ASUS forum > > first. > > My A8V Deluxe runs great. In my experience Asus boards are usually > great, although I have never bought any of the budget boards (which I > consider socket 754 boards to be). I have still not found a reason to > stop buying asus boards for all my machines (I have been doing so for 13 > years now, but if they stop working great for me, I will find something > else. That is how I went from ati to nvidia for videocards 6 years > ago). > > > http://vip.asus.com/forum/bbs.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=A8N-E > > > > Of course probably there are problems with other boards. > > It's just advice. > > Bios problems are common, and some makers will fix them, others won't. > Asus tends to fix them. I won't say they always do, but they do tend > to. > > Certainly people have said on this list in the past that tha A8N-SLI > runs linux for them, and the A8N-E is certainly related to it, so > hopefully it will work similarly. > > Len Sorensen
I run a A8N-E with no problem at all. It has been reported that, on some models, the chipset fan goes noisy. I hadn't time to notice this as I replaced it with a heat sink. -- Sylvain Sauvage
