a7n8x .. ITS NOT REALLY A BAD BOARD!

Ok Look, I have an a7n8x and it's been an awesome board. There are many more people on here who have this board and are pleasantly suprised with it. For all the people on here bashing this board, maybe you got a bad board, nothing is ever perfect. You can go to the store and buy something and it be bad, every manufacturer has a few lemons go out. I would strongly have to suggest that if you're a "newbie", please read up on this board and have knowledge on how to build, properly install and properly configure this board before you attempt it. I have a STRONG feeling that 80-90% of all the problems that people post on here are due to their own fault of somekind. Improper grounding, other products causing problems, using a pci video card on a top of the line board, etc. To all of those people out there reading this and contemplating buying this board, it's a really good board if you KNOW what you're doing, not if you THINK you know what you're doing. To all the people out there that just keep f#*@( with this board, if you f*#&$ with something long enough, it's not gonna work properly, that's just how stuff happens. Stop bashing the board and look at your own faults before you blame the company, chipset, God, Saddam, The French, or anyone else for that fact.

ok ok.. you CAN blame the French, I won't mind

Dh, slight difference is the k7s5a actually DID suck ass at first, later revisions and better qc cleared up all issues though, bravo ecs.

Heatsinks, if you dont overclock, use the <b>STOCK!</b>

I've also built k7s5a boards, and every one of them has worked perfectly. I think there's just some people on here that aren't sure what they're doing and attempt fixes that break stuff even more.

...or some cheap skates that won't by a decent power supply. About a year ago, every other thread in here was about that board, and almost without exception the answer to these peoples problems ended up being getting a properly rated supply.

A guy could end up looking like a genius if all he ever did was open up K7S5A threads and say "get a better power supply". If the person needing the advice heeded this advice, the problems just went away.

This is precisely the case. According to ASUS this is a hot board (meaning awesome demand for it). That means alot of boards and alot of potential problems. Some of the problems stem from overlcocking and others stem from misperception and some of these problems are very legit.

Had this been the horrid board some say it is, we'd have seen many site write ups decrying its' fowlness.