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12:03 PM - March 23, 2005 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: asus, a8n
Topics: CeBIT, Overclocking
Syndication:
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: asus, a8n
Topics: CeBIT, Overclocking
Syndication:
Table of Contents:
A8N-SLI Premium In Detail, Continued
| A8N-SLI Premium (Rev. 1.01) | |
|---|---|
| Platform | socket 939 |
| Northbridge | Nvidia nForce 4 Ultra |
| Southbridge | n/a |
| BIOS | 1001 (02/16/2005) |
| Memory | DDR266 to 500 |
| Interfaces | |
| Connectors | Onboard/Panel |
| USB 2.0 | 4 / 4 |
| IEEE1394/Firewire | 1 / 1 |
| Serial COM Port | none / 1 |
| Parallel LPT Port | 1 / none |
| Game | none / 1 |
| LAN | 2 / none |
| WLAN | none / none |
| SATA | 8 / none |
| Audio analog | 8 / none |
| Audio digital | 2 / none |
| Connectors | Onboard Only |
| PCIe 16x | 2 |
| PCIe 4x | 1 |
| PCIe 1x | 1 |
| PCI | 3 |
| IDE (PATA) | 2 (4 channels) |
| Fan 4 pins (CPU) | 1 |
| Fan 3 pins (System) | 3 |
| Mass Storage Controller | |
| NF4 Ultra | 2x IDE (ATA100)
4x SATA (RAID 0,1,0+1) |
| Silicon Image 3114 CT | 4x SATA (RAID 0,1,0+1, JBOD) |
| LAN | |
| Broadcom Marvell 88E8001 PCIe | 1x 1 Gbit/s LAN |
| Broadcom Marvell 88E1111 PCI | 1x 1 Gbit/s LAN |
| Audio | |
| Realtek ALC850 5.1 | AC97 |
| IEEE1394/Firewire | |
| TSB43AB22A | 2x 1394a (400 Mbit/s) |

These voltage regulator heat sinks are cooled by the CPU fan air flow.

'EZ Plug' needs to be used for all graphics cards that do not come with their own auxiliary power port, such as the GeForce 6600GT. The red LED will flash if the power cable is not inserted.

The board comes with two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, powered by Marvell chips. However, only one of them uses NVIDIA's ActiveArmor firewall.

Eight SATA ports should be more than sufficient.
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