ASUS A8N-SLI Premium 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: it has lasted 7 years and is still going! i have upgraded everything around a bit at a time, but it is now time for a major rebuild. I love this board. I'm putting it in my girlfriends case for an upgrade for her as I make myself a new asus machine in the same old antec alluminum case. Even after years I can run almost anything I want to. I am a photographer who demands a lot of processing, and this still delivers even without having put the best possible processor in it.

Cons: none at all. I more than got my money out of this board, it doesn't owe me a thing!

Other Thoughts: I can only hope that my next Asus, on the way now, can perform anywhere near as well.

Pros: This board has been rock-solid running 7x24x365 for 7 years!! I bought this in 2005 as a present for myself getting a career. two promotions, 6 bosses, a new house, and 3 different operating systems late, it is still champing!

Cons: Some capacitors exploded and I had to RMA the bard a couple months after I bought it. Newegg service was great, and I had my board back in less than 2 weeks.

Other Thoughts: I have run Windows XP, Windowx XP x64, Ubuntu something or other, and for the past 5 years, Server 2003.

Pros: Still Works! Its' my backup computer now.

Cons: After 3 years a memory slot went out.

Pros: I have not owned this board since Feb 2007, when I sold it for my E6400 and Asus P5B Deluxe. The board is very stable and has a LOT of features. It is a premium board and Asus makes quality components.

The board is very good at overclocking.

Cons: After around a year the northbridge fan failed. I noticed I would get beeps due to the fan speed being too low. If you google "A8N sli fan fail" you will see what I mean; as its a very common problem with the board. The bios would state:

"Warning: Your computer chip fan fail or speed too low
You can also disable this warning message in setup"

I disabled the warning and monitored my temperatures with speedfan to ensure they were not too hot. This was with no overclock and just a stock A64 3200+ Venice cpu. I bought a replacement generic northbridge fan from newegg and that solved the issue.

Other Thoughts: The board served me well before and after replacing the northbridge fan. I was able to overclock my A64 3200+ venice with 2 x 512 mb sticks of DDR 400 mhz Adata generic RAM from stock 2000 mhz to 2600 mhz and run 3DMark 06. I never kept the chip at those speeds for more than a few minutes so that is not the reason the fan failed.

Pros: -AMD
-ASUS
-NVIDIA
-Runs Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 really good
-Lasting longer than my DELL computer's board that was <10 months old and had it's SB fry.
-IT'S NOT DELL!
-Work for me

Cons: It's just not up to "today's standards" like other people prefer.

Other Thoughts: I personally have had this board only for said time. I actually got this board from my cousin that had originally bought it and he had had it for quite some time as well so it is still running strong for it's age.

Pros: I love this board. I had it for 6 years, runing 24/7. but today I got a blue screen of death... RIP my friend. you will be missed.

Cons: none for this board nor for other asus's primium and delux boads. they are great. But I can't say the same for asus's cheaper boards. I had bad experience with them almost made a disbeliever of asus' mother boards.

Other Thoughts: I hope their next generations of mother boards are good as this one.

Pros: i know this board is discontinued..i know 939 socket has gone by the wayside..but this board rocks..i have had it now for close to 4 years and never had a problem..should have called it an a8n sli-timex. when i built with this board. top of line epuipment went in..750watt psu..4 sticks of corsair platnium memory.. fx-57 cpu (changed to dual core a few days ago) 2 7950gt oc's ..no longer a gammer so i sold one off and buy the way, it still works .ran the cpu overclocked at 3.0ghz for the whole time i had it, years. no problems whatsoever. and buy the way my windows xp media center 2005 saw 3 out of the four sticks.

Cons: none, whatsoever

Other Thoughts: had 2 pc's in the house before long and you guessed it..also this board. sold it off to build a quad core...which i sold off to build a 6core and yes, used nothing but asus and never had a problem...an no, i dont work for asus

Pros: Reliable, lots of features and options.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I bought this board in 2006. Took it out at around 2008 when I upgraded my CPU. I literally tossed this motherboard around for 3 years without use. I was shocked when I put it together yesterday and it worked. It is a pleasure to use Asus motherboards

Pros: Reliable, a juggernaught

Cons: If only i could replace the socket type!

Other Thoughts: I have owned and used this board for 6 years, although now discontinued, the motherboard is still going strong and keeping up with all the games that have come out even now in 2011. I will be very sad when the time comes to replace it, only because the processor needs updating.

Thank you ASUS for providing me with a stable MOBO on which i have never had a problem

Pros: Works great....when it works.

Cons: I have had 2 of this exact model die on me after 2-3 months of operation. However, I have had a system with the A8N-SLI Deluxe (no heat piping) going strong for 5 years. What's the deal Asus?

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Please email us at Newegg_ASUS_MBSupport@asus.com listing your system configuration and operating parameters.

Regards
ASUS Customer Support