Customer Reviews Of ASUS A8S-X 939 SiS 756 ATX AMD Motherboard

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Customer Reviews for ASUS A8S-X 939 SiS 756 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
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N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week	7/18/2006 9:16:32 PM update Pros: update for mobo temperature, after stress test(16 hour stable cpu temp 3500+ 38 and mb went down from 38 to 34-load idle is 30-32 whoo hoo) Cons: sound didnt become better though same old 2.1 lol Other Thoughts: now this product is 5 eggs. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week	7/15/2006 2:39:36 PM dang good board asus rulz Pros: works, cheap. People read manual update bios in about 20 sec +-1 and stop underrate this board . Its so easy that even my mam did it, and i mean it, she did it. Cons: is it only me or this boartd runs hot?/??////?///? 38 idle bumer, ou ye sound s_x. 2.1 hah its 2006 not 1999 Other Thoughts: sis chipset runs hot and it close to the proc so the proc gets a bit hot 2(32c) b0ard is 38 idle), maybe ill buy some fan on north b. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Noobian12 Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year This user purchased this item from Newegg	7/7/2006 11:50:29 PM Great board Pros: Great board, never had a problem with the bios just booted it up and rang great. Cons: none Other Thoughts: Im using this board in my gaming rig and its been working out great. Definitly buy if your looking to get the most out of your money. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Jimi/a+/ccna Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	6/27/2006 2:32:46 PM black screen Pros: one out of five work Cons: black screen on 2 different pcix16 cards..... asus should've never let this board out to the public Other Thoughts: don't buy this board.spend some extra $$$ and do it right Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	5/9/2006 6:33:03 AM Pros: Great motherboard. I am using it in a server and it is running great. No bios problems as other reported. Cons: None Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Tone Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month	5/6/2006 10:18:58 PM Yes... the bios needs to be updated. Pros: Great motherboard for the price. Yes, the bios has to be flashed to run newer processors (anyone who's read these reviews knows it, so stop with the "ships with bad bios" reviews already!) I'm running this with an AMD 3700+. After flashing the bios, life was sweet. Cons: Yes, like everyone else says... you have to flash the bios (bios + floppy drive + <ALT-F2> at boot = happy. Other Thoughts: Flashing the bios requires a floppy drive. It MUST be hooked to the board (a USB floppy will not work). You can also do it from CD, but don't try it with a CD-RW (or you'll cry). 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day	5/1/2006 8:48:58 PM JUNK Pros: None Cons: Bad Bios Out Of The box, just like the other guys below - Worthless Other Thoughts: Do Not Buy 0 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
rus Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 month to 1 year	4/18/2006 4:32:21 PM not well Pros: well it WORKS . not super good but good. buy a8n5x ! Cons: bios was bad, but was easily fixed . teh problem was in new type of processors in my case, dled new bios and installed it , works well Other Thoughts: NEWBIES SHOULDN'T POST HERE AND ANYWHER , READ ! READ ! READ ! Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Gauge Tech Level: average Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/25/2006 7:22:34 AM Works Great!!! Pros: Works exactly as expected. Onboard sound while not the best is extremly acceptable. Updating the bios was very easy. Cons: Only comes with 1 IDE cable. Other Thoughts: I am running this board with 1 gig of OCZ ram a AMD 64 3200+ and a geforce 6600gt. everything is perfect Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/22/2006 1:26:03 PM Just throw it away Pros: Well, it was shipped as a retail so good on newegg. :) Cons: Extremely bad bios, couldn't get passed a cmos error. Reset cmos many times, nothing happened. Even called tech support, nice people but they didn't to much. Could work really well, but doesn't. DO NOT buy this mother board, spend a little more money on something that does work, even if your budget is tight. Other Thoughts: I thought I would be safe since I don't overclock or do anything to that extent. But of course I was wrong. The MB could be really nice if only they spent more time and a little more money, we could all use it. 0 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
ViperT24 Tech Level: high Ownership: less than 1 day This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/15/2006 3:18:56 PM Pros: Can't really list any pros, because it didn't work at all. Cons: Shipped with a completely defective BIOS, rendering the board useless for anything beyond the initial BIOS screen. I'd accept that, except that Asus tech support was totally useless and I got the impression that they'd rather get rid of me than actually help solve the problem. Other Thoughts: Buy this board at your own risk. It has the potential to be a good product, but if you have a problem with it, forget any support from Asus. Luckily Newegg was far more understanding. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Napoleon TNT Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	3/15/2006 3:03:03 PM What a waste. . . Pros: Its cheap and talks big. Cons: Bad BIOS. . .replaced BIOS. . .after waiting a month . . .still will not turn on. . .most of the time. Bad board, getting RMA'd. Probably get DFI motherboard next time. Other Thoughts: Tried everything. . .bad mobo. . .can't see this one keeping an owner for long. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Iron Padre Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/25/2006 2:10:58 PM A great board Pros: I used this board in building two systems for friends. These boards are the easiest to set up compared with any other Asus MB that I have ever used or built. Cons: None Other Thoughts: Great product that is worth more than what New Egg is selling them for. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
quondam Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/9/2006 9:47:19 PM Great Board Pros: Nice board. Got it with an Athlon X2 4400+, and an XFX 7800GT. I only have 512 MB of RAM, but this thing flies! The only instability I've had is with Steam occasionally crashing. Once I'm in a game, it's all good. FarCry, QuakeIV, and Homeworld 2 run great! Cons: -No SATA II -SIS 182 SATA chipset waiting for Linux distro Unless you happen to like performing Linux voodoo, I suggest you use an IDE drive for Linux, as the amd64 gentoo that I have doesn't have drivers for the controller, and my attempts to compile the kernel module from the source on SiS' website didn't work out. At this point I'm trying to build a kernel with the necessary drivers on my old machine (IDE) to start setting up one of my SATA drives for Linux 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
ECUtech Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month	2/5/2006 8:28:39 PM Save time and Cash Pros: Well installation was a breeze, and it is a fairly decent layout. Cons: it runs all yur pci slots on one irq and wont let you change it the wire for a front audio panel to the onboard must be run under you pci-e grafix card It randomly crashes and reboots closes apps at its own will.... all due to a bad bios or chipset these problems are ascioated only to this board asus still rocks everybody's human and make junk once in a while Other Thoughts: if you round of the egdes it will make a cool looking frizbee? Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
klroy Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	2/3/2006 4:39:16 PM Don't Buy This Board Pros: The Only Pro with board is ease of instillation This is why I gave it a 1 Cons: Bios is unstable I don't Think this board is very Compatible with upper end cpu's. Finally after working with ASUS they decided it hadda be a bad board so sent it back and got a refund Don't buy this board Other Thoughts: My Specs AMD 4400+ 2gbyte adata mem Artic Freezer Fan and Heatsink MSI Diamond Motherboard Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Do not buy Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week	1/20/2006 4:51:12 PM motherboard issues Pros: This motherboard is simple to install somewhat spacious and of course the best part of all it is ASUS Cons: I am a professional computer designer and i have never had a problem with the dozens of ASUS motherboards i have used whether they were 45 or 145 dollars. This motherboard is ridiculous it has a very unstable bios setup and a chipset to match. Other Thoughts: Step up to the nforce 4 chipset in the ASUS line it is one of the best motherboards i have ever used. I gave this three stars because one it is an asus and it has great design, and two because newegg shipped it fast as well as the hundreds of other parts i have ordered from them. 0 out of 7 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Tyler Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month	1/18/2006 12:24:29 PM Solid Board Pros: This is a very straight-forward, easy to install board. It's run like a champ since I got it. Cons: I have no complaints! Other Thoughts: NOTE! This thing only does 6 channel audio through an SPDIF cable. I didn't look at the picture very closely and purchased analog 5.1 speakers, which will not connect to this motherboard! I had to purchase a PCI soundcard, which was cheaper than buying speakers with a built-in digital converter (and I was too lazy to try to return the motherboard.) So, buyer beware on that. 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
kiozar Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/16/2006 12:49:59 PM bad pci slot Pros: it runs till i buy A8N32-SLI Cons: Bad third pci slot either sound card or wirless adpator won't install had to move them to two first ones pci slots .at least they workes.Also my memory 3200 has dergraded to 333 when running windows 64 bit.Grafic card and wirles share the same irq which is not good cousing crashes.Sis raide share the irq as well.good board if you only want to use it to browse the internet not play the games with it . 0 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/15/2006 6:40:38 AM Pros: -Easy Overclocking -3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 1PCI-e x16 slots Cons: -Poor onboard audio Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Loadedaxe Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week	1/14/2006 12:41:19 PM Good for the $ Pros: Cheap, Raid, GB Ethernet, 8X AGP. I got this one because NE was out of NF 3 Ultra Mainboards. Cons: Buggy, no Firewire, only 2 sata connectors, onboard sound crackles. Other Thoughts: Get the Nforce 3 Ultra Chipset if you are wanting to keep the AGP card you have. VIA chipset isnt as good and stable as the Nvidia. Did you find this review helpful? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
beef Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month	1/12/2006 3:19:01 PM good product Pros: good budget mobo Cons: no sata II 0 out of 2 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Lastson Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week	1/4/2006 11:53:46 AM Bad Customer Service on ASUS's part. Pros: Seemed like a good board for the price, and it's an ASUS. Cons: Installed the mother board, had several errors with bios and cmos. ASUS wanted me to pay $20 for over night shipping for the new cmos chip in exchange of their faulty chip that came with the mother board. Other Thoughts: Never had any problems with ASUS boards before, and you think they would me more helpfull with their products. But in the end they told me to send it back to newegg and get another board. I will, but not theirs. 2 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
Anon. Tech Level: somewhat high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	1/2/2006 5:32:09 PM Great Value Pros: For the money, this board is hard to beat. It worked flawlessly from the get go. No, it's not a overclockers board but at this price who cares. The manual is excellent, as usual for ASUS. Cons: None really. It's a good idea to update the BIOS before loading the operating system. Only 1 SATA cable included. I had a spare. Other Thoughts: Support on ASUS website is excellent. This is my 3rd build with an ASUS mobo. I've never had a problem. 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!
N/A Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 week to 1 month This user purchased this item from Newegg	12/31/2005 12:44:43 PM Excellent AMD motherboard Pros: Great board, easy to set up, with good features. Stepless Frequency Selection, RAID, Dual channel, 4GB max memory. Ample slots for expansion cards. Besides the PCI-e x16, it has 3 PCI and 2 PCI-e x1 slots. Comes with a set of very useful utilities. Cons: None for me. Other Thoughts: Built a system from the ground up using this motherboard. Booted up first time, and everthing worked flawlessly. I have had no problems whatsoever since. Having built PC systems before, I couldn't believe how easy this one was compared to the rest. This board is economical, yet has the trusted ASUS quality brand. So far I have taxed this to the max with resulting rock solid stable performance. I've experienced no problems, no instability and no crashes to date. If you want a trusted reliable product with good features, and want to save a chunk of money, this A8S-X motherboard comes highly recommended! 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful. Did you? Thanks for the valuable feedback you provided!