Asus mobos

[builderboy]

What's the difference between the asus a8n-deluxe and a8n-premium motherboards except the $1 dollar price difference on newegg.com? Also, do the asus boards have ide controllers for the older hard drives? or is it necessary to buy a new sata hard drive?

[ComputerNut]

Typically the difference between deluxe and premium is that the premium boards have more components (additional SATA ports, USB ports, etc). These boards should still have IDE controllers/connectors. mainly because optical drives have not gone the way of SATA yet. So you can still use IDE drives on the board

HTH

[Freakitchen]

I believe another difference between those two boards is the cooling of the chipset. Whereas the deluxe uses a chipset fan, the Premium uses heatpipe technology connected to a fanless heatsink.

If the price difference between the two really is only $1, go for the Premium.

Freakitchen

[regans cortina]

I believe another difference between those two boards is the cooling of the chipset. Whereas the deluxe uses a chipset fan, the Premium uses heatpipe technology connected to a fanless heatsink.

If the price difference between the two really is only $1, go for the Premium.

Freakitchen


Quite right.
the deluxe board has issues with the chipset cooler, and asus have replaced them with a better fan. even so , i think they have redesigned it by using the heatpipe option on the premium . either way , both are fantastic boards, but id go with the premium if i had to buy one today .

[Cricket]

The Premium uses heat-pipe technology to keep the chipset cool. The Deluxe uses a regular heatsink and fan.

The Premium gives you one PCI-Express X1 slot but the Deluxe gives you two.

There are probably other differences but I didn't bother to go over everything. If you'd like to, here are the ASUS web pages for those motherboards.

A8N-SLI Deluxe (http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=375&l1=3&l2=15&l3=148)

A8N-SLI Premium (http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=539&l1=3&l2=15&l3=148)

:) Cricket

[LaptopExtreme]

I believe the premium has support of the X2 (dual core) + Sempron and the Asus AI Cool-Pipe.