The A8N-SLI Deluxe is ASUS newest AMD socket 939 Athlon 64 / FX based motherboard. ASUS paired this board with the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset, boasting full support for all Athlon64 socket 939 processors, DDR RAM operating in Dual Channel mode up to speeds of 400MHz officially, as well as PCI Express X16 devices operating in single card or dual card “SLI” mode. As is commonplace, the A8N-SLI is a feature complete solution, needing only a processor, DDR memory, PCI Express video card, drives, and PSU for a fully functioning system.

The A8N-SLI includes the following integrated components: 2 IDE ATA-133 ports and 4 SATA ports (RAID 0, 1, and 0+1 capable) on the NVIDIA RAID controller; 4 SATA ports (RAID 0,1, 0+1, and 5 capable) on the Silicon Image controller; 10 USB 2.0 capable ports (4 in rear panel, and 3 onboard headers supporting 2 ports each); 2 IEEE 1394 capable ports (1 in rear panel, 1 onboard header supporting 1 port); 1 Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet port in rear panel; 1 NVIDIA Gigabit Ethernet port in rear panel; Realtek High Definition 7.1 channel audio codec featuring S/PDIF RCA and optical output ports; and parallel and PS/2 port support.



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