A8N32 Deluxe with X-Fi Fatal1ty and SLI

djt · 11-09-2005, 11:12 PM

I just got my A8N32 Deluxe up and running. It’s a tight fit but the sound card has room between the video cards, the slot right above the second PCI Express slot. The heat sink on the X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS just clears the second video card. I ran it for about five hours tonight with out any problems. The Windows installation was completely painless, no problems installing RAID. They are not the best but here are some pics showing the clearance between the sound card and the video cards.

alien resident · 11-09-2005, 11:21 PM

hey I was hoping someone would do this. thank you.

what is your opinion. Is there room for another PCI card or is 1 pushing it. I am thinking what if they come out with the Aegia physics proc card , will there be room for it ?

Now it remains to be seen if the new 7800GT X with the 512mb will have larger cooling solutions and how thats going to work on this board. I really am suprised how they designed this thing with no though toward real estate for the future ..................

JaGWiRE_abx · 11-09-2005, 11:26 PM

Alien resident, I have a mere soundcard and video card, and I already am tight for space. Personally, I think PCI-E other then the 16x slot and 8x for sli should not be on the mobo. I have all these pci express slots I can't use, and are waisting my space. Sheesh, I like future proof as much as the next guy, but nowadays we are ridicolous. I have yet to see any big enough difference to make me go to 64 bit xp, and so much stuff is incompatitable and runs 32 bit it's sad. Ontop of that, I have these slots that even after 2 years of pci-e being on the market (i thnk it's that?) I can't use them.

It appears no sound cards will be pci-e, only stuff like controllers, a tv tuner that was pci-e came out yesturday, but I don't think their would be any quality difference..

*shrugs*

I'de also like a physx card, but will I have space is the question.

Btw, nice wiring, the cables that run near my back fans aer quite hard for me to hide, but I have gotten good airflow by just moving the cables out of the way, doesn't look that grea but it does the job I supose.

djt · 11-09-2005, 11:42 PM

“Is there room for another PCI card or is 1 pushing it.”

If you put a second card in the PCI slot just below the first PCI Express slot, you are going to block the fan on the top video card. I would say adding a second PCI card is going to be pushing it unless the video cards had liquid cooling.

JaGWiRE_abx · 11-09-2005, 11:44 PM

Djt, even with liquid, I would think that the tubes would still block it off.

I have this problem too, and the largest dust magnet appears to be my vpu hsf which is also the poorest one in my system.

oh, and I don't think they think about the customer anymore when they design this board. Get this, my vpu just about touches my chipset fan (not the fan itself, but the plate around it), so I can't change the chipset hsf sadly.

Oh, and my hsf for my cpu covers my ram ^^.

Blue078 · 11-10-2005, 11:10 AM

OK so how do you like the A8N32

??? Tried any OCing yet ?

*polonyc2* · 11-10-2005, 11:22 AM

where did you purchase the A8N32 board from?...I have looked online everywhere and nobody seems to have it available yet...

I'm building a new rig with the A8N32 mobo, 1 GTX 256 video card, a SoundBlaster ExtremeMusic card and a hardware modem---will there be enough space to fit everything in with proper cooling or do I need to get rid of the modem?

djt · 11-10-2005, 12:11 PM

“where did you purchase the A8N32 board from?...”

“Tried any OCing yet ?”

I purchased the board from Newegg before the sold out last week.

I have not tried overclocking yet. It is probably the highest quality motherboard I have owned to date. This board had some heft to it even before I installed the components. I don’t know if I was seeing things or what but it looks like the PCB is thicker. There is also more heat sink/pipes copper than on the Premium so that’s also making it heavier.

fvbounty · 11-10-2005, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polonyc2

where did you purchase the A8N32 board from?...I have looked online everywhere and nobody seems to have it available yet...

I'm building a new rig with the A8N32 mobo, 1 GTX 256 video card, a SoundBlaster ExtremeMusic card and a hardware modem---will there be enough space to fit everything in with proper cooling or do I need to get rid of the modem?

In stock just 20 miles from me for $219...

http://www.centralcomputer.com/itemd...m=MOTASUP5N32R

fvbounty · 11-10-2005, 12:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djt

I just got my A8N32 Deluxe up and running. It’s a tight fit but the sound card has room between the video cards, the slot right above the second PCI Express slot. The heat sink on the X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS just clears the second video card. I ran it for about five hours tonight with out any problems. The Windows installation was completely painless, no problems installing RAID. They are not the best but here are some pics showing the clearance between the sound card and the video cards.

Thanks for the pictures, thats where I thought you would have to put the sound card.....Looks like my case very nice install...

*polonyc2* · 11-10-2005, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fvbounty

In stock just 20 miles from me for $219...

http://www.centralcomputer.com/itemd...m=MOTASUP5N32R

that's the Intel version of the board...that's not the A8N32-SLI Deluxe board

will I have any problems running 1 video card. sound card and modem on this board?...willl there be enough space/cooling?

fvbounty · 11-10-2005, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by polonyc2

that's the Intel version of the board...that's not the A8N32-SLI Deluxe board

will I have any problems running 1 video card. sound card and modem on this board?...willl there be enough space/cooling?

Yea just noticed.....

El Wiseguy · 11-22-2005, 03:35 AM

Thanks for posting the pictures. It really helped me with seeing the space between the PCI slots and the PCI-e slots. hhmmm *thinks about how his setup will be...

I'll post pictures of mine once I get it up.

11-09-2005, 11:21 PM	#2
alien resident a xeno..what ?? Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 2,104	hey I was hoping someone would do this. thank you. what is your opinion. Is there room for another PCI card or is 1 pushing it. I am thinking what if they come out with the Aegia physics proc card , will there be room for it ? Now it remains to be seen if the new 7800GT X with the 512mb will have larger cooling solutions and how thats going to work on this board. I really am suprised how they designed this thing with no though toward real estate for the future .................. __________________ My Rig AMD FX-60 \| Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe \| 2x1Gb Corsair XMS 3500LL Pro \| 2X Asus 7900 GTX in SLI \| OCZ 600W PSU \| Koolance EXOS-1 with CPU-305-V06 Block \| Razer Copperhead Chaos with eXactmat My Laptop USED Alienware Area-51 : Intel P4 1.8 Ghz \| Intel i845M mobo \| 2x512 Corsair \| ATI Mobile 7500 Radeon \| Samsung 100Gb HD \| Dual boot OS : XP Home & Ubuntu Linux \| Razer Diamondback Wife's Rig Intel P4 3.4c @ 3.6 Vcore 1.5625v \| Kingston HyperX 1 Gb (512x2) DDR434 2.5,3,3,7 Vdimm 2.8v \| Gigabyte GA-8KNXP Rev 2.0 FH BIOS \| WIN XP Pro Sp 2 \| Powercolor X800 XT PE \| SB Audigy 2 ZS \| 36Gb Raptors X 2 RAID O 128k Stripe \| Liteon 52X/16X CD/DVD ROM \| Antec True 550W PSU \| MSI Floppy \|
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11-09-2005, 11:26 PM	#3
JaGWiRE_abx Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,912	Alien resident, I have a mere soundcard and video card, and I already am tight for space. Personally, I think PCI-E other then the 16x slot and 8x for sli should not be on the mobo. I have all these pci express slots I can't use, and are waisting my space. Sheesh, I like future proof as much as the next guy, but nowadays we are ridicolous. I have yet to see any big enough difference to make me go to 64 bit xp, and so much stuff is incompatitable and runs 32 bit it's sad. Ontop of that, I have these slots that even after 2 years of pci-e being on the market (i thnk it's that?) I can't use them. It appears no sound cards will be pci-e, only stuff like controllers, a tv tuner that was pci-e came out yesturday, but I don't think their would be any quality difference.. shrugs I'de also like a physx card, but will I have space is the question. Btw, nice wiring, the cables that run near my back fans aer quite hard for me to hide, but I have gotten good airflow by just moving the cables out of the way, doesn't look that grea but it does the job I supose. __________________ DFI LAN PARTY UT NF4, Amd Athlon 3200+ 64 VENICE @ 2.5 ghz (250x4/x10), 1 GB (512x2 in dual channel, 150 divider) OCZ Premier 2.5-3-3-7 @ 2.5-3-3-8, Sapphire Raedon X800XL, Zalman 7700-alcu, OCZ MODSTREAM 450W, Thermaltake Tsunami Silver w/ Window, 1x 250GB WD Sata150 HD, 1x Lite-on DVD-R/RW 1x Pioneer DVD-R/RW, Bios 6-18, Windows XP
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11-09-2005, 11:42 PM	#4
djt Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Yarmouth, MA Posts: 277	“Is there room for another PCI card or is 1 pushing it.” If you put a second card in the PCI slot just below the first PCI Express slot, you are going to block the fan on the top video card. I would say adding a second PCI card is going to be pushing it unless the video cards had liquid cooling. __________________ Asus A8R-MVP/BIOS 0402 Athlon64 FX-57 Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro ATI X1900XTX / X1900 Cross Fire Edition (CF) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 2x WD 36Gb Raptor (RAID 0) Plextor Premium Plextor PX-716A PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW/1000W Cooler Master ATC-110 Windows XP Pro/SP2 Asus A8N32 Deluxe/BIOS 1009 Athlon64 X2 4800+ Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO ACS3 Edition Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 2x WD 74Gb Raptor (RAID 0) 2x Seagate 80Gb (RAID 0) Plextor Premium Plextor PX-716A PC Power and Cooling 510/SLI Silver Stone TJ03 Windows XP Pro/SP2
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11-09-2005, 11:44 PM	#5
JaGWiRE_abx Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,912	Djt, even with liquid, I would think that the tubes would still block it off. I have this problem too, and the largest dust magnet appears to be my vpu hsf which is also the poorest one in my system. oh, and I don't think they think about the customer anymore when they design this board. Get this, my vpu just about touches my chipset fan (not the fan itself, but the plate around it), so I can't change the chipset hsf sadly. Oh, and my hsf for my cpu covers my ram ^^. __________________ DFI LAN PARTY UT NF4, Amd Athlon 3200+ 64 VENICE @ 2.5 ghz (250x4/x10), 1 GB (512x2 in dual channel, 150 divider) OCZ Premier 2.5-3-3-7 @ 2.5-3-3-8, Sapphire Raedon X800XL, Zalman 7700-alcu, OCZ MODSTREAM 450W, Thermaltake Tsunami Silver w/ Window, 1x 250GB WD Sata150 HD, 1x Lite-on DVD-R/RW 1x Pioneer DVD-R/RW, Bios 6-18, Windows XP
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11-10-2005, 11:10 AM	#6
Blue078 BB Stacker Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Dallas TX Posts: 2,391	OK so how do you like the A8N32 ??? Tried any OCing yet ? __________________ DFI SLI-D r.AA0...BIOS 702-2...3700+...7800GTX...2x1g Ballistix..PCP&P 510SLI ...Creative XFi...Promedeia Ultra 5.1's...2005FPW...Cooling by Prometeia and Thermaltake
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11-10-2005, 11:22 AM	#7
polonyc2 Helter Skelter Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 7,444	where did you purchase the A8N32 board from?...I have looked online everywhere and nobody seems to have it available yet... I'm building a new rig with the A8N32 mobo, 1 GTX 256 video card, a SoundBlaster ExtremeMusic card and a hardware modem---will there be enough space to fit everything in with proper cooling or do I need to get rid of the modem? __________________ ASUS Maximus Formula (X38) *** EVGA 8800GT Superclocked 512MB Intel E8400 * Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro G.Skill 4 GB (2 X 2 GB) DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 * Western Digital RE2 500 GB WD5001ABYS Lian Li PC-A70B (black) * Corsair HX620 AuzenTech Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 * Creative Inspire P5800 5.1 speakers Lite-On DVD-RW w/LightScribe LH-20A1L-06 * Sony GDM-F520 21' CRT monitor (19.8' viewable) Vista Business 64-bit w/SP1 * standard 3.5" floppy drive Microsoft Laser Mouse 6000 *** Microsoft Wired Keyboard 500 (Black)
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11-10-2005, 12:11 PM	#8
djt Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Yarmouth, MA Posts: 277	“where did you purchase the A8N32 board from?...” “Tried any OCing yet ?” I purchased the board from Newegg before the sold out last week. I have not tried overclocking yet. It is probably the highest quality motherboard I have owned to date. This board had some heft to it even before I installed the components. I don’t know if I was seeing things or what but it looks like the PCB is thicker. There is also more heat sink/pipes copper than on the Premium so that’s also making it heavier. __________________ Asus A8R-MVP/BIOS 0402 Athlon64 FX-57 Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro ATI X1900XTX / X1900 Cross Fire Edition (CF) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 2x WD 36Gb Raptor (RAID 0) Plextor Premium Plextor PX-716A PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1KW/1000W Cooler Master ATC-110 Windows XP Pro/SP2 Asus A8N32 Deluxe/BIOS 1009 Athlon64 X2 4800+ Corsair TwinX2048Mb-3500LL Pro e-GeForce 7800 GTX KO ACS3 Edition Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS 2x WD 74Gb Raptor (RAID 0) 2x Seagate 80Gb (RAID 0) Plextor Premium Plextor PX-716A PC Power and Cooling 510/SLI Silver Stone TJ03 Windows XP Pro/SP2
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11-22-2005, 03:35 AM	#13
El Wiseguy Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Jackson, Ca Posts: 490	Thanks for posting the pictures. It really helped me with seeing the space between the PCI slots and the PCI-e slots. hhmmm *thinks about how his setup will be... I'll post pictures of mine once I get it up. __________________ There's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people who ask questions.
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