ASUS Crystal Sound- Enhance speech-centric application like Skype, online game, video conference and recording
Rating: - Good value
This motherboard represents a good value for the dollar. It is being used for a home computer for casual to moderate use. By not pushing the board to its' limits, it is expected to be stable, and perform well for quite a few years The components used in conjunction with it are:- 535 watt power supply, 320 GB HDD, one basic video card, one DVD drive, one ethernet graphics card, and 2 gigabytes RAM; all within an all aluminum case. With two weeks of use under its' belt, the issues have only been minor.
Rating: - HORRIBLE MOTHERBOARD !!!!
I purchased this mobo on november 30 2007 and received it on December 3 2007. The board preformed semi-flawless until May 11 2008 on that day this Asus product died and after nearly 4 months I'm still getting a run around from Asus customer support. I am now on my "FIFTH RMA'ed MOTHERBOARD" and that s*&^%%$#$ doesn't work either. I have replaced EVERYTHING that connects to this board and still it fails. Do yourself a favor and do a google search on this product and find some forums on this product and you will read the same story as mine.I found out too late what type of junk ASUS sells. Run from this board and any other by this company !!!!
Rating: - Good workhorse
There's not a lot to be said about this product that others haven't said before me. I bought it as part of a bundle with the AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0 GHz Processor and think that even if I'd paid full price for both items, I would have gotten a deal.
Asus, as always, thinks of everything. There are tons of converters and documentation but it's all arranged in a manner that even a relative newcomer to at-home computer assembly can follow. The documentation and design never talk down to the user, but do streamline the installation process. It's as if there's an assumption on the manufacturer's part that time is valuable and frustration is not.
The only thing I have to wonder about is the the slogan on the box: "Rock Solid * Heart Touching" -- can someone explain the second part? I would prefer that my electronics don't touch my heart in any way. I just want them to work really well.
Rating: - Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am..
The Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Green nVIDIA Socket Am is an excellent motherboard board. The only downside of this motherboard is that it only has one primary IDE connection, so you have to share the primary IDE connector with the dvd-rom or cd-rom....etc I had to set my hard drive as the master drive and dvd-rom as a slave drive. It does have sata drive connectors for serial ATA hard drives and optical devices with SATA connectors which I currently do not use. Other than that it's an excellent motherboard for the price.
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