Just changed to A8N32 SLI. For once, it did some improvements over my Abit Fatality SLI. Here are the findings:

1. Prime stable for my Manchester at 2.4ghz using only 1.44V. With Abit, I had to use 1.55V...yeah yeah... I have a bad cpu chip.

2. The UCCC 2GB kit can now finally run at 270Mhz @ 1T. With Abit, anything above 210/220Mhz, it will need 2T.

3. Becoz of the north bridge, the whole two pci-e slots are pushed down further compared to DFI. So, beware if you plan to run SLI with dual slot coolers and a discrete sound card.

4. The heatpipe solution is really hot unless I have an active fan on the heatsink... it really can cause a hang if you use watercooling and not have an active fan on it.

5. The Vcore limit is not high by default @ 1.55V only. However, you could enable overvolt. I tried setting it earlier on at 1.5 and the voltage went upto 1.6V. DIdn't try harder since 1.44V is all it takes to tame my lousy Manchester.

6. VDimm at 3.2V only. However, most of the Redlines or BH5 based memory are over. Most of the current TCCDs, TCC5 and UCCC doesn't need anywhere more than 2.8 or 2.9Vdimm. As a matter of fact, they do not like extreme voltages.

I do not have an Expert board to test, so I can only benchmark it against my former Abit boards. Please post here if you have further questions on this mobo. And yes, this mofo is expensive; got it at RM960 in Penang.

I supposed so... but right now am just learning the quirks and behaviour of the board. It works well in games but surprisingly it hangs at cpu test in 3dmark06.

Need more time to get to know this board better.

Send me a DFI LP Expert and I will do a review of it compared to my A8N32 SLI.

Yeah, any of these two boards will beat the crap out of Fatality.

Taiko... who didn't listen you ar?

Heheh... well, what I can say Fatality is really cool and stable so far although it doesn't overclock as much as DFI. The front panel with the reset bios feature is the coolest I've seen.

With this Asus, if the CPR doesn't work after a few tries, I need to open the chassis, take out the sound card, the second vga card and then only I can get to access the reset jumper.

Good news with A8N32 SLI is that it enabled my lousy Manchester to 2.6ghz and enabled 1T for my memory. Previously, the Fatality only enabled 2.43ghz and memory at 2T whenever above 215htt.

So what I can say is that this board is really a good board, pretty stable.