Asus Deluxe A8V Deluxe Desktop Motherboard - VIA K8T800Pro Chipset - Socket PGA-939

Solid board

Strengths: Rock solid board. Very stable with many great features you'd find on a much more expensive board. Easy enough that a beginer can overclock.

Weakness: Serious overclockers wont like because of board limitations.

Overall a great board!! I put two SATA Raptors on it and this baby screams! Haven't had a single crash since I built my system and it's overclocked 10%.

By myoung49 - Oct 22, 2005

Great board. I was able to set it...

Strengths: Optical out built into the motherboard. No real bottlenecks found so far. Hypertransport is simply great.

Weakness: Manual was a little lacking in some of the more advanced features.

Great board. I was able to set it up quickly. I did have to flash the bios in order to for it to pick up my 3200+ processor. I especially like the cool and quite technology that clocks down the processor and cuts the voltage when the processor is not in use to save energy.

By adamgreb - Jan 30, 2005

This motherboard Rocks! The...

Strengths: An Excellent Motherboard. Drivers and Bios all work without a hitch on AMD64 3500 CPU, using Windows XP and Windows XP64. Love it! Good documentation and accessories package, as well. Highly Recommend

Weakness: I have not found any weaknesses with this motherboard. Everything is working as advertised.

This motherboard Rocks! The onboard sound is 6.1 digital Dolby. There are plenty of USB and Firewire ports. There are multiple IDE and SATA hard drive ports. It supports RAID configurations and four Gigabytes of memory. Installation and setup was a breeze. Everything worked correctly from the start. This motherboard is well worth the money.

By christodd1 - Sep 17, 2004

This board is based on the Via...

Strengths: Asus is known for producing quality products, and this board is no exception! Good layout, excellent performance, great features! Features working AGP/PCI locks for overclocking goodness. Runs cool.

Weakness: Advanced Memory options poorly explained in manual (only applies to you if you like tweaking..autodetect works well) there was a compatibility issue with 3400+ cpu's, fixed in 1008 bios.

This board is based on the Via K8T800 Pro chipset, and provides a plethora of features. It is fast and stable and comes with plenty of accessories. If you opt for the wifi@home option, you don't need to buy an access point for your wireless network, because this motherboard can act like one! This board has great overclocking potential, with vcore options from 1.2v all the way up to 1.8v. The bios...
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This board is based on the Via K8T800 Pro chipset, and provides a plethora of features. It is fast and stable and comes with plenty of accessories. If you opt for the wifi@home option, you don't need to buy an access point for your wireless network, because this motherboard can act like one!

This board has great overclocking potential, with vcore options from 1.2v all the way up to 1.8v. The bios also has a large number of options that let you tweak your board to your liking. Although the manual doesn't explain this part very clearly, the information is available elsewhere. Also compared to the rest of the manual, the sparse coverage of the advanced areas is forgivable, because there are options there that, if set incorrectly, could lead to system instability or even failure! (for example..too high vcore could lead to a fried cpu!)

The only obstacle I ran into was the initial incompatbility with the 3400+ processor. (Debugging with this motherboard is super easy! If you plug your speakers in, the board will actually TELL you what's wrong..in my case, "CPU TEST FAILED") The original bios doesn't recognize the 3400+, so after updating to the 1008 bios, everything worked perfectly. A question you might have is how do you update the bios in an unbootable machine? Simple! The AI-Bios lets you load a new bios file from a floppy disk without the need to boot. You can read more about this on various forums. Search for "3400+ a8v incompatibility"

In all, I am completely satisfied with this motherboard. I've been playing with in on and off for the past week and am still being amazed by how much it can do.

By bravotsx - Nov 17, 2004

Used with a 3000BIBOX Winchester...

Strengths: Stable. Easy, glitch-free install/setup. Excellent build quality. Lots of extra fittings/connectors, etc included.

Weakness: None, Except a "less-accessorized" basic edition for a lower price would be nice, but I have no regrets about the price I paid.

Used with a 3000BIBOX Winchester CPU, stock HSF, Rosewill MX4000 video card, 4x512Mb Corsair Value RAM, only one WDJB800 HDD, Antec 3700 case with 2 fans. No SATA, no RAID, NO PROBLEMS! The build worked without a glitch and has been running 9+ hrs/day for 2 months. I used the stock BIOS settings, except I disabled the Intelligent Overclocking and set to NO Overclocking. For a business applic, I...
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Used with a 3000BIBOX Winchester CPU, stock HSF, Rosewill MX4000 video card, 4x512Mb Corsair Value RAM, only one WDJB800 HDD, Antec 3700 case with 2 fans. No SATA, no RAID, NO PROBLEMS!

The build worked without a glitch and has been running 9+ hrs/day for 2 months.

I used the stock BIOS settings, except I disabled the Intelligent Overclocking and set to NO Overclocking. For a business applic, I have no nees for a couple hundred MHZ. On startup, a "warning" or statement says SATA/Raid BIOS is not installed, but I havent messed with it since the PC works great.

I'm happy I havent experienced problems/issues that others have reported, such as re-flashing BIOS for the Winchester CPU, or with SATA/Raid. My next build will probably be with this board, but with the Venice Core CPU.

I've built 5 PCs since Aug 2004, before had never opened a case! This is my 1st ASUS, last build was ASROCK (same company for practical purposes) 880 chipset for Socket A. I think I'm gonna stay with ASUS/ASROCK boards: very high quality, worth paying a little extra.

By undercooker - May 30, 2005