
Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/3119
Now that my SLI review has been published I can talk a bit more freely about the issues I encountered over the weekend. ASUS' first revision of the A8N-SLI Deluxe was absolutely horrible, I had all types of stability problems - many more than I ran into with the MSI board I reviewed weeks earlier.
As soon as ASUS learned of my problems they worked on getting me an updated board, but unfortunately it didn't make it to the States from Taiwan until yesterday afternoon. I had struggled the entire weekend to get only about 20% of my benchmarks done on the buggy first sample, but as soon as I got a working board I went to town on benchmarking.
Unfortunately, being tied up with the buggy board all weekend I didn't have a chance to finish up the Half Life 2 CPU scaling tests. I'm down in NC until Saturday for Thanksgiving, so I won't be able to get to it until I get back. If you all still want me to do the article "so long" after Half Life 2's release, I'll gladly invest the time to do it. It's probably a day or two of solid benchmarking to do what I was planning on doing, so just say the word and you'll have it.
I'm a bit on the tired side so I may turn in early (or end up getting up in an hour to get some writing done). It's good to be back in NC but I'll talk more about that tomorrow.
Goodnight folks.