ASUS had made waves previously for the A8N-SLi Deluxe, and now they had came out with an improved model, the ASUS A8N-SLi Premium. Spotting some impressive cooling on the northbridge, this board itself has totally no moving parts to produce noise. On top of it, this board is said to have improved overclocking capabilities, especially with 1T memory settings. Our in-house Overclocking guru, Shamino uses this board, and had recently broken another world record with this board. Take a look here. Priced at $ 315 and could be found at DAT, this is simply a fusion of extreme performance and stability.

The board itself from top down.

A close up on the fanless heatsink that cools both the MOSFETs and the northbridge via a thick heatpipe.

The Marvell Gigabit LAN controller, for 1 of the 2 Gigabit LAN ports.

The Silicon Sil3114 controller, that take charge of 4 SATA ports via the PCI bus.

The other Gigabit LAN controller for the other Gigabit LAN port.

A Texas Instrument Firewire controller on the board.

The rear I/O ports, with a full range of connections.

The A8N-SLI Premium silk screen wordings, and also it's revision number (Rev 1.02). Also, on the bottom right of the picture, those ICs actually take charge of the digital switching of PCIe lanes between the 2 physical PCIe x16 slots. No more card flipping, or loads of jumpers to meddle with.

Quality capacitors are found all over this board, like these pictured, high quality Rubycon ones.

The trademark AI Proactive packaging for the A8N-SLI Premium.