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13-03-2006, 10:24 PM
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| Dont buy a Asus a8n-sli deluxe! Hi people, bit of a warning here for anyone thinking of buying the asus a8n-sli deluxe mobo, Dont! It has a faulty chipset fan that will start buzzing after 2-3 months,after that it may fail! I purchased mine here in uk 2nd jan 06 and the dreaded well reported buzzing noise is here. Apparently asus noticed this fault as the premium has a pipe cooler instead of the fan. Asus has even made a bigger, newer fan to replace the standard chipset fan, but people only find this out after reporting the fault. I have always bought asus because of there reliability, and after spending over £1200 on a new system with a bad designed chipset fan on the mobo, which eventually will kill it,I feel obliged to report it and not let anyone else suffer the annoyance.  |
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13-03-2006, 11:11 PM
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| What 'awww'ing news.. I never knew Asus was THAT bad..  Age old news m8, knew that since the stoneage... (at least since Asus deluxe came out) My XPS 16 = fail Good that it RATs into my lab's 1024 node cluster.. |
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13-03-2006, 11:29 PM
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| Originally Posted by sbj ZZZZZZzzzzz.............
Why can't you replace it with a Zalman passive NB sink for £3? |
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13-03-2006, 11:57 PM
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| Sorry to tell you, fan's can and will fail. My NB chip is passively cooled, it stays around 27C, the space that's used up by a fan assembily is much better used for metalic surface area on the NB heatsink.. a dead fan doesn't mean you need to chuck out the whole board. That's like changing your whole pc because you broke your mouse. Originally Posted by Agent 
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14-03-2006, 02:16 AM
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| If the fan was already mounted on the motherboard, then I expect the fan to last for the duration of the motherboard warranty. Simple as that. The end users should not have to pay £3 (+ shipping I imagine) for a heatsink to fix a problem of a motherboard with a valid warranty. It might not be a lot of money, but it's a principle. If they cannot provide fans that last for two years, then they should either provide a few replacement fans, or offer passive cooling in the first place.  |
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14-03-2006, 06:59 AM
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| Again very old news, Asus realsied the problem and shipped out a replacement heatsink thats way quieter than the original. I used the new HSF for months without any trouble, I only went for my Zalman Northbridge cooler in order to go silent. AMD 3700+ San Diego @ 2.8GHz  | Zalman CNPS 9500LED + Arctic Cooling MX-1 | Asus A8N-SLi Deluxe + Zalman Northbridge | 1024MB DDR RAM (2 x 512MB Corsair XMS Pro TwinX) | Leadtek nVidia 6600GT 128MB | Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music | 2x80GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA-II (RAID 0) | Gigabyte 3D Aurora Case | Hiper Type-R 580W Modular | Enermax Ultimate Fan Controller| Microsoft Nautral 4000 | Logitech G5 + fUnc 1030| Ideazon Fang | SpeedLink Medusa 5.1 Surround Headset | Samsung SM913N 19" TFT | Compro DVB-T200"Dell? You get better tech support with a cheese sandwich" |
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14-03-2006, 09:21 AM
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| Originally Posted by TooNice I agree - old news or no - the point is that it seems pretty shoddy and imho asus should have revised the mobo, put a passive sink on it or whatever.
  E8500 - DFI P45 - 4Gb Corsair DHX - 4850 crossfire - X-Fi - water cooled and nice and quiet |
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14-03-2006, 09:27 AM
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| Originally Posted by eUphoria Asus have
 The new fan is different in design in that it is metaillic and is embossed with "ASUS" with air-holes to get air in and out down the sides, whereas, the older varient of the fan was no more than a metal box with a fan in. |
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14-03-2006, 09:38 AM
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| Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN Ah - well that makes sense then
 It did seem strange that a company like asus wouldnt do anything to correct such a widely known fault - I'll say no more E8500 - DFI P45 - 4Gb Corsair DHX - 4850 crossfire - X-Fi - water cooled and nice and quiet |
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14-03-2006, 09:56 AM
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| Indeed Here's an image of the older and newer coolers so you can see the difference   The newer one to the LEFT *doh* is a lot better than the older one, I can personally vouch for that as I've had to swap mine from an older "clicking" one to the newer one Last edited by Lee @ SCAN; 14-03-2006 at 10:03 AM.. |
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