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Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590 SLI AM2 Motherboard Review
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590 SLI AM2 Motherboard Review - PCSTATS
The Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe is one of the first Socket AM2 motherboards to make it into the PCSTATS labs, and it's one motherboard with a lot of expectations attached.
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External Mfg. Website: ASUS Jun 22 2006   C. Sun  
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Motherboard Highlights - CPU / Chipset Cooling

The complex copper fin and dual heat pipe passive Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) and nForce 5 SPP/MCP chipset cooling system of the Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard is shown hovering above the devices it attaches too.

Below, the cooling apparatus removed from the motherboard and flipped over to show the gap filler pads and chipset contact pads. A small squirrel cage fan can be clipped onto one block of copper cooling fins for added airflow if desired. The practical side to a chipset and VRM cooling system like this is silence; the passively cooled copper fins can work with existing system airflow alone.

At the rear IO of the ASUS M2N32SLI Deluxe motherboard we find the external SATA jack (eSATA), coaxial and optical SP/DIF audio outputs, the twin Marvel Gigabit ethernet network connections, Firewire and USB2.0 ports. Adjacent to an additional SATA port shown below (provided by the Silicon Image 3132 controller) is the 4-pin PWM CPU fan header.

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Contents of Article: ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe
 Pg 1.  Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 590 SLI AM2 Motherboard Review
 Pg 2.  The nForce 590 SLI Chipset
 Pg 3.  AMD Athlon64 Socket AM2 Heatsink Considerations
 Pg 4.  — Motherboard Highlights - CPU / Chipset Cooling
 Pg 5.  Motherboard Highlights - Videocards / SATA
 Pg 6.  Overclocking the Asus M2N32-SLI Socket AM2 Motherboard
 Pg 7.  Inside the Powerful ASUS BIOS
 Pg 8.  Prelude to Benchmarks / SYSMark 2004
 Pg 9.  Benchmarks: Office Productivity, SiSoft Sandra, Super Pi
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: PCMark05, 3DMark05
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: 3DMark06, FarCry
 Pg 12.  Benchmarks: X3: Reunion, Doom 3, Quake 4
 Pg 13.  Conclusions on this Socket AM2 Motherboard

 
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