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I wouldn't buy Asus for an AMD system. Asus makes GREAT Intel boards, but somewhat lacking AMD boards. A-bit, Gigabyte, MSI, and DFI are better boards for AMD generally. Out of those I'd go A-bit or MSI, but that's mostly just that I like them better, they've been good to me. The DFI's are better for overclocking and stuff, but I have heard stories of them killing random things. Though that's probably due to the people not the board (ie: people running their CPU at some ungodly voltage and frying it than blaming the board).

That said, I own an Asus A8N-SLI. I didn't research. Had a few problems with the onboard sound, needed a BIOS update to fix that. But over all as a general board, it's fine. Overclocking is where it lacks really. I can only get 2.4 GHz out of my X2 3800+ while others can manage 2.7 or more. And it's not my RAM that's lacking either, the RAM will do 275 MHz (DDR550).

Anyway... I'll stop ranting.