Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI Royal

"Performance and Stability go hand in hand with any overclocking adventure. GigaByte has succeeded once again in delivering a platform that provides both. The board is an excellent performer at default clock speeds, and is ready to deliver when we ramp up the front side bus to take our CPU even faster. Posting a 700MHz memory clock speed was more than I expected, and the system was able to hold the clock speed with 100% stability."

"Gigabyte's GA-8N-SLI Royal motherboard is rock solid and provides excellent performance. The motherboard's features, bundled accessories, and included software are the key selling points for this motherboard. The U-Plus DPS is a great tool for dividing the workload among the motherboard MOSFET's, producing less heat. The included Bluetooth adapter is very nice, although I didn't have a use for it. I'm sure it'll come in handy in the future. Overclocking the board was half decent. 250FSB is nothing to break open a bottle of champagne for, since the 925XE chipset could easily hit over 280FSB. Yet, it's still decent for the average overclocker. Lastly, no one can really complain about SLI, right?"

"The Gigabyte 8N-SLI is an excellent all-around performer, and its overclocking capabilities were outstanding."

"...the 8N-SLI is a pretty good performer in all kinds of test. We’re also happy with the board’s packaging- those SATA cables that lock into the port and device are great. Overclocking wasn’t that great on the 8N-SLI even though Gigabyte provided plenty of options."

"Gigabyte’s interpretation of this chipset is very clean and fast with a great deal put into the features of the board, as well as putting the time and effort in for the overclockers as well. Overall we found the board to be a good performer with great futures for the enthusiast market who simply want a more rounded setup than the 8N SLI Quad Royal."