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Albatron K8SLI Motherboard Review
Author: Gabriel Torres and Daniel Barros
Type: Reviews Last Updated: April 4, 2006
Page: 13 of 13
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Conclusions

As you can notice by reading our results there is almost no performance difference between socket 939 motherboards. This occurs because Athlon 64 has an embedded memory controller, so the chipset doesn’t play any drastic role on performance on this platform. The decision on what socket 939 motherboard one should buy must be based on extra features, price and overclocking.

Even though it has few extra features, Albatron K8SLI is a great motherboard, bringing excellent performance and overclocking capacity.

Albatron was corageous to launch a “vanilla” motherboard supporting SLI. The majority of SLI-based motherboards available on the market have tons of features and fancy design, many costing the double the price of K8SLI. And here is the biggest advantage of Albatron K8SLI against its competitors: it is the cheapest SLI motherboard available on the market.

With the money you will save, you can buy a faster CPU, more memory or even a better video card, keeping the same performance of more expensive motherboards.

In order to cost less, Albatron cut the “fat” by cutting the extra features, of course. You won’t find a fancy design, lights, colored cables, countless accessories, Firewire ports, extra LAN port or eight-channel audio.

But honestly: who uses or cares about all those extra features? Do you really care that your motherboard came in a fancy box with holographic effect?

If you want to save money and at the same time buy a motherboard with great performance and outstanding overclocking capacity with SLI support, Albatron K8SLI is the way to go. Its cost/benefit ratio is unbeatable.

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