Asus A7S333

THE BAD:
none to report

SUMMARY:
I bought my Asus A7S333 motherboard in May 2003. I choose this model because they had 5 PCI slots and 3 DDR DIMM socket (for Ram), plus a good value price. I knew I will upgrade my PC in the near future. My model comes with the optional Audio connections and Game/Midi port and other option connections. It was easy to flash your BIOS with the Asus instruction page, I did a backup of the original BIOS version and then I upgrade by following the instruction on the screen. It been more than 3 years I have this mother board without any problem. I installed a 512 Ram PC 3200 DDR400 Samsung (backward technologie) above my 2 other ram of 250 MB PC 2700 DDR333 without any problem. Even though my Asus A7S333 board comes with Audio connections, I prefer to have my own sound card for more option, such as Creative software to control more my recording and playback sound (it is a matter of preference).

This motherboard is tough because my power supply unit overheat a few days ago (Aug 2006) due to a faulty case cooling fan. I have to admit I was running my old power supply unit (Thame Star ATX-320) to is max with only 320 Watts. However with the A7S333 CPU Overheat Protection (C.O.P.) from Asus on the motherboard, it power off my computer, and it was able to save all my hardware including my AMD processor. I just had to replace my power supply for a better wattages and quality and my motherboard was back in business.

At today standard, they have much better Asus motherboard, but fewer with 5 PCI slots. You never really appreciate your motherboard until something goes wrong; lucky for C.O.P. my motherboard was protected. It shows how good Asus A7S333 motherboard is with time. I like so much my Asus' motherboard because I still have my old PC with Asus P2L97 motherboard still running great today, and hopefully this A7S333 will last just has long.