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Asus M3N-HT Deluxe/Mempipe
A Closer Look (continued):
Cooling:
The main feature of this motherboard is its intense cooling. As you can see in the image below, the heat pipes supply heat dispersion for the Southbridge and the Northbridge. Also the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe came with attachable memory heat spreaders. These will attach to two of your memory dimms and secure to the northbridge block where the heat pipes will be joined for superior cooling. Asus claims that the memory module heat spreader design will allow your memory to run ten degrees cooler, which would allow for a higher over clock and better performance.
The memory heat spreaders are optional, and depending on your current memory configuration, you may be unable to use them. The aimed towards costumers who do not have heat spreaders on their memory modules already because they secured directly onto the memory module itself and not onto its heat spreaders. Which, the last time I tried to remove the heat spreaders off a memory module I ended up ripping off one of the memory chips at the same time, ruining my $200 stick of memory. So if you end up using the memory heat spreaders and wish to remove your current heat spreaders BEWARE! Being a fanless design, the passive cooling has the benefit of absolute silence. This to some people is a huge concern. But if you would like the extra cooling that fans provide, a fan is included to be attached to the heat sink for additional cooling. Note that this is a smaller sized fan and is rather quite, but sticking up from the motherboard so much it might be in the way of your CPU Cooler.
Express Gate:
The Express Gate is also another major feature of the Asus M3N-HT Deluxe as it offers the availability to be surfing the internet within FIVE seconds of pressing the power button. It is able to do this, as there is a specialty version of Linux embedded on the motherboard which will allow for instantaneous loading times. With this specialty version of Linux, you are able to surf the internet, be logged into AIM or MSN, and even have video conferencing over Skype. This is all done without entering your Operating System. You don’t even need a hard drive to boot into this version of Linux.
Power Design:
The motherboard uses an eight plus two phase power design. These ten solid aluminum capacitors are used to help provide a solid performance and smooth power. This ultimately enhances the memory performance and helps to ensure there are quick response times and a stable CPU while under heavy loads or even over clocking.
SATA/IDE Ports:
The Asus M3N-HT Deluxe has a total of six SATA 2.0 ports, each with a max of 300MB/s transfer speeds. Each port supports RAID 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOB are controlled by a Marvell 88E6111 raid chip. The board also sports an eSATA connector which also has a max transfer speed of 300MB/s. The motherboard also has a single IDE port for those of us who still use the older Hard Drives / Optical Drives.
Internal Adapters:
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